Impermanence: The Multiple Sclerosis Master Class

August 26, 2011
Impermanence: The Multiple Sclerosis Master Class

Lately, there are mornings when I wake up and I feel kinda okay – aware of various discomforts in my body, but more or less okay. There are also mornings lately when I wake up and I dread the 15 hours I need to be alive until I get to go to sleep again. Not particularly fond of those mornings. But the funny thing (not funny haha, more like funny-oh-gee-look-at-all-this-rage-inside-me-funny) is that whether it’s a good day or a bad day, it’s neither. Because inevitably, if I’m feeling good I’ll at some point in...

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6,408 Minutes

August 13, 2011
6,408 Minutes

106.8 hours. Or, if you prefer it in minutes, 6,408. Or, about 4 1/2 days straight with no food or pea breaks. That’s how long it takes to watch the entire series of Grey’s Anatomy, beginning with Season 1 Episode 1, and ending with the most recent, Season 7 Episode 22. (And just in case you’re curious, that’s 148 episodes at about 43 minutes and 30 seconds per episode.) I started watching the show the day of my mom’s funeral in late May. I wanted a quality drama that had been on long enough...

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Karen Gordon Interviews Dr. Saud Sadiq

June 2, 2011
Karen Gordon Interviews Dr. Saud Sadiq

A couple weeks ago I had the pleasure of interviewing the highly sought-after internationally acknowledged expert in multiple sclerosis, neurologist Dr. Saud Sadiq. Dr. Sadiq is the director and senior research scientist at the Multiple Sclerosis Research Center of New York, and has won numerous awards for his research and clinical activities. And I discovered after speaking with him that he’s also a really compassionate and kind man. * If you’re on my email list you already know about the interview and you had the opportunity to write in with questions you wanted me...

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