After a 20 year job in rural Alaska, I retired penniless and stopped cutting my hair on July 1, 2004. I became involved with researching my own thesis that bacteria and other pathogens can trigger immune dysfunction in susceptible people. Lyme disease and it coinfection can coat themselves in our own celular material (bio-film) but not perfectly. When Borellia burgdorferi spirochetes strip away myelin cells, they leave scars on our nerves. With the correct set of mutated genes, our immune systems will recognize that the bio-film around the spirochetes is not perfectly structured but is recogizes it as foregin cells even with our own self presenting antigens on its service. The structure is foreign, but made of our own myelin. If your immune system begins prodicing T-cells that attack myelin tissue, you will have many scars (sclera) on your nerves; thus the name Multiple Sclerosis.

I will advance this connection, or if I am unable to move that mountain, I will work on making connections between pharmaceutical corporations to collaborate and share profits which will save hundreds of thousands of people. Collaboration saves lives by putting more great research and reasearches on the same page for the correct purpose. Competition and proprietary rushes to patent and market retards the momentum of research and at the same time causes premature rush for approval by the FDA.

If I can make a dent in any fashion, it will be in the name of my dying wife who was diagnosed with MS, and later with Lyme disease via new procedures not yet approved or even acknowleged by the AMA, or CDC. My wife is a wildlife biologist who was taken out of active life while she was young. She is now only 46 and can only slightly move her head and blink to communicate. She was diagnosed at the age of 23, and in a wheelchair at 24. The course of her disease has been an aggressive chronic progressive degradation. She still has all of her mental abilities and is as sharp as a tack trapped within that body. But with friends visiting her at the nursing home, she still believes that life is a precious thing and well worth clinging to.

 The last gifts I have given was 10 hours with my wife in the nursing home, development of her Facebook, Giving a disabled Tlingit man with long hair a hug, and a kiss to my loving partner.