A man with cerebral palsy talks about his sex lifeA truly lovely series of images and video of a man with cerebral palsy. The pictures are sensual and erotic ( Read more... )

The information that has filtered through to layman's websites about IBD:

About.com: Smoking, nicotine and IBD. Smokers with Crohn's Disease have worse disease outcomes, but Ulcerative Colitis is a disease of non-smokers and ex-smokers. Needless to say, smoking is still considered to have far worse outcomes than UC, so returning to smoking is ( Read more... )

In The Theatre, by Dannie Abse.

(A true incident)

‘Only a local anaesthetic was given because of the blood pressure problem. The patient, thus, was fully awake throughout the operation. But in those days-in 1938, in Cardiff, when I was Lambert Rogers’ dresser-they could not locate a brain tumour with precision. Too much normal brain tissue was ( Read more... )

Via communicator.

He is a survivor of domestic violence and patron of a British DV charity, Refuge.

Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories are turning me to the dark side. They are the ones that do DIY Cylon Eyes.

The Well Trained Mind. I'm not about to get into it (I have enough on my brain already), but the conversation was fascinating so I'm putting it here so I don't lose the reference.

Regina Holliday and her mural re-the American health care ( Read more... )

I'm now using LJ for linkage. Beats losing everything when the hard drive eventually crashes, no?

Kenya Remix!

And the original: here.

I could watch these for hours, it's quite frightening really.

In the absence of anything else, I refer you to

The Gorilla In Your House.

A brief but worthwhile article about cognitive dysfunction and how it effects people with ME/CFS.Most useful for friends and relatives. If you have ME/CFS it's probably a bit too complicated and/or old news, so you're excused ( Read more... )

If there's one good thing about our house at this time of year it's that the early morning sun streams right into the bedroom window and I only need to prop on pillows to soak it up ( Read more... )