My MS
by Ian Heydon

Okay, 15yo Laura has a male friend.  Nothing serious, just a male friend – they hang out, go to the movies etc.  Thing is, he’s a drummer.  And a good one.  I watched from above during the recent musical, The Music Man – he mentored three other percussionists and had such gentle hands when he [...]

There is no upside to having MS the disease, but there are upsides to living with MS.  One is that you get to ‘meet’ really interesting people who also have MS, all around the world.  I tell you, life would be so different having MS without the internet.  I am daily contact with MSers who [...]

What’s the difference between Stephen Hawking and O.J. Simpson? Hawking got the electric chair and O.J. walked. I should learn to keep my mouth shut.  I mentioned to a few people recently that I was looking around for a wheelchair and the reaction has been the ‘you poor bugger’ look and, “Oh, I’m sorry things [...]

This story is a shocker.  The lady in the photo is 95, is battling the final stages of leukaemia and suffers from incontinence.  She underwent a blood transfusion to give her the strength to fly from Florida to Michigan last week.  At airport security an officer gave her a ‘pat down’ and found something on [...]

Ladies, have you found yourself the PERFECT man?  I found a bunch of photos from the Cambridge Women’s Pornography Cooperative (Porn for Women) and posted them on the South Pacific Weddings blog (under Categories – The Ideal Man)  – they are quite funny, having some male eye candy doing all the things women fantasise about [...]

I knocked off these two snippets from Peter Fitzsimons ‘Fitz Files’ in the SMH.  Firstly, his Joke of the Week.  I love people who can type an accent! The owner of a small retail business in Atlanta, Georgia, is confused about paying an invoice, so he decides to ask his secretary for some mathematical help. [...]

Recently I was out socially and I bumped into someone I have known for about eight years.  She is a specialist physician and she saw my cane and asked, “What’s happened to you?”  I said I’d been diagnosed with MS and, with tears in her eyes she took me by the shoulders and said, sincerely, [...]

Laura flew to Sydney today for her interview at the US Embassy to get the visa for her six months exchange.  At Brisbane Airport I saw her off from this side of security.  She was a little upset that the belt she was wearing was showing a slight crack and needed trimming.  After she went [...]

One for Kevin in Northern Ireland… Don’t fall off your bike, young man! The pastor asked if anyone in the congregation would like to express praise for answered prayers.  Suzie Smith stood and walked to the podium. She said, “I have a praise. Two months ago, my husband, Tom, had a terrible bicycle wreck and [...]

This has been doing the rounds, so apologies if you have seen it.  Kulula is a South African airline and they make flying fun (inside and outside the plane). Here are some of the reported in-flight announcements. PILOT:  “Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve reached cruising altitude and will be turning down the cabin lights. This is for [...]