About Vikings, Vitamin D and multiple sclerosis!
So, how do you feel about your MS? The biggest joke of your life? A royal pain in a less magnificent backside? Or, just something to be had, whether you like it or not, and that includes the big bag of medicines and vitamins you pick up from your pharmacy every four weeks?
The duplicity of MS
Summer has finally arrived in Ireland. After what seemed a prolonged autumn and/or winter, we saw summer marching in as if tomorrow might never come. Seeing we are a breed of people who can endlessly talk about the weather, we find fault in it as soon as it happens, only to spin more hours of talking about it. One of the Irish newspapers printed an hour-by-hour event guide to make the most of it… after all, this is a four-seasons-in-one-day country… just in case. But not this time. Headlines like ‘Scorchio is staying put for the weekend’ and “We’ll go from hot to warm weather” fill me with dread. Please don’t get me wrong, I like the sun as much as anyone else; it’s great for catching vitamin D, for…
A new dawn, a new season
September 1st… There is some security in hearing those words. September 1st reminds me of my first days in school, of the start of autumn and winter, of the coming of Halloween and Christmas, of curling up on the couch under a blanket and with the candles and the open fire lit… There’s something in those last few months of the year that make me long for them all summer long. I am glad the warm or hot summer temperatures are gone again for another 6 months or so, and even though I love summer… the temperatures are my biggest enemy. My reasons for loving autumn and winter have nothing to do with being a negative person, because I am not. Physically, my body cannot take anything more than 17°…
