You certainly made my morning! How could I not immediately reply to you soulful lovely letter. And the wonderful Hungarian partial sentence! You outdid yourself! To prove it, here are my comments:
szeretett............beloved (perfect, you even got the double "t" right.) (Without it just would mean "love").
jóakaró.......friend (verbatim benevolent, close enough
)
medikus........medical (actually a nickname for a person whose profession is medicine, it fit well, though).
tanácsadó.........mentor (advicegiver = advisor)
You get a hundred in Hungarian, Becat dear!
Well, I tell you (and others), what happened in the past few months. I looked at the opportunity of lecturing at the International Meeting in Spain as my best opportunity to change the direction of lacrimal research. Since I left academic research the direction slowly changed back to something weird (scientifically). The reason for that was that I invoked other less known disciplines (such as interface science, rheology, tribology, colloid chemistry) and others aiming for power could not continue in that direction. I was not invited for the workshop of the National Eye Institute in 94-95 - poor excuse was that I am not an M.D.) and ever since the science declined. Not only that but the patients were treated worse and worse. (Now after 20 years and several billion dollars later, dry eye patients are treated worse than RLS patients!).
Anyway this Spanish meeting by a society I was a co-founder of in 1984, was an excellent place to start my crusade. I wanted to try out a brain child of mine: to use computer animation to explain difficult scientific concepts that so far were not accepted by the research community.
This was more difficult than I thought. I received no support (only tried a couple of places), and the communication between a young Tenessaen and myself took longer than I had, even during the meeting I spent the night getting stuff from him.
I was also downloaded with organizational things like chairman, session chairman, etc. Jet lag, not sleeping at night, being active during day time finally took its toll on the last day. I did not give my last talk, but the audience were mainly surgeons, so nobody lost much and they were short of time.
I had my son with me for technical and other support. Still right after the meeting we were robbed (more by tricks than force). They mainly wanted my computer but they also took a camera. Both full of stuff of documentary value. Another scientist was also robbed but only for passport, and creditcards.
We took two card keys, both gone with the parking ticket, so we had to rent a car in Dallas (120 miles from my home).
It was tough but we survived it. Had to shut down, change numbers, etc. on many things. Some of my lectures I could recoup and I am working on the others.
I do not know whether I managed to awoke an interest but I am going after the main researchers personally especially at the grass root level.
Now, RLS and depression? Since I managed to mix day an night successfully, that apparently helped RLS and depression (if I even have that). Still I took when remembered Mirapex 0.25 mg a dose as well as Wellbutrin which I cut down to 75 mg 2-3 times a day/night.
I did sense a let-down afterwards (depression?). Fortunately, my wife and daughter are both doing better despite of my tomfoolery. And the work is not lost.
And I now will have some time for my favorite website.
Thank you, Becat for asking contribution to that survey website. It is very much in my plans and I still get request for the first results based on 120 people (California lecture) with the outstanding introduction by you Becat.
At present 136 people filled out the questionnaire on line. I am going to wait a while (hoping for 250) and then assess it.
Sorry for the long story, I was possibly trying to prove that people with RLS can also lead abnormal lives. Some will power is needed, however.
More later Becat, in a private e-mail.
Love and care to all.
] I will try to supplement it with some magnesium and potassium. I can sleep, occasionally with some help, but usually wake up to leg pain which can be dulled by Hydrocodone 10 mg.