You can actually see MRI lesion. It's not a disease of fatigue but a neurological disease. The way that I write helps deal with loss of memory. I do a tremendous amount of reading, too. The most important thing is I am fighting back against the disease, I'm going to live, I'm going to function.
Writing is a crucial act of understanding and rebellion.
Short of Iraq, probably in those terms, it's a combination of two things. My daughter is living in Pittsburgh as a graduate student. I talk to her often. When I'm up at night she's always a part of what I'm thinking. I'm doing, what I'm going to do next.