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Comment on The Open Letter To Those Without CFS/Fibro … by Margaret O'neill

Margaret O'neill — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:35:50 +0000

You said it!! I have rhumatoid arthritis and having a chronic illness is tough especially when you are young (i’m 35) i’m going to show people this letter and maybe they’l understand a bit more! I think it should be printed and left at hospitals and doctors surgerys for all to see!!

Comment on A Typical Day: Jodi Bassett by Indigo Jo Blogs — Ricky Gervais on ME, and other bad comedy

Indigo Jo Blogs — Ricky Gervais on ME, and other bad comedy — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:38:00 +0000

[...] You can read an account of a typical day by another severely affected sufferer, Jodi Bassett, here; she also has a [...]

Comment on Personalising The Randall Chronic Pain Scale by Ricky Buchanan

Ricky Buchanan — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:15:36 +0000

@Lois: Thanks for the updated link, I get lots of people searching for that! I’ll add a link to your site too.

Best of luck,
r

Comment on Unknown Pain Scale by Lois Randall

Lois Randall — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:35:01 +0000

Hi Ricky, Someone is circulating this as “Randall Pain Scale, Adapted for use in Canada” with my name in the title and (with inaccurate copyright attributes) I’m named at the bottom as the author. Drug names mentioned vary on different versions that I’ve seen. So far I’ve tracked it down to a Facebook page (posted by a “Monica”) and on other internet sites as well. I just wanted you to know that I didn’t write it or give permission for the RCPS to be used in such a way.
Hope this finds you happy and well,
Lois Randall,
author of the Randall Chronic Pain Scale (RCPS)
http://www.infomin.org/index.html
http://www.infomin.org/painscale.html

Comment on Personalising The Randall Chronic Pain Scale by Lois Randall

Lois Randall — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:09:21 +0000

Hi Ricky, My pain scale – the Randall Chronic Pain Scale – (RCPS) is at http://www.infomin.org/painscale.html I think you did a great job describing your pain: I can really identify. I hope you’re doing well.
My chronic pain site starts at
http://www.infomin.org/index.html
I’m doing a lot of updating to the site, so please bear with me. The updated content will be good, I promise.
Best wishes,
Lois Randall

Comment on An Open Letter To Those Without Invisible Disability Or Chronic Illness … by pissed « surrenderXXcontrol

pissed « surrenderXXcontrol — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:18:49 +0000

[...] it’s different to be understanding, and to just completely treat someone differently. when someone has the flu, you dont ask them to do manual labor. tha’ts being understanding. but hazing a kid because she’s always sick… that’s not ok… http://notdoneliving.net/openletter/id [...]

Comment on Wishlist by William Kern

William Kern — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:25:36 +0000

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Comment on “How Are You?” What to answer when you’re never “Fine, thanks” by Matthew Smith

Matthew Smith — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:14:04 +0000

It’s often happened that I’ve been asked a general question about “how I am” etc., particularly when I’m depressed about something (sickness has rarely if ever come into it), and I give them a “fine” or “OK” type response and they press the issue with “you don’t look/sound fine”. People don’t realise that you might not want to talk about whatever’s not OK at that time and/or with them. Their responses make it harder to keep the tone of the conversation polite, which you might want to do if it’s (say) your aunt doing the asking.

Comment on An Open Letter To Those Without Invisible Disability Or Chronic Illness … by Joey

Joey — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:24:07 +0000

Thank you. I am a disabled American Veteran. Even though I have h/c tags on my car, I get odd looks when I can walk away from my car. My h/c is not something who does not know me would see.

Also being a woman and on the young side, I get really odd looks. Like, why are you driving your Grand Dad’s car?

Comment on About by Preb Stritter

Preb Stritter — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:12:11 +0000

Hi Ricky,
I am an 86 yr old gal living in a fabulous retirement community (for 70 yrs+ seniors) in Vermont, USA. I am considered to be the in-house expert (?) on Mac computers. There has just been a new group formed here of residents with limited vision and our library has acquired a 27″ iMac for their use. So I am trying to get up-to-speed on Mac options for those with limited vision and have been looking particularly at the APHont. But I am having trouble getting it up. I have the aphont.exe file and the latest version of StuffitExpander but can’t make the last leap to get translated. All I get is the garbage .exec file. I am using Mac OS 10.6.2 Snow Leopard

What am I doing wrong?