stevebarrett.bsky.social
Lifelong Hearts supporter. Currently battling with MND. The world begins and ends with family, nothing else.
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But he happily states it to be zelenskyy’s fault, does he not? Buffoon of a man.
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Indeed, Brian. Often the ‘patient voice’ is the least heard. I appreciate I don’t need to have suffered a broken leg to know that it is painful, but I do believe many of us with MND merit direct involvement in academic and clinical research programmes. We could add much value.
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That is a difficult one, Brian. Surely there must be gaps in research looking into resolving specific elements of the disease symptoms such as swallowing, maintaining emotional equilibrium, and end of life care. This includes researching what care that carers may need at end of life stage.
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Yes, @mareetodd.bsky.social is a champion for the cause; thank goodness for people like her. I hope the wind blows strong in her main sail so that her success is delivered speedily.
By the way, have just seen the King on TV blowing into a recorder fashioned out of a carrot. The mind boggles 😁
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Definitely mate 👍
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Are you going to the May event at the Parliament, Brian?
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I think that one of the challenges is the access to carers, which appears sketchy regionally. I recall feeling positive when hearing SNP plans for a social care policy at the last Scottish Parliament event. I understand that policy has now been discarded? Disappointing if true.
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Exactly Brian, of course a cure would be anyone’s wish but that is a rather utopian feasibility at this stage. Much more research needed to establish and understand more about causation. Anything else may then more easily follow.
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Go for a long walk holding hands with my wife is the one thing I would want to do above all else. Of course, I miss every aspect of my life when I was fully mobile and, as you say, it’s the simple things that were once taken for granted that I wish I could do now.
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Hi Brian, tracheostomy has not yet been discussed with me. My breathing, albeit challenging at times, is not at the stage where a tracheostomy is needed. My NIV is effective in supporting me at this time.
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Thank you, Brian and fingers crossed, mate. What will be, will be as they say.👍
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Really pleased that your respiratory function is improved, Brian. I can only imagine how uncomfortable and scary it must have felt prior to your 24 hour arrangement. I am hoping that the time I am using my machine does not extend too much further; the opposite will most likely happen though lol.
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Hi Brian, yes. I couldn’t cope without it, mate. I have it on for approximately 16 hours per day. Was initially on VPAP and now moved to BPAP only this week.
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Ahhhhhh, the old manufacturing issues lol.
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Great question, Brian. For me, I have been very well informed by my support team but some things are still a weird nonetheless. I have a loss of sensory capacity in my right hand which is constantly tingly. The other is the over production of saliva. I am not dribbling but I pool and swallow a lot.
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I sometimes wish I wasn’t told. Ignorance can be blissful and I often wonder if knowing about the condition affected my psyche negatively. I was initially told I had 12-14 months to live but here I am over three years later! Now more accepting of what lies ahead but incredibly frightened at times.
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My diagnosis journey was around 5 years or so. Numerous electro-conduction tests. I just think the barriers to a quicker diagnosis involved a combination of factors such as, my ignorance and apathy, the time it took to discount other conditions, and probably the slow pace of my symptom changes.
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my progression is very slow compared to that of most others. I know I should feel blessed by that, and I suppose I do, but feel terrible for those of us that experience more dramatic impacts that I have thus far.
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tests, including biopsy of my right thigh and removal of sural nerve in my right ankle. This led to an initial ALS diagnosis. Flew to Florida for second opinion and the MND was confirmed but changed from ALS to PMA. Just the less shitty end of a shitty stick really. I have a deep sense of guilt that
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My first symptom was a tingling feeling in my right leg and very sudden atrophy of the muscle in my right thigh. Despite tests in the UK no diagnosis was made.
After moving to the Caribbean for work purposes, I started to get fasciculations in both legs and right arm. Had a number of subsequent ..
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Hi Brian, sleep is, as you say, important. I struggle to stay awake during the day at times because the quality of my sleep at night is poor. My adjustable bed is helpful.
I can still turn myself with the aid of a grab bar but find it hard to do and to get comfortable due to breathing my issues.
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Well, it’s good to have you here Brian. I am not hugely active but do have the odd scroll and engage in discussion from time to time. Hopefully catch up with you at some MND Scotland events, mate 👍
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Hi Brian, thanks for following me. Happy to follow you on your journey, albeit you are much further along the path than I am. Wishing and hoping that I develop your inner strength. Take care buddy.
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Syphilis or gonorrhoea? That’s the choice 🇱🇻
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Hopefully, mate 🇱🇻
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Stupid is as stupid does!
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Likely a 1 year extension option attached to his 18 month contract.
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We are much stronger with a positive Shanks amongst our ranks …… (that sounds almost poetic).
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🤣👍🇱🇻
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Shady? I mean the real slim Shady!
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Happy to have this bookmarked for future ridicule however, I have seen quite a bit of McCart over the years and in no way is Rowles a better player than him. He will not be bullied in the way Kye was at times and is more of goal threat.
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Would you mind if I shared this?
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Brilliant! …… and so accurate. 👍🇱🇻
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It is unacceptable and the club (and FoH) need to at least say something about it. No place for that tripe at our club. Absolute knuckle-draggers.
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Spot on, mate. A bit nervy at times but hopefully having secured the points we can kick on.
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Again, fair comment. I kind of get it and I am sure we all share frustration and possibly for different reasons. Mine kind of sits with our capitulation when we don’t score the first goal, we usually lack the fortitude to recover and we shrink. Sunday will be interesting if we go behind.
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Fair comment.
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It didn’t help and only served to increase the fear being felt by an already nervous set of players. I get we are not playing well just now but we are more likely to improve things (surely) by helping to pull players through, not by jumping on their throats at the first opportunity. Just my opinion.
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If we lose (or fail to win) in Sunday, I predict the next statement will need to be more like an essay.
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Well I hope that Kevin Sinfield gets one too, if anyone deserves one it is him, perhaps more than any sporting figure.
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Thanks Claire, but Stevie’s passing is everyone’s loss. He did so much to raise awareness of MND and my part in his journey was only very small. Certainly everyone involved with the MND Smart Trial will miss his contribution, his humanity and his wicked sense of humour.
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Will miss him. A great guy, friend and fellow MND warrior who fought his illness with such grace and dignity. 🙏
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A serious issue lies at the heart of this however, just to be clear, that was so funny I almost choked on my coffee!
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Shanks, if he feels confident. If not, Spittal or Penrice (or Grant if he is in the pitch - penalties looks like the thing he does best).
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Must win game for us and the fragility of our squad, particularly some of our key players in critical positions, is all too evident.
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We are a hardy bunch, Andy …. and not a little foolish 😁
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It will become, or already is, a cancer within our support that needs lanced. It is utterly embarrassing.
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I really hope that the club addresses this robustly - and the other sectarian bile that I could hear. Certainly where I was seated, there was collective disgust. I know every club have bangers in their support but I just hope for all decent fans, we can get that nonsense in the bin.