Sun and Moon and Sleep and Sleep
I am tired because I have not had enough sleep. This is, in part, due to my getting so interested in polar madness the other night. It is also, embarrassingly, due to my current addiction to Sudoku. I’m not even good at Sudoku. I just do it sometimes, when I am anxious, which is really all the time, so I wind up doing lots of Sudoku instead of going to sleep.
There’s some interesting news today linking higher rates of MS to people who have had less sun exposure, based on studies done on identical twins. It might not be directly due to the sun. Could be a vitamin D thing. Could be…something else. Anyway, here’s a link to the story.
Are you into MS? I’m sort of into MS. Maybe it was all those read-a-thons I did in grammar school. Maybe it’s because it’s an autoimmune disease, the first one I really ever knew much about. Until my uncle died of scleroderma. But that’s a story for another day.
Okay, a little about scleroderma. It’s an autoimmune connective tissue disease, and literally means “hard skin.” Other autoimmune connective tissue diseases include lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.
My uncle…his esophagus got all hard. Or something like that. Other things happened too. His was a pretty nasty case, and he was dead within two years of being diagnosed.
La la la!
Not all cases of scleroderma are so very bad. Everyone is different. Some people continue to have lives that are, more or less, normal and long. Same goes for lupus, same goes for MS. You just never know. You say tomato, I say your kidneys shut down.
And so it goes.
Feelin’ a little down, it seems, no? Must be that lack o’ sleep.
Bright and sunny…bright and sunny science dose…
I think there’s a lunar eclipse coming up. Lemme go look. Ah yes, there is:
This pic is courtesy of NASA. It appears to be free from the effects of alcohol and/or sabotage.
Please do have a lovely weekend. I’m gonna try to get some good blog pictures taken in the next two days, real scientific-like.
MS, autoimmune, scleroderma, sun, NASA, lunar eclipse
