My MS
by Ian Heydon

Ahhh – I just found out why we didn’t get an invitation to the Royal Wedding!  Apparently you need to be a ‘Lord’ or a ‘Lady’ and to find out your regal name you just need to have the first name of one of your grandparents, the name of your first pet and the name [...]

 Aussies love their sport and this weekend Noosa plays host to the Nude Olympics.  In the article (link below), organiser Dean says, “…when we get down to events like the men and women’s ‘best bum’ or the ‘magnificent mums’ we usually have to fight the judges off with a stick because everybody wants to [...]

Yesterday I received an email from Fay, a fellow MS-er who lives in South Africa.  Fay was helping a friend with her family history and she came across a photo of an Australian soldier called Frank Sullivan who served in WWII (right).  On it was written, “To Pimple, Best of all Good Wishes, Frank” and [...]

I have been a fan of Jethro Tull for close on 40 years.  The band is currently on tour in Australia but before heading Down Under, Ian Anderson marked the 50th anniversary of the Yuri Gagarin first manned space flight.  Anderson was in Perm, Russia and he did a Space Flute Duet with NASA Colonel [...]

James went to the now legendary UNSW Round House Toga Party last week (I went to mine in the mid-70’s).  He informs me that there is a university ‘triangle’ – inside the triangle are the instructions, “CHOOSE TWO” and at each point of the triangle, the choices: GOOD GRADES, SOCIAL LIFE, ENOUGH SLEEP.  Hopefully not [...]

I remember as a very young child, standing thigh-high to my father as the sun came up to the sound of the Last Post at the Anzac Memorial in the little town of Gundagai.  And I remember my children, thigh-high to me, doing the same. What a joy this morning to get up at 4:30am [...]

Thanks Beth! ATD -at the doctors. BFF -best friend fell. BTW -bring the wheelchair. BYOT -bring your own teeth. FWIW -forgot where I was. GGPBL – gotta go, pacemaker battery low. GHA -got heartburn again. IMHO -is my hearing aid on. LMDO -laughing my dentures out. OMMR -on my massage recliner. OMSG -oh my! sorry, [...]

There aren’t too many huge upsides to having MS – but one has been ‘meeting’ other people with MS from around the world. One of those is a New Yorker, Marc, who also goes by the name, ‘Wheelchair Kamikaze’.  Here’s a link to his blog and I encourage everyone to read his April 10 post, [...]

Woo-hoo!  Thanks to MS, this year I can hide my own Easter eggs!! Easter’s late this year.  Not only does it coincide with Anzac Day, but there are a couple of anniversaries.  The greatest writer in English, William Shakespeare, died on April 23, 1616.  The greatest writer in Spanish, Miguel de Cervantes, also died on [...]

Update on whether Champix stops smoking.  Probably.  It also has the potential to stop a lot of other things.  Like sleep.  And living.  As prescribed, I took the tablets for six days to give up on Day 7.  At 7:30pm on Day 6, for no reason, I fell asleep at the dining table (never happened [...]