navel research

 

I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2005, though I had been feeling early symptoms since 2003. MS is a disease which has no known cause, and they don't know the cure.

I have found a facebook group called "MS Awareness Everyday" which is a place for people who are affected by MS to share and learn from experiences of other "MSers".

Everyday, an administrator provides a 'Topic of the day" question for people to respond to in order to get conversation begun. Today's question was whether we believe that it is a hereditary condition.

My problem with the question is based on the information I have been given by specialists at several MS centers at several different hospitals. I know that, in the past, when someone died of a disease with such "unknowns" associated with it, the cause of death was often deemed "natural causes" or "complications" due to a known, "pre-existing condition".

Now, who in the world is not in an existing condition at all times? And if a person dies, isn't it always due to some complication of that condition? We may just say that the cause of death was that the person stopped living! Simply by virtue of the pre-existing condition being alive, and the present condition being dead.

As far as the question of heredity is concerned, I have to assume that my living condition is in fact inherited from my parents. Neither on in particular, but both!

I took a philosophy course in college, and I am now faced with another conundrum posed to me as a means of "support".

I'm thinking that, if modern science has no answer to the same question, then mu own navel research will serve only to chase my tail around as I wait for either a cure, or "natural causes" to stop the exercise.

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JFC