Actually I think all of you should pat yourselves on your backs, just for coping day by day with a chronic illness, whether you're formally diagnosed with MS or not. Kermit the frog said this, in a slightly different context 
: "It ain't easy, bein' green..."
It ain't easy, dealing with a body that isn't working "right", in a whole host of ways, and with a disease that isn't curable, and varies all over the place as to how it can affect you, day by day. Sometimes hour by hour.
Somebody suggested I had a "positive attitude". I don't think of myself as "positive", as much as "stoic". I've got this disease, which is a pain in the butt, and affects me in a myriad of ways. I'm doing what I can to deal with it as best I can. (shooting up the Betaseron, coping with the side effects, dealing with all the other stuff). It's a downer, for sure. But I decided I'm not going to depress everyone around me with it...most folks have enough problems of their own, some severe, some imagined. And it's not like my complaining to them will change anything for me -- only make BOTH of us depressed. So I shut up, most of the time. And the librarian/school-teacher/have-to-learn-all-I-can-about this switch doesn't have an "off switch", so if I find out something, and someone asks, I have to blurt it out. And youse guys are the recipient of that...for better or for worse. And I hope you'll tell me to shut up when you've had enough of me!
My husband and I have been married for 38 years, together for 41...so he knows me pretty well, and generally knows when I'm feeling like....uh...poo. And knows enough to pretty much leave me alone to work it out myself....and knows that, if I DO need help with something, I'll ask. Otherwise, back off!!
Anyway.. You're all kind. But you all deserve accolades yourselves, for having to deal with this poo, too.
Have a good new year, everyone. Life DOES go on, you know. And 2007 is knockin' at the door....
No..wait...that's the UPS guy..... gotta go...