Welcome to all new members! I know; did just do this, but again as we have MORE newbies!

[Guest guest]

Usually, I kick out a fantasy of mine about what our group is about,

and send it flying off to all of us after a large number of new members

have joined.

First, there was the infamous cruise ship, SSMS, which sailed through

the Caribbean, and later past Alaska, with total freedom from MS signs

and symptoms, superb food, fantastic deckchair service, elaborate

banquet in honor of our founder and Fearless Leader, Sharon and of

her daughter, Challis, who co-moderates Our Gang here.

Then I think I had a train ride fantasy and a few others. I am running

out of ideas for the moment. I was just sitting here staring into my

friendly computer, Herkimer II, when my friend, Edna, wMS phoned me.

She pointed out that oddly enough our two MS-ridden brains seem to

become so very creative when working together, yet we each fall apart

when left to our own wicked " Many Surprises " devices.

She said that she not only has periods of forgetfulness, but also has

what she called " Flurries of Forgetfulness, " or as she alsos suggested,

" the Phlurry Phenomenon, " in which one babbles on mindlessly in order

to get all that one can think of out before one forgets it all.

This is embarrassingly accurate in my case, and in hers. But, the point

to all this mindless reminiscing on my part is really just this:

To welcome all of our newcomers to Our Multiply Surprised Gang, and

to thank you for having found us, and once having read some of our posts,

to have dared to take the leap. It's o.k.; we will all be ready to catch you!

Love to each of you, new members, members of longer standing, old-timers,

wherever you are.

n, the truly dense; my MRIs prove it--70 wMS, diagnosed when I was 19