Khash chimes in on Michael J. Fox

[khashka]

Rush can go fuck himself, the bastard.

Normally I'm OK - yesterday I couldn't even fucking walk. Hell, I couldn't even stand up without falling down (was I faking? You wanna see the injuries?)

It just pisses me off.....


Khash.

[KitchenWitch]

1. I was enraged by Rush's antics regarding MJ Fox's ad

He has no fucking soul.

[khashka]

2. You know

You've had some pretty scary health poblems lately. Thank the goddess they worked out OK.

Can you PM me your new phone number?

Peggy was gonna give it to me. I said NO! The polite thing is to ask and let her decide.

If you wanna talk, PM me :)


Khash.

[wildhorses]

3. Khash--

I did not know that you also have MS:hug:

limpnuts is a fucktard:grr:

[khashka]

7. I don't have MS

but I have many friends who do. (The spinal tap is pretty awful, huh?)

I have an auto immune disorder - my immune system is taking my nervous system apart. Trruthfully, it scares the hell out of me. I've lost so much already and the prognosis is that everything else I love I will lose too. I rarely get through a day without crying

But I do understand.....


Khash.

[wildhorses]

8. now I understand how well you can relate to what Michael J. Fox

is going through.

Spinal Taps (Lumbar Punctures) are the pits. and ALWAYS little babies with fever of an unknown origin have to be done to rule out meningitis.

peace,
wh

[JitterbugPerfume]

4. I do not wish evil on anyone(even Rush)

but karma can be a real bitch

[ThomCat]

5. It's great that RL is getting some blowback on this.

He deserves to look like a pompous ass in the media. :evilgrin:

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. MrsG hugs Khash....

:hug:

I just got done dealing with a person who wanted to know why somebody "my age" has a handicapped parking tag... and if I was using my mother's. :hug: :hug: :hug:

[KitchenWitch]

10. OMG do not get me started on "those" people

Same same here...I think from now on, I am going to traipse around town in a bikini, so the world can see all the scars for which I have earned the HC tag.

:evilgrin:

[ScreamingMeemie]

14. People have no idea sometimes do they?

Perhaps you and I shall walk around like that together. That'll teach em. :hug;

[KitchenWitch]

20. LOL

We would be a sight, now, wouldn't we!

:hug:

[ThomCat]

11. I think women get that more than men.

I have people ask me if I was in the Military, I guess asking me if I got hurt serving.

[khashka]

12. Hah!

I had a doctor ask me if I'd ever been a professional boxer...

"With this face? It ain't much but it's what I got!"
"Serious motorcycle accident?"
" Nope. That's my ex wife's territory."
"So what happened to you?"
"Life."

Khash.

[ScreamingMeemie]

13. I get...wow, you're a real klutz, eh? all the time.

:(

[khashka]

16. Yup, I rarely get through a day without bleeding

A lot of it is not that bad.... I'm a blood fetishist (my own, no one elses, ever)

So I usually don't mind.... although I could do without the pain.

Khash, the bloody bruised klutz.

[ScreamingMeemie]

18. You ever need to vent...you know where I am.

:hug:

I worry about you when you are not here for extended periods.

[Kutjara]

21. Yep, do that too.

My trick is to go facedown on the pavement and give myself a broken nose and two black eyes. At least I get left alone for a bit while I'm healing, because people think I must be some kind of psycho.

Yours in blood and mucus,

Kutjara

[Kutjara]

19. Oh yes, I know that one well.

The other one I get is when someone sees me struggling with a piece of luggage or shopping bags: "you should work out." I have a stock answer for that: "Quick! Call Jerry Lewis and tell him you've discovered the cure for MD! He'll be fucking delighted."

[Kutjara]

17. I get that crap all the time.

I have muscular dystrophy, but, to all outward appearances, I'm "normal." The only problem is that I have the physical strength of the average eight year old, so I need a cane to provide additional support and help with balance.

Because I'm a tiny bit vain, I got myself a lovely silver-topped antique walking stick, that makes me feel better about needing a piece of wood to get around. I wish I hadn't bothered. The comments I get from people make me glad I don't own a gun. One 20-something freeptard walked past me in Best Buy the other day, pointed at me and yelled "gay!" at the top of his lungs. He wasn't a unique case. People seem to feel entitled to burden me with their half-baked ideas about what I should do about my 'problem.' A check-out girl asked me if I ever felt like smacking someone over the head with my stick. 'I do now,' was my reply.

I regularly get hassled for using disabled parking, even though I have a permit; so much so that I usually don't bother.

The funny part is that I know I'm lucky. I have FSH dystrophy, the one that doesn't kill young or affect the internal organs. I will weaken progressively over the years and may ultimately need a wheelchair, but that's by no means certain. At least it won't kill me. But even my own, comparatively minor, disability sets me apart and apparently entitles people to objectify me. I can only imagine how those with profound disability are treated.

I found Michael J. Fox's autobiography "Lucky Man" to be very inspirational when I was going through my diagnosis and getting used to my new future. He is a person of rare strength and unquenchable optimism and I dearly hope a cure is found for Parkinson's before his time runs out.

[LeftyMom]

22. My Mom gets that a lot, and snotty notes left on her car

And that's with really obvious surgical scars and looking weak and sick more often than not. Somebody even yelled at her for milking the system while she was wearing a hard brace after neck surgery. Apparently if you're not in a chair or really old looking you can't be suffering no matter how obviously you appear to be hurting or limited in your mobility.

[alarimer]

9. Rush Limbaugh is a total waste of oxygen

I am not even sure he's human. I hope something really, really bad happens to him. Or he dies of an Oxycontin overdose. I will dance on his grave either way. I know that isn't nice but neither is he.

[Cannikin]

15. Khash, I had no idea you were suffering

I'll send you good wishes.

:hug:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

23. If Rush suffered from Parkinson's, you can be sure we'd hear a different tune

A couple of years ago, I went to look at a collection of violins that was being sold by a musician I admired from the time I was a child.

Why was he selling these instruments?

He was suffering from the advanced stages of Parkinson's disease. This man, once so eloquently expressive with his bow, lacked the muscular control to simply sit still. It was difficult to avoid crying in his company.

The ad that Lush was whining about was for the MD Senatorial race. With a little luck, Limpball's big fat mouth has cost Steele the election. I certainly haven't seen him speak out against the attack on Fox; and that will not sit well with the upper middle-class African American voting base he hopes to win.

I'm so sorry, Khash, that you're suffering. I hope there is relief for your illness soon. :hug:

[Deja Q]

24. OMG, I too had no idea.

:hug: :hug:

[SeattleGirl]

25. Rush is a disgusting and wasted use of human tissue.

When I saw the video of him parodying Michael J. Fox, my disgust was beyond words. And then today, he says he takes nothing back that he said about MJF. If that fucking ass developed Parkinsons, or MS, or any other debilitating condition, he'd be the first one whining about it, all "poor poor me". He wold never act with the dignity of MJF or many other people who ARE dealing with it personally.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

26. The medication is actually what causes the involuntary weaving...

FOX: Well, actually, I've been erring on the side of caution--I think 'erring' is actually the right word--in that I've been medicating perhaps too much, in the sense that a lot of times the symptoms that people see in some of these interviews that have been on are actually dyskinesia, which is a reaction to the medication. Because if I were purely symptomatic with Parkinson's symptoms, a lot of times speaking is difficult. There's a kind of a cluttering of speech and it's very difficult to sit still, to sit in one place. You know, the symptoms are different, so I'd rather kind of suffer the symptoms of dyskinesia. . .this kind of weaving and this kind of continuous thing is much preferable, actually, than pure Parkinson's symptoms. So that's what I generally do. . . . . .So I haven't had any, you know, problems with pure Parkinson's symptoms in any of these interviews, because I'll tend to just make sure that I have enough Sinemet in my system and, in some cases, too much. But to me, it's preferable. It's not representative of what I'm like in my everyday life. I get a lot of people with Parkinson's coming up to me saying, 'You take too much medication.' I say, 'Well, you sit across from Larry King and see if you want to tempt it.'

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