This month sees the arrival of two bumper bundles of joy: Trinity Rising in the States tomorrow from Tor, and last week Die Wilde Jagd in Germany (Heyne). Same again? Er, no For those of you who don’t know, Book 2 of The Wild Hunt is darker and more disturbing than Songs of the Earth. …
Tag Archive: MS
Jun 21 2011
Some good news of a non-book kind. Sort of.
Today I had an appointment with my neurologist, who gave me the results of my recent MRI scan. Compared to my scan of March 2009, it showed a decrease in both the number and the size of the lesions in my brain. This is A Good Thing: it means my relapse rate has been stalled, …
Jul 06 2010
Health and inefficiency
Regular readers will know (don’t try to hide behind the sofa; I know there’s at least four of you) that I am busy finishing Book 2 of The Wild Hunt, Trinity Moon. What you may not know is that as if MS wasn’t enough fun by itself, I’ve also been diagnosed with gallstones. Honking great …
Jul 11 2009
I ate’nt dead
Got my third Tysabri treatment on Wednesday, and I’m not dead. So far, so good. I feel more alert, better able to concentrate, without that awful grey mental fog. I’ve been able to finish overhauling my website, achieving more in the last fortnight than I’d managed in the previous four months. It’s good not to …
Jan 21 2009
Hanging up my lid
Alas, the time has come. My balance problems have got to the point where Rob is terrified to take me pillion on the bike, and I am so leery about getting on and off that I have decided, with great reluctance, to hang up my lid. I’ve always loved bikes, ever since I saw a …
Dec 12 2008
Calm before the storm
September 2004 and my first relapse of any significance. I already had some loss of sensation in my fingertips, but it was rather surprising to be soaping myself in the shower and discovering I couldn’t feel the sponge pretty much anywhere from my boobs down. Hmm. Well, it wasn’t anything I hadn’t expected, so I …
Nov 02 2008
The story so far
2004. It started with a bout of double vision, headaches and falling over that could not be attributed to alcohol, or needing new specs. My GP sent me to an ophthalmologist at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, who ran a battery of tests involving flashing lights and buttons to click. He then pronounced my eyes perfectly …
Oct 21 2008
The sky is falling…not
MS. Scary, huh? Actually, no. It frustrates me, limits me, makes me insanely angry, weepy, tired and clumsy in varying degrees, but it doesn’t scare me. Maybe it should, since it could potentially get quite grim, but I invite you, gentle reader, to note the “could” and the “potentially” in this sentence. I don’t know …