Category: Whats The Matter With Me? Podcast
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Social Isolation
Welcome to the What’s The Matter With Me? Podcast, Season 3, Episode 6: Social Isolation In which: I deal with social isolation, get interrupted by a real estate broker, I’m uninspiring, and I come out against disability porn. I realize I need a scooter again, and the National MS Society support will help. My name…
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Matrix of Domination
Welcome to the What’s The Matter With Me? Podcast: Season 3, Episode 5: Matrix of Domination Coming up, I’m afraid to get a scooter because I fear my own disability, I get ready to emcee for Walk MS, and try to understand my place in society vis a vis Race, Gender, Class, and Ability. My…
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Mobility Assistance
Welcome to the What’s the Matter With Me? Podcast, Season 3, Episode 4, Mobility Assistance, in which we go on a trip to Sacramento where I finally admit to myself that I need a scooter, plus fictional characters with MS. I made some new tunes and more. Stay tuned. Check it out. My name is…
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Infusion
In this episode we’ll go through getting an infusion infusion nounthe slow injection of a substance into a vein or tissue. Google Dictionary I was due for my Rituxan infusion, my primary multiple sclerosis (MS) medication, on January 4th. I called a week ahead. I needed to get bloodwork at a lab and approval from the…
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MS Breakthroughs
Attending the MS Breakthroughs Conference Over the weekend, I attended the MS Breakthroughs event put on by the National MS Society. The keynote speaker was Jeffrey Dunn, director of the Stanford MS Center. The event promised to inform about the current-day MS Breakthroughs as well as the future of MS Research. It began with a…