Today marks 17 years since my diagnosis with MS.

It's definitely affecting me a lot. Not only am I barely able to speak (forget singing) and I can't leave a wheelchair much, but my eyes no longer focus together.

Note that It'm not whining It is what it is. If anything I'm angry at it for cooling my mellow.

It won't stop me from existing; it just ( Read more... )

 Good and truly awful singers from  all across the USA and some inspiring background stories too... American Idol 12 has begun.

Like every year I wonder if the really bad ones lost a bet then had to perform.

I PVR'd the shows and watched them today.
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I haven't posted here in months, and my first post back is introspection? Well... we're less than 24 hours away from 2013, so I found it necessary.

2012 had some lows for me... as I spoke of before I had a 3-day hospital stay due to an infection in May. I haven't had to stay in a hospital since I was 1 month-old.

My MS progressed this year. The ( Read more... )

Right now my PVR is recording the vampire film From Dusk Till Dawn on Space: The Imagination Station (like SyFy in the US, except it actually does support Sf, Horror and Fantasy).

It's seen by some as the weakest of Quentin Tarrantino's scripts, but not so by me. I saw it in the cinema when it came out... at first it shocked me. Then, I realized it ( Read more... )

 I haven't been on either Dreamwidth or Livejournal often lately, so readers of those wouldn't notice. My readers on Facebook likely have however...

May 9-12 I was in the Jewish General Hospital here in Montreal. I had an infection that seemed to tire me out on the 8th; by 4 AM on the 9th I woke in bed only able to move enough to press my Lifeline ( Read more... )

 Today is bittersweet: it's  the 2nd anniversary of my baby Squeaky being euthanized, but also the 2nd anniversary of Garfield being here.

Someday I won't mourn Squeaky as much, but not yet.
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 I guess that after so long it's not that important... March 23rd was the 15th Dx Day anniversary.

I show the effect of disability progression, and if asked I'd definitely say, "MS sucks." -- but that's the full extent of my negativity.
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 Pathetic really:

The annual protest against police brutality happened in Montreal this week... and like most years, some protesters rioted, getting arrested for vandalism.

As I said, pathetic.
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 Now I'm sharing it:

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/Coming+coming+home/6223433/story.html 
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 In today's news Davey Jones from The Monkees died. He was 66.

The group started a year before I was born. They are part of my cultural history. I'll miss him.
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