Dream Dark Stories

Tag: multiple sclerosis

  • A Micro Dusting Reflection #4

    A Micro Dusting of Hope

    News Report: UT Southwestern Medical Center

    Press Release from SoCO Health & Mind

    Gold Nanoparticles, something so innocuous and we’re at the ground floor of this discovery.

    This PRESS RELEASE is about gold nanoparticles reversing the brain deficits in multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease. WOW!! I mean it, as someone diagnosed with multiple sclerosis this is beyond

    d a breakthrough…it’s an opportunity.

    At UT Southwestern Medical Center, a new treatment is being investigated called CNM-Au8. This treatment consists of gold nanocrystals that are curated to improve brain function. That alone is a promise, the mere inclusion of improvement revitalizes something within that wants to fight to see. What is being produced at UT Southwestern is a collection of studies that are showing promise in using CNM-Au8 to treat neurodegenerative diseases. The results from phase two clinical trials showed that CNM-Au8 improved the NAD+/NADH ratio in patients with MS and Parkinson’s disease. This ratio is linked to energy metabolism in the brain, and increasing it may improve function. Patients with Parkinson’s also reported experiencing improved motor function. More studies are needed, but these results are promising.

    We are more than excited here at SoCO Health & Mind to see what discoveries are uncovered next.

    Citation: https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2024/feb-gold-nanoparticles-brain-deficits.html

  • Day Three Hundred, March 2nd, 2025

    Hi-ho and hello

    Reasons. Or an explanation.

    MS or Multiple Sclerosis is a disease that eats away at the protective sheath around the nerves and nerve endings. The immune system eats away at the protective covering of nerves.
    In MS, resulting nerve damage disrupts communication between the brain and the body.

    Multiple sclerosis causes many different symptoms, but for me the ones include pain, fatigue, and impaired coordination. The symptoms, severity, and duration can vary from person to person. Some people may be symptom free most of their lives, while others can have severe chronic symptoms that never go away.

    Now, What they don’t tell you is that it also depends on where the lesions are. Guess where most of mine are?! My brain. My frogging brain!

    So I sit with a collection of doubts, I sit with this disparate solvent that I call luck of the draw and embrace the tumultuous blend of what is.

    But it’s why I’ve been gone for the duration of the last three months. There’s a multitude of reasons but the biggest being something triggered a fear in me, something trickled down my spine and tingled enough to within an urgency that I silenced myself and watched pieces get taken away. Then I noticed these were pieces I needed, pieces I wanted still and use now. But instead of writing my woes and whittling a memory engrained. I silenced myself like Montage muffled his mind, I shut off the engine entirely and just now am starting to regain a kindling that seems resurrecting enough. I guess we’ll see.

    I will tell you this, I dealt with fears that I created myself, errors that were uneeded and let them manifest in their own dark pool of grief and woe and I suffered from that but until now realized I need to let it go. Luckily life is longer than expected and these things should be relieved easily and let go of easier than pie. Whatever that means. I’m out. 

    C’est La Vie

    NOSCE TE IPSUM

    ‘Know Thyself’

  • Day Fifty-Two, February 21st, 2024

    Hi-ho and hello

    I hope your day is going splendid.

    So life am I right? In the past I’ve definitely and likely have mentioned that multiple sclerosis is a pain in the ass, that it’s something that has been making most aspects of my life more annoying, a tad difficult, and time-consuming. A lot more time consuming than I thought given that there needs to be an accountability applied to everything and anything, anything I do. Absolutely encourage accountability, I often talk about that, but it really sucks when the MS is flaring up, I forget, I’m just kind of off, and I do things that are weird.

    And when I say weird, I mean PlayStation controller in the freezer, underwear in the cubby next to my paints, my painting stuff everywhere, I have an art studio. And I still maintain having everything of Art everywhere else but the art studio in my office. It’s ridiculous and it’s nonsensical, and it’s tiring.

    So yeah I have that on the up and up, love that wonderful mountain to deal with every flipping day but now I’m having a new issue, and I knew it would come eventually, just didn’t think it’d be two months after my first infusion.

    My legs aren’t wanting to work the right way my hips don’t want to rotate or gyrate, and it’s making movement painful, making movement quirky, and definitely adding to a worry that I was really hoping would be squashed by now. The thing is when certain things evolve with MS, sometimes you don’t find the issue until it’s later therefore, likely too late to really, truly, get in front of it. I’m hoping the 22nd, bring something a little better. I plan on getting part 2, the rough draft for stuck part 2 finished up by Thursday night. And hopefully I’ll be able to drop that and some more art by the weekend depending on editing. I do still have John’s Memoirs that I’m editing as well. I’m going to go take a break and I’ll talk to you guys tomorrow have a good night.

    C’est la vie

    Have a wonderful good night and a beautiful morning and to those who are waking up I hope you have a blessed morning and a darling good night that tucks you in gently.

    Nosce Te Ipsum