My MS
by Ian Heydon

An Englishman, a Scotsman, an Irishman, a New Zealander, an Australian, a South African, an Indian, a Latvian, a Mexican, a Canadian, an Egyptian, a Finn, a Frenchman, a Swedish chap, a Pakistani, a Serb, a Croatian, a Belgian, an Iranian, a Greek, a Chilean and a Spaniard walk into a bar.  And the barman [...]

In the ‘Kitchen’ section I whacked a recipe for Thai Beef Salad – a simple dish that works with simple timing – another simple one is the old spaghetti bolognaise and I use a recipe that can have the meat simmer away for up to a couple of hours, so the only timing needed is [...]

The serendipity of travel!  My recent journey took me through the NSW town of Glen Innes.  I knew my ancestors were Glen Innes people and that the cemetery had some of them as residents, so I took a detour to see what I could find.  Driving into the cemetery I was faced with a daunting [...]

  “Your Majesty is like a stream of bat’s piss.” “I, um, I, ah, I merely meant, Your Majesty, that, ah, you shine out like a shaft of gold when all around is dark.”’ A tenuous link, granted, (but I am Wilde about Python) – On my recent travels I found myself hospitably accommodated in [...]

I just returned from delivering son, James, and chattels to Sydney for his first year at university.  Over 2000km round trip so spread it over five days and caught up with some old school friends en route, one of whom lives on an ashram at Mangrove Creek.  The gentleman in orange is Swami Kriyatma Saraswati, [...]

Vitamin D is meant to be good for MS.  Vitamin D comes from exposure to the sun.  Exposure to the sun in Australia can be dangerous.  Here’s a link to a calculator that tells you healthy levels of exposure to the sun.  You need to enter the time of day, day, month, latitude & longitude [...]

Hi and welcome to ‘My MS’ – the domain name pretty much says what this blog is about – and the domain ‘someoneelsesms’, although preferable, was too long, too clumsy and not really practical because I don’t really know anyone else with MS.  Yet. I was officially diagnosed with MS in November 2010 and decided [...]