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.”
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.
COVID-19: Will there be Christmas?
So, there is nothing wrong with being heartbroken because you can't spend Christmas with your family, but by staying away, you show them how much you love them. You don't want to risk their wellbeing because you rather want to have them around for a good while longer.
Mortality
The superbug that had been staring into my eyes for months seemed long gone. In its wake, it left me wondering. I went through an abyss, one that could resemble Dante's nine circles of hell. That bottom of that abyss had been the morning before the rush into surgery.
