Liquid Gold!

I researched harvesting honey from our backyard beehive without an extractor and was successful in my search for how to's. Ken got home late last night so we didn't start until this morning, and for the first time since we put the hives up, he got stung - but they were defending their home and family so you really can't blame them. Since it is our first year we didn't get a lot of honey, but we got enough to be excited about the future and watching that first little bottle fill up with liquid gold was thrilling to this homebody. Hopefully we'll get enough to share a little with friends and family and christmas - if not this year then next.

On the MS front - I feel pretty darn crappy these days. Read something interesting yesterday - a study about lisiniprol and MS (lisiniprol is the blood pressure medication I take). Says lisiniprol seems to reverse MS paralysis in mice with EAE and this totally explains my reaction when I was pumped with lots of lisiniprol (for my extra high blood pressure) and I told the doctor I felt like he had saved my life and he was confused because he said high blood pressure didn't usually cause that kind of symptoms - which just tells me it was all MS (the exacerbation in february) and the high doses of lisiniprol cut the inflammation enough to give me my life back - because thinking back, I did really feel like I was going to die - I was putting on clean and nice pajamas at night so when they found my dead body I'd look okay - which made Al laugh - as an EMT he said nobody looks at your clothes and nobody looks good when they've recently died. So it all makes sense and I guess it was a happy accident for me. I am bummed that I've seemed to exhausted the ride after my first steroid infusion - it was so nice to feel almost good - I think over the course of the last decade my bar has gotten a lot lower and it doesn't take much to make me happy in the way of physical health - but since I HAVE to do so little, just a little normalcy is all it takes to make me feel happy happy.