About a dog, vaccines, and a bit of multiple sclerosis
Us human beings, a not-at-all-divinely created homo sapiens breed, take our own reputation in life more seriously than necessary. I suppose we all fall prey to the fallacy of thinking that especially since we’re humans, we get to flatter ourselves on having an exceptional, advanced brain that already gave up all its grey and white matter secrets. Sadly, not so. Like Christopher Hitchens used to say, “We are merely half a chromosome away from chimpanzees, and it shows.”
Something woofin’ is coming!
Stay tuned!
Oh, there’s the dog thing…
You and I will have to overcome certain difficulties, one of which is my perceived view on time, while I know time is a non-existent concept to you. Both of us have body clocks, but that’s about as far as your time management goes.
Non-immunosuppressive people with MS in Ireland not allowed early COVID-19 vaccination?
Disease-modifying treatments try to calm down the inflammation that causes MS by interacting with different parts of the immune system. In other words, immunomodulation is at play. Not being on immunosuppressant treatment for MS therefore does not mean a full or partial absence of MS, and its divide is smaller than its difference as everyone with MS is immune-mediated, regardless of which treatment they are on.
The Paradox of Our Time
We have multiplied our possessions but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We've learned how to make a living, but not a life, we've added years to life not life to years.
At war with COVID-19. And MS!
In some way, we all have COVID-19. It makes us battle with ourselves. It makes us seek answers where there are none. In a similar fashion, it feels as if MS reigns in entire families. You, the broken brain, spinal cord, and optic nerves. Your family, the tragedy of not being able to hand you its cure.
MS, here today, gone tomorrow?
Degeneration happens, yet it forgets to enlighten you in which physical state you will wake up in the morning, and how you will eventually go to sleep at night. If your persistent MS fatigue is anything like mine, powernaps are overrated, and you go for XXX-large naps.
