We had a FANTASTIC time at the Walk MS this weekend. We will have pictures and a better recap as soon as possible, but we’re still going nuts trying to recover and catch up! It was absolutely one of the most fun walks we’ve ever done, and we were rolling LARGE - I think this was the most team members we’ve ever sported (but we still missed the Turbies, Sebine, Anson and Mac from previous years!). I’ll work hard at getting everyone’s pictures posted to one place, but for now, you can see Becky’s pictures of the Walk here and the pictures of the after-party here. There was also a very nice writeup in our local paper, complete with a great pic!

We also have some pics from the NeenerPalooza (the party before the Walk) to be posted shortly (as soon as we track them down!).

If you’re jealous of the awesome time we had, there’s still plenty of time to get involved - you can still sponsor us, but why not sponsor someone on our new satellite teams? You can choose from Warren, Pa (Team N3RD), Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina (Team N3NC), or our BRAND NEW satellite team, the N3RDCast Queer Division in Chicago!

Thanks to everyone that helped! Oh, and now that we’ve given out our surprise gifts to our mothers, you can also get in on the secret gifts our wonderful friend Jodi made for us: Hope Necklaces. They’re gorgeous, and every necklace purchased also gets a donation towards the MS Society!

The Warhammer Online shirts also netted us over $300, with a matching donation from EA-Mythic! Props all around!

If you’re a Warhammer fangirl (or fanboi wanting to impress/seduce your fangirl) and the bidding has got too feverish for you, fear not! If you sponsor our team, you’ll be entered to win another of the awesome EA Mythic Warhammer Online Staff Shirts!

The drawing will be Saturday, April 12th at 10pm (EST) at the NeenerPalooza, so get your sponsorship in now! Make sure you include a comment about the drawing to ensure you’re entered. I’ll send acknowledgments to everyone that enters! If you’ve already sponsored us and want to be entered into the drawing, just drop me a line.

Thanks to the lovely and generous Sanya for the shirt donation - and SUPER HUGE PROPS to the peeps at Mythic for agreeing to MATCH THE BIDS ON EBAY WITH A DONATION TO OUR TEAM! Yaaay!

If you want to impress your man, why not support a good cause while you do it and bid on these sweet Warhammer Online Staff Shirts?

The lovely Sanya sent me a couple of spiffy EA Mythic shirts to put up for auction to raise money for Team N3RD. Having run the gauntlet that is ebay, I think can safely say I will NEVER EVER EVER DO THAT AGAIN.

Sweet mother of Gord. How is it that ANYONE does ANY listings with them? Given the choice, I think I would rather undergo some ordeal involving fire ants and my privates than try and figure out their ridiculous posting guidelines again. In case you’re wondering why I didn’t list these under their charity works.

In other news, Becky took another fall tonight. It wasn’t quite as nasty as the last time - this time she went head-to-head with the wooden coffee table instead of the cast-iron radiator (she’s learning!). But she’s still going to have one hell of a goose egg on her skull. Just in time to show Ben.

Update: ebay continues to do it’s best to frustrate me. For whatever reason, the shirts aren’t showing up under me; but here is the link to shirt one and shirt two.

Becky stares at me blankly. She is now coherent enough to recognize that I’m fully dressed, my eyes are puffy from sobbing like a motherless child, and she feels a wetness under her that tells her she’s wet the bed.

“What?”

I try again. This is the second time we’ve had this conversation - the first time, she fell back asleep immediately.

“You’ve had a seizure.”

“Are you serious?”

I can’t even answer because I’m fighting back tears, so I merely nod my head. I take a moment to blow my nose and regain my composure and start again.

“While you were sleeping, you slipped into a seizure. I woke up to you thrashing and making noise. I’ve called your mom and the doctor. We’re going to take you to the hospital.”

We’re okay, I tell myself. It was a seizure, and it was scary, but it’s over now, right? No harm done?

And then she looks at me with fear in her eyes. “You’re going to think this is dumb… but what day is it?”

The part of me that was in control throws up his hands and the tears start flowing.

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You’re going to have to forgive me. Normally, every year the MS Walk (or Walk MS, this year) comes around and I write some tear-jerk story about how much of a struggle life is and how we’re doing the best we can.

I can’t do that this year.

It’s not that there haven’t been struggles this year - just last week Becky was bedridden with horrific diarrhea and vomiting that we were both terrified was going to be a relapse that would see her hospitalized again. We spent the night holding each other, trying to be brave and not bawl too loudly. But Becky recovered the next day and was back - if not bounDing, at least bounCing around the house. She was merely going through an “adjustment” as she switched from Beta Seron to Copaxone medications for her MS. But here we are, a week later, and I cannot get into a somber state of mind to write some sad story because Becky had me in tears today, I was laughing so hard.

I can’t imagine you will have much sympathy when I try to tell you how hard it is being in love with a beautiful woman who can make you laugh so hard you get dizzy. There’s not a lot of support groups out there for people like me, I’m afraid. I shall just have to endure!

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