http://kensmsrecovery.com Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:24:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I haven’t blogged for a year, mainly because I’d said what I wanted to say, and in doing so hope I helped someone somewhere. To quickly summarise, I have told readers of the things done by Professor George Jelinek in Australia in slowing or ceasing the downward progression of MS ... http://kensmsrecovery.com/2011/11/04/ldn-and-me/ In my last report I mentioned I'm attracted to all things motivational and uplifting in regards to "MS recovery". Unarguably this is an insidious illness which, if left unmanaged (for want of a better word), will chug away - stealthily corroding our nerve sheaths and eroding our functionality. ... http://kensmsrecovery.com/2010/06/16/sites-worth-seeing/ If you’ve followed my blog, or have read anything of it, you’ll have picked up by now two things: firstly I read as much as I can on anything containing therapeutic and optimistic keywords such as “recovery”, “overcoming” and “managing” MS; and secondly I very much follow the “diet ... http://kensmsrecovery.com/2010/04/14/john-pageler-vision-and-hope/ In previous posts I have mentioned, here and there, books and people who or which have had a profound impact on me – in general and more specifically since being diagnosed with MS. In a couple of these posts I mentioned that in February 2009, some two months after being ... http://kensmsrecovery.com/2010/02/26/a-book-for-all-reasons/ When I was diagnosed with MS after years of wrong diagnoses, I did as I always do with a problem – I gathered as much information as I could and proceeded to sort wheat from chaff. Naturally in this day and age the internet and meta-search engines, particularly ... http://kensmsrecovery.com/2010/02/16/vale-jimmy-heuga/ It seems to me that to ponder the books one likes is a form of intimate personal introspection – a variant of “the eyes being the windows to the soul”. So I’ll try to not be too introspective, and will stick to books with an MS focus. I’ll ... http://kensmsrecovery.com/2010/01/25/books-me-an-intro/ Today I wanted to continue comment on walking-as-therapy for recovery. Previously I wrote that I have commenced a program of walking most days of the week, using Austrian hiking poles (sometimes called Nordic poles or more generically trekking poles). These are essentially ultra-light ski poles. ... http://kensmsrecovery.com/2010/01/08/walking-and-other-luxuries-part-2/ Humans are a mobile species – we’re bipeds after all, and most of our ancestors came (willingly or otherwise) at some stage from far distant points on the globe. It seems to me that we tend to take walking for granted unless or until we’re unable to transport ourselves as ... http://kensmsrecovery.com/2010/01/03/walking-and-other-luxuries-%e2%80%93-part-1/ Welcome, and thank you for reading again. In this latest blog I’ll mention issues which are loosely connected (at least in my mind), namely the Obama administration and the increasing relevance of stem cell research. Firstly and unashamedly I’m a fan of Barack Obama. Because I live in Australia ... http://kensmsrecovery.com/2009/12/19/obama-stem-cells/ I intend to write a comment on stem cells asap, in the meantime here's the good news story which was on the airwaves here today. http://kensmsrecovery.com/2009/12/14/breaking-news-story-downunder/