My MS
by Ian Heydon

I decided recently that, if avoidable, there’s not much point in taking prescription drugs that might give a worse side-effect than the perceived benefit.  After all, drugs that muck with the way your brain works must have some negative potential.  Then I thought, what about giving an alternative treatment a try?  I’m not clutching at [...]

Discovered a terrific blog by a fellow MSer, Mitch.  Well, he’s not really a ‘fellow’ MSer in that he has Primary Progressive MS, which is almost an entirely different disease – it’s at the other end of the spectrum, just the other side of ‘total bastard of a disease’.  Mitch’s blog is called Enjoying the Ride [...]

I e-correspond with an expatriate MSer who lives on the Greek island of Lesbos.  Apart from having a beautiful way with words, she’s also handy with a camera.  I love this one of octopus hanging out to dry.  I have to say I’m slightly jealous because Greece holds magical memories for me.  I know that [...]

Poor mice.  A recent study on mice at a university in Barcelona showed that Viagra administered for eight days straight halved the rodents’ MS symptoms.  While this sounds like a double bonus whammy for gents with MS, don’t get you hopes up, or anything else for that matter.  Apparently, to test treatments on mice, they [...]

Here’s a rather cool link.  Laura is part of the TiGAA acting academy and the director often emails the troupe links to things theatrical.  This link goes to a group of instruments – you can click on one or multiple instruments and the soundtracks will work together, and you can do you own ‘mix’ using the [...]

Gordon, a mate who lives in New Zealand, emailed this photo.  There’s no photoshopping here and isn’t it interesting how less concerned the Aussie couple appears, compared to the couple in the back seat?  This is actually part of the lion enclosure at Werribee Open Range Zoo in Victoria.  Look closely where the meat is [...]

Carnation Milk 65 Years Ago… A little old lady from Wisconsin had worked in and around her family dairy farms since she was old enough to walk, with hours of hard work and little compensation. When canned Carnation Milk became available in grocery stores in approximately the 1940s, she read an advertisement offering $5,000 for the best slogan. The producers [...]

Some of you may know of my old mate of some 30 years, Kev Golsby.  I say ‘old’ mate because he is old by some people’s definition!  But he’s one of my friends of whom Laura once asked, “How come Kev hasn’t grown up yet?”  Kev has appeared in many TV shows and movies and has been a [...]

The ‘Sunrise’ weather this morning came from Kensington Public School in Sydney where they attempted to break the world record  for dancing with hula hoops. The school approached local businesses to donate food and coin for the breakfast and all the monetary donations will be going to Multiple Sclerosis charities because this is MS Week. Onya [...]

Today, in a world first, heroes to the multiple sclerosis cause were honoured by Her Excellency the Governor of Queensland, Ms Penelope Wensley AC, at a reception to mark World MS Day. The Office for Research – Griffith University took out the MS Inspiration Award for their work with Gary Allen, diagnosed with MS in [...]