Anyone may develop MS, but as with many diseases there are some patterns. While there are a host of interesting facts to consider about which type of person typically gets this disease, researchers claim mixture of ethnicity and geography impact on the genetic makeup of an individual, coalescing to make “the perfect storm.”

Age does seem to matter generally with MS. Most people with MS are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50. There are, of course, exceptions, but statistically more women than men get MS, almost three times as many, suggesting hormones perhaps play a part in the emergence of MS.

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Are you a Harry Potter fan? If so, this summer has been a Harry Potter extravaganza with a new movie and the release of last book in the series of the boy wizard’s life and tribulations. I saw the movie last weekend and am in the midst of reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Pam took grandson, Arley, this weekend. We found ourselves talking quite a bit about why this tale is so successful and not just with kids. Here are some of our musings.

“People want to believe,” Pam says. “The unexplained intrigues us. I get lost instantly in the tales of magic and the ability to transform everyday life and activities.” I have to agree that the appeal for me is about this universal (or so it seems to me) attraction to power, to control over ourselves and our environments. I don’t mean this in a domineering and negative way, of course, but at a fundamentally human level. We want to create reality to suit us, to alter it if need be to fit our sense of what should happen.

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