rwboughton Patient Expert

Portland, Oregon
Born in Portland, Oregon, in 1954, lifelong resident, writing, literature, coffee enthusiast. I... Full Bio
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Many Mansions by rwboughton Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Day by day Saaid is prepared to move out. The latest news is always that tomorrow he will be leaving--but tomorrow, in this narrowly defined, special sort of case, never arri ... Read on »
New Student by rwboughton Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Today we have a new exchange student, Saaid from United Arab Emirates. Saaid, as becomes instantly obvious, is terrified of dogs. I wonder if the agency told him we have two ... Read on »
My Newly Discovered Potentially Healthy Diet by rwboughton Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Another thing I decided after my MS diagnosis was that I should pay more attention to my diet. I should become conscious of what I eat. This is not to say that I have change ... Read on »
My Newly Discovered Active Lifestyle by rwboughton Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) The first thing I decided to do after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis was to climb a mountain. Why? I don't know. I guess because it was there, and it just seemed like ... Read on »
The Best Parts by rwboughton Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) "It would be nice to talk to the Bud we knew growing up, not the Richard guy whose wife and disease have taken the best parts of him."So said my younger stepdaughter ... Read on »
Manitobians by rwboughton Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Where have my Manitobian friends gone? They used to visit me here, but I have not seen them now in the longest time. I miss you Manitobians, Winnipegians, and such-like. I ... Read on »
Glad To Meet You . . . Again by rwboughton Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Last night I had a dream. A variation on a theme. I had just gotten up in the morning (in the dream, that is), had walked down the hall toward the kitchen, and was startled at ... Read on »
Gone Fishing by rwboughton Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Through meadow tracks beside the stream which winds from where the forest burned my father's boot soles yet persist as common as the silty springs and confident they l ... Read on »
Stuck In Old Lodi Again by rwboughton Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) If I could somehow predict the arrival of these intermittent days of heightened confusion, I would just stay home and do something less demanding--wash the dishes, or do the l ... Read on »
Dim Sum Driver by rwboughton Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Every time Albert has stayed with us, and then leaves, my car ends up smelling like a mixture of reheated Chinese food and cigarette smoke, all mixed together like the end res ... Read on »
Where have they gone--so many,so ... by rwboughton Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Where have they gone-- so many, so beloved-- gone to keep council with the lonelier planets-- and all their secrets kept henceforth silent-- I will not hear so much as ... Read on »
Rest In Peace by rwboughton Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) So okay, I went back on the Copaxone. My wife made me. I suppose it's a good thing overall. For all I know, I had a relapse in the last couple months, what with all these v ... Read on »
How About This? by rwboughton Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) How does this sound to you: Retire at 55, give your dogs to a friend, hold an everything must go furniture sale, sell your cars back to the dealer, give your house back to th ... Read on »
Moving Mountains by rwboughton Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) My wife is able to move mountains. Mountain moving itself is more a matter of will than of any sort of miraculous gift, save that the gift be a miraculously resolute will. T ... Read on »
What's the Difference, Really? by rwboughton Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) A close look at the differences between one person and another is apt to show that we have much more in common than we might have thought. I find it to be so again and again ... Read on »
Killed Instantly by rwboughton Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) He/She was killed instantly. One often finds this phrase used, in newspaper articles, television news, or in simple conversation--a phrase that is punctuated somehow with a se ... Read on »
My Skin Hurts by rwboughton Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) I finally figured things out yesterday. Yes, a word of wisdom came to me from on high, like a dead bird falling on my head, waking me from the slumber of self-diagnosis, snat ... Read on »
FUBAR by rwboughton Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) I guess maybe there comes a point in time where one has to acknowledge that he is fucked up in a general, irredeemable, intractable sort of way and just leave it at that. In ... Read on »
See me nowall declawedsharp teet ... by rwboughton Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) See me now all declawed sharp teeth filed smooth as ivory keys A lion among kittens now become You’d like me best this way with marrow sucked from every bone a ... Read on »
What Is and Is Not by rwboughton Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) What is MS and what is not? I know, I've asked the question 100 times already, and I presume that I'll ask it 100 more. Take my recent back troubles, for instance, and the c ... Read on »