My MS
by Ian Heydon

Joke from Dave… Taking a road trip across America, attractive female Siamese twins are sharing a stool in a cocktail bar.  A man chats them up, one thing leads to another and they end up back at his place.  He focuses all his attention on one of the twins, makes passionate love to her and, [...]

MS Readathon happens in schools around Australia for 30 days in June and July.  It’s great that Fairholme College (where Annie teaches and Laura attends) is signing up this year to raise money (and awareness) for MS.  Here’s an interesting thing about reading: Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht [...]

Loss of memory is something that can happen to people with MS.  I used to be able to ‘memorise’ a pack of playing cards.  It’s not actually a memory thing as such – there is a trick.  It was taught to me by former Australian Memory Champion, Russell Bauer.  There are basically three steps. Step [...]

From my mate, Dave… A bloke out for his morning walk and he passes a cemetery where there’s a man, who looks like he might have MS, standing the other side of a headstone.  The bloke yells out, “Morning…” and the man replies, “Nope, just needed a pee.”

I don’t think Rod turned up.  (you see, … “Rod and thy staff…” oh, I amuse myself sometimes!)  The other half, Annie, is a teacher.  That’s her hiding the pleasure of getting her Masters degree.  As I mention in The Kitchen section above, Annie’s a good cook but she doesn’t enjoy the experience, and I’m [...]

I occasionally drop into an online MS forum.  Last night, Nicol, an ex-journalist from Canada, mentioned that he loves Blues music, especially Joe Bonamassa (he was put onto Joe by an English guy with MS).  An old (well, age is relative really!) school friend of mine, Rick Mellick (pictured), plays keyboard in Joe’s band.  I [...]

Good friend, Robyn Moore, has one of Australia’s best known voices (she has a lot of them!) and one of her best-known and loved is Blinky Bill.  Robyn is the National Patron of Make-A-Wish Australia, a volunteer wish-granter and is a ‘Laugh Chief’ for the new campaign, “Laugh For Kids”.  Robyn knows from personal experience [...]

Kay, a lovely MS spouse, sent me this giggle… Last week, a passenger in a taxi heading for Roma Street station leaned over to ask the driver a question and gently tapped him on the shoulder to get his attention.  The driver screamed, lost control of the cab, nearly hit a bus, drove up over the curb, narrowly [...]

Well!  I found out today what my weekly Avonex injection is made from – Chinese hamster ovaries!  I guess pharmacy is similar to butchery – you should never ask what goes into a sausage. I wonder if my nose will start to twitch and I start growing fur in unexpected places! In case you’re wondering [...]

My friend, Dave, rang this morning and told me he’d just come from seeing his doctor and that he was told that he had the ‘Big C’. “Oh mate,” I said, “Cancer?” He replied, “No.  Dyslexia.” I mentioned I had plumbers in today trying to locate a leaking pipe.  Dave said he arrived home last week to [...]