My dad just called me and told me a family friend died suddenly this morning.

[Monty91]

I was sure he'd died about 5 years ago http://www.awimb.com/images/smiley_icons/ohwell.gif

Lucky I didn't bump into him in the street!

[Berni]

[Gooner1990 (47/92)]

[LadyG -keeping the spirit of the unbeatables alive]

Primary Progressive MS

[IUFG]

[Monty91]

Cancer, I mean, rather than casual violence, as the phrase is normally understood to mean.

[Monty91]

[Gooner1990 (47/92)]

[Herbette Chapman - aged 15]

up for your own punchline http://www.awimb.com/images/smiley_icons/nod.gif

So don't you ever play the jewish card to your advantage? - refusing to work Saturdays, refusing to do anything remotely resembling manly work, generally being a bit of a pansy?

[andy smith]

Glad you didn't disappoint.

[Herbette Chapman - aged 15]

'moment' of death. You insensitive **** you are.

[Monty91]

No, I'm generally quite resentful and embarrassed about my jewish heritage, particularly the assumption that I'm at least slightly religious (and tight).

[Berni]

Oh, you can talk about a 'slow death' if you like, but I'm guessing that the poor f**ker actually dying feels that the whole thing feels pretty f**king sudden.

[bostonbrian]

[LadyG -keeping the spirit of the unbeatables alive]

morphine helped her mind

[Herbette Chapman - aged 15]

cringing, Shylock parody as all jewish men do. Look at Paul Simon, Mark Knopfler, Bob Dylan, Pete Townsend, Leonard Cohen. They've all merged into each other.

[Chief Arrowhead]

Diagnosed 12 years ago and she isn't close to needing a wheelchair. It does behave quite differently for others, though.

She swears by LDN (Low DOse Naltrexone?)as a cure-all for many symptoms, including the one that she was most disturbed by, urinary incontinence.

[Chief Arrowhead]

this kind is almost like a totally different disease, unfortunately. Drugs that work for relapsing MS patients don't work at all for the progressive MS folks.

[LadyG -keeping the spirit of the unbeatables alive]

it's a ******* of a disease,, my sister has not capacity to do anything for herself physically, and it's affected her short term memory as well.

[LadyG -keeping the spirit of the unbeatables alive]

[LadyG -keeping the spirit of the unbeatables alive]

although she says she can move her feet a little, but it is only a little, muscles in the legs have just wasted away. She's also now being fed via a stomach tube. Only 52 years old

[sodd]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HKjlXpb-k1I/TAdFTpj45kI/AAAAAAAAKj8/pE1xZjcJBqE/s1600/PeteTownshend.jpg

[Berni]

touch with the opiates. Indeed, if I'm ever diagnosed as terminal, among the first things I intend to do is secure a fatal dose of brown. Best way out.

[Chief Arrowhead]

my aunt considers herself very lucky, oddly enough.

[sodd]

[Mc Gooner]

I suspect he probably felt the same

[Berni]

doctor. Now there is a man who should, by rights, be brown bread.

[LadyG -keeping the spirit of the unbeatables alive]

[Herbette Chapman - aged 15]

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01389/bob-dylan_1389356c.jpg http://cdn.theguardian.tv/brightcove/poster/2012/4/19/120419Paulsimon_6078272.jpg

[Monty91]

[sodd]

[Supermac1976]

[halfsharkalligatorhalfman]