#National Multiple Sclerosis Society

[the-almighty-gob-john-langley]

They're Escaping the Asylum, and Running Things!

Here I go again, repeating myself, I know. As potentially boring as it may be, something tells me that you, my friend, may well be as exasperated as me by now. So, here we go. Let's share a common vent as we continue to highlight the sheer idiocy of others nowadays.

Where shall we begin? I know, how about The image of a dead lion being swarmed by bees to be dropped from some of Lyle's Golden Syrup packaging. Question one: who actually cares enough about a graphic on a tin can no one even notices anyway? Question two: What relevance, if any does an insignificant graphic have on a buying decision if someone wants a tin of golden syrup? Not me, for sure, and finally, Question three: who is the marketing numpty who considered this a good idea, and did it cause them to lose any sleep due to the graphic which has been in place for somewhere around 150 years without any bother whatsoever? Actually, I have just thought of one further question. Does this person not have a hobby, because clearly he/she/it has far too much time on their hands.

In a similar vein, I was asked by a news channel to participate in a live broadcast about the statue of Bristol's Edward Colston, earlier this week, as later on that day Bristol city council would be having a meeting regarding its future. My point is that the Colston statue has been in place since seventeen hundred and something, with millions of people passing it by since then on their way to and from work, to schools, universities, for business meetings and conferences, and tourists and shoppers alike, all going about whatever they had to do at the time.

To all intents and purposes, no one gave so much as a flying fig about it because it was just there, and pretty much invisible to all except a self-entitled minority over the past few years who suddenly felt oh, so offended by its presence - poor dears, pulled it down, and then returned home to, I presume, watch children's television following their petulant outburst without even the satisfaction of receiving so much as a Blue Peter badge for their efforts. Awww. Still, as long as it served to feed their oversized egos they were happy, bless them. Meanwhile, of course, the majority of Bristol 'adult's did the adult thing and averted their gaze to the Colston statue, as similarly, the same can be said for those who bought golden syrup over the years.

What next then? Aha, yes, here's another among the loonies who, newly born, deserved to have been baptised in a font of sulphuric acid to save the rest of us from their later life moronisitis (yes, I just made that word up). The prize pillock here is whichever employee of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (MS) decided to sack pensioner Fran Itkoff from her volunteer position with the charity because she "asked what pronouns meant". Fran Itkoff had served the non-profit for multiple sclerosis patients for 60 years, with her late husband running the Long Beach Lakewood chapter before his death.

She was left stunned when her bosses forced her to step down on January 19 following an exchange with a colleague who asked her to use her pronouns in email signatures. Well now, isn't this "colleague" just full of her own self-importance, or what? I'm surprised her ego doesn't get in the way of her entering whatever building doorway gives her access to her work. Aren't you? Pronouns, my arse, get over yourself woman before you fall off your high horse and injure yourself. These people aren't even worth the satire. Hence, as soon as people begin thrusting their inane pronouns at me in any communication I go incommunicado with immediate effect until they've got over themselves, or, penguins takeover Parliament. Whichever is sooner. I'm not fussed.

Shall we all now deep-breathe for a couple of minutes before I move on? Very well.

Ready for the next assault on your common sense, are you? Good. So, how about this one? Charity umbrella group Wildlife and Countryside Link claim that the British countryside is a "racist colonial" white space. You see, lunatics like this would be enough to drive the sane of our population on the phone to the Samaritans helpline 24/7, wouldn't they? I feel a headache coming on just from writing about it! Which, of course, leads me towards some smartarse saying, "Well, the majority of 'adults would avert their gaze," I suppose. Yeah, yeah, there's always one! Except, like most, I hope, normal, common-sense people with even a modicum of intelligence would recognise blatant, and quite unnecessary stupidity when they see it.

Whoever dreamed this idea up is clearly scraping whatever barrels of employment they can find that enables them to keep their, no doubt, high-paid job. Simply finding problems where none exist to justify their status and salary by stating the countryside as "'racist space dominated by white people' as well as, and wait for it. Yes, grip on to something firm now, "The UK’s role in the European colonial project has also driven the current climate and nature crises."

"European colonial project"? What the hell is that supposed to be? Do you know the worst part about this? Someone has probably been to university for three, or four years, to learn this tripe. It continues, "People of colour in the UK are significantly less likely to visit natural spaces." Give me a break! I'm surprised whoever didn't go further in stating that whenever a black person is seen in the countryside the locals assume it's an African missionary come to convert them all to Christianity because they are such a rare sight out in the sticks. I can just picture it now, loads of white people hurriedly retreating back to their homes, scared out of their wits at the sight of a black face.

Look, lighthearted humour aside, I don't know about you, but I've seen skin of all colours meandering around the countryside and enjoying it. Some people of ethnic minorities have even discovered we have things called buses, coaches, and even trains here in England. How cool is that! If people search hard enough they'll even find out how to use our buses, coaches, and trains too. Wow, twenty-first Britain, who'd have thought it? However, sometimes I do wonder for myself. So, despite this person's claims, and the transport systems we have in place, I'd say it's more a case of lack of interest combined with laziness that fewer people of colour are seen in the countryside, wouldn't you agree?

Finally, because I simply cannot continue with more of this lunacy without an entire month of Valium to calm my increasingly shredding nerves, I arrive at Pillock Central as the final destination on this particular journey, and Labour MP (seems about right so far - no pun intended) Charlotte Nichols, who was either taking the proverbial, or awaiting psychiatric intervention perhaps, and wanted to change the law to let dead people switch their gender. Hey hun, as much as I hate to state the bleeding obvious. Once you're dead, you're dead. It's a terminal thing, you know? No one is going to rise up out of their grave and complain. Trust me, and move on.

I'm done!

[gracie-bird]

Letter from Princess Grace to the US National Multiple Sclerosis Society (unknown date).

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GOD yesyesyes please donate. I can't believe it's taken me this long to see this, but I've worked for the National M.S. Society and volunteered or fundraised at several of their events. If you don't have a loved one with M.S. you probably don't know about their work, but when my mom was first diagnosed there were something like three treatments available for her; now she has access to twenty. If you have the time, maybe even consider fundraising for an M.S. Society event near you! They do challenge walks, climbs, bike rides, and a whole lot more. Or if you really want to help, see about sponsoring one of these events. You don't need to do much; donating snacks from your local business is pretty common, for example, and they'll make sure your brand name is seen by everyone in attendance.

M.S. is an incredibly difficult condition to live with, even if your prognosis is comparatively good. Please consider supporting the M.S. Society so we can continue to support our parents, siblings, friends, and loved ones.

BLINKING GUY????

(btw this is the link that he gives, which then redirects to the mssociety)

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[getyoungersblog]

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[atomsokc]

September 23, 2023 10:00 am Oklahoma time.

Our MS Journey: A Black MS Community part 2 of 2.

Title: Mental Health and Self Advocacy

Speaker: Dr. Tirisham Gyang, Ohio State.

Host: The National MS Society

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Heard this morning (27 March, 2023) A transcript for this piece is not yet up. They're usually up in a couple of days.

~3 minute listen.

This one right-to-repair law got through in just one state, because the lawmaker who introduced it narrowed its focus down from "The right of everybody to repair anything" (too many businesses to lobby against that) to "the right of wheelchair users to repair their own wheelchairs."

On the one hand it's great. On the other hand, it's a reminder of how marginalized we are in society.

Next thing to fight for: the right of farmers to repair their own farm equipment.

One state's gotten started. Forty-nine to go...

Transcript is now up. I've put the full thing under the cut.

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:

Somewhere on your list of life's annoyances is probably this - manufacturers who won't let customers fix products themselves. Some states are pushing back with right-to-repair laws. Andrew Kenney from Colorado Public Radio visited with one of the first people to use a new right-to-repair law for powered wheelchairs.

(SOUNDBITE OF WHEELCHAIR WHIRRING)

ANDREW KENNEY, BYLINE: Bruce Goguen, who's 68, has used his powered wheelchair for so long that it feels like an extension of himself. He has multiple sclerosis, which affects his speech.

BRUCE GOGUEN: I just think of it as legs, as being my legs.

KENNEY: And that means when he got a new chair last year, every detail had to be right, like the speed of its different modes. His wife, Robin Bolduc, says each one of those adjustments required a visit from an authorized technician. It took weeks.

ROBIN BOLDUC: We would have to call someone, make an appointment, have them come out and say, gee, I'd like to change it so we're walking just a little bit faster.

KENNEY: On one of those visits, Robin realized that the technician wasn't using some specialized device to change the settings. It was a smartphone app. She even found it on the App Store, but it was only available for authorized users.

BOLDUC: Well, I want the app. And he was like, you can't have the app. But I want the app.

KENNEY: That would've been the end of the road, except that Robin and Bruce knew that Colorado's new wheelchair right-to-repair to repair law had just gone into effect. Representative Brianna Titone is the sponsor of the new law. Back in 2021, she originally proposed a much broader bill that would've applied to computers, cellphones and more. That meant an uphill fight against lobbyists for everything from hospitals to tech giants.

BRIANNA TITONE: So I did not win that fight. I lost that fight pretty bad. So that's why the following year, we pared it back to the people who really deserve to have this right. And that were the people who were in wheelchairs.

TITONE: The narrower, wheelchair-focused law passed the legislature last year with the help of advocates like Bruce and Robin. Once it went into effect on New Year's Day, Robin called the manufacturer to demand access to their app.

BOLDUC: They were not prepared. Right. Which - understandably, we're the only state. And it was day one, right? So they were not prepared.

KENNEY: In a committee hearing last year, Tonya Hammatt of National Seating and Mobility, a wheelchair vendor, warned state lawmakers that power wheelchairs are too complex for DIY jobs.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

TONYA HAMMATT: This bill will allow anyone to perform complex repairs to power wheelchairs, which may lead to negative outcomes for the end user.

KENNEY: But after Robin showed Bruce's wheelchair's maker the text of the law, they agreed, sending out two staffers to get the family set up with the internal software.

BOLDUC: They gave me the code to get into the app. We played around. We programmed.

KENNEY: The couple have been tweaking the wheelchair's different modes, searching for the perfect speed for Robin to jog alongside Bruce or the right settings for a steep walking trail.

GOGUEN: It's wonderful. It's very wonderful.

KENNEY: And their success could have broader effects. They've been told the manufacturer is working on a public-facing app for everyone else who wants to use it. The company didn't respond to a request for comment. Meanwhile, right-to-repair laws are gaining momentum around the country, says Kevin O'Reilly of the advocacy group PIRG.

KEVIN O'REILLY: We think that this first bill was the crack in the dam that we needed.

KENNEY: That includes a new bill from Representative Titone that guarantees similar rights for farmers to repair their increasingly high-tech tractors and other equipment. It's poised to clear the state legislature in a matter of weeks. For NPR News, I'm Andrew Kenney.

(SOUNDBITE OF EDAPOLLO'S "BY THE RIVER")

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By: Andrew Doyle

Published: Feb 17, 2024

This is how it begins. “Why not add your pronouns to your email signature?” “Why not announce your pronouns at the beginning of meetings?” “Why not encourage your staff members to ask for pronouns in day-to-day conversation?” After all, it’s just about being compassionate and creating a more “inclusive” work environment. Only a bigot would object to that…

It’s this kind of skewed reasoning that has led to the firing of Fran Itkoff, a 90-year-old volunteer for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, who simply expressed confusion when faced with a request that she add pronouns to her emails. “I had seen it on a couple of letters that had come in after the person’s name”, Itkoff said in an interview, “but I didn’t know what it meant”.

We can hardly be surprised when a nonagenarian is befuddled by this strange new quasi-religious ritual, so rapidly has the practice taken hold. This didn’t stop the National MS Society from turning its back on Itkoff, a volunteer whose commitment to the charity dated back for six decades. For committing heresy against the Holy Creed of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Itkoff was immediately sacrificed. The statement issued by the National MS Society claimed that her query about pronouns was “viewed as not aligning with our policy of inclusion”.

Declaring pronouns makes little sense in any case, given that they are used in place of a name when talking about someone, not to someone. And besides, human beings are perfectly capable of determining someone’s sex without being told, usually instantaneously. Of course, according to activists, all of this is irrelevant. We are assured that sex has been superseded by “gender identity”, that mysterious sense of self that few of us believe even exists. It would be like being told to announce the colour of your aura every time you began a conversation. 

Like the vast majority of the population, I use pronouns to denote the biological sex of the person to whom I’m referring. And I certainly would not comply if commanded to declare my own due to my innate aversion to any form of compelled speech. The lessons of history are clear: when those in authority begin to demand the use of certain phrases, they have taken the first step on the pathway to tyranny. I do not wish to see a future in which we are forced to stand in lockstep and chant the approved slogans of the ruling class. 

Of course, the declaration of pronouns is far removed from any such scenario, but the principle to me is sacrosanct. I will not be told what to say by anyone, least of all those who claim to know what is best for the good of society. Authoritarians have always couched their demands in faux-benevolence, and we have seen how gender ideologues have a particular tendency to viciousness and bullying. “Be kind… or else” is not a maxim to which I am willing to capitulate. 

To ask for pronouns in the workplace is the equivalent of suggesting that employees pledge fealty to a deity they do not worship. It is a kind of test, a way to ensure that the tenets of Critical Social Justice – otherwise known as “wokeness” – are being observed. Spinoza argued that for any man to “be compelled to speak only according to the dictates of the supreme power” is a violation of his “indefeasible natural right” to be “the master of his own thoughts”. Once you agree to make statements in favour of a belief-system you do not hold, you are surrendering your agency to those who will exploit it. 

While the declaration of pronouns remains a purely voluntary matter, it is fair to say that no-one’s free speech is being violated. But the consequences for non-compliance in the workplace are becoming increasingly severe. Members of staff are passed over for promotion, they are smeared as unreconstructed bigots and “transphobes”, and eventually shunned and isolated. I have written before about friends of mine in the acting profession who feel uncomfortable in stating pronouns at the beginning of rehearsals, but know that they are unlikely to be recast if they refuse. This may not be compulsion, but it is coercion.

We see the same phenomenon on social media, where trans rights activists routinely denounce and defame those guilty of the crime of “misgendering”. They report users in the hope of seeing them banned, contact employers and claim to feel “unsafe”, and even occasionally call the police. This is the essence of cancel culture. They are, of course, free to criticise, even in a robust and rude manner. But to seek to destroy someone’s livelihood for their choice of language is fundamentally authoritarian. 

In the same vein, we have seen a handful of gender-critical feminists attacking people online for choosing to use “preferred pronouns” in certain cases. Again, the criticism is valid, but once it strays into the realm of libel, misrepresentation and character assassination, these critics are merely borrowing from the playbook of trans activists. In the tenor of some of these online free-for-alls, it has been difficult to tell one faction from the other. 

When it comes to the declaration of pronouns, I have often wondered how long it would take before requests transformed into demands. The sacking of Fran Itkoff by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society has the ring of inevitability about it. Many of us saw this coming. This is why we need to be vigilant against anyone who attempts to compel the speech of others, for whatever reason, and in whatever context. If we tolerate this inchmeal erosion of our liberties, we will doubtless live to regret it. 

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If you haven't been following it, Fran Itkoff is a 90 year old woman who volunteered for the MS Society for sixty years after her husband had MS (multiple sclerosis). She didn't understand what all this talk about pronouns was about, asked, and was then told her volunteering services were no longer required.

Some of you may well go, "ew, LibsOfTikTok, ew, ew." Okay, but hear me out: shut up and read the screenshots. They tell the story.

Kali Kumor is the stupid little girl who removed a woman who had dedicated her life, and worked longer than this vacuous apparatchik has been alive, to helping others.

One supposes that all the MS in the world has been cured, given how eager they are to tell dedicated volunteers that they're no longer needed.

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A few years ago, there was a fuss about atheists being turned away from volunteering activities.

This is the same principle: adherence to their dogmatic ideology supersedes what is supposed to be their organization's mission and purpose: their "telos". This is why you cannot have two "teloi." One will always win over the other.

This is what I mean by ideological capture. The telos of the MS Society is no longer services and support for those with MS, it's "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion." That's their number one objective. And that means pronoun-policing and excommunicating those who aren't part of the cult.

It would seem both humorous, being so petty and stupid, and sad, given Fran's long service to the organization, but as Andrew Doyle points out, it's more insidious than that. It's compelled speech. It's about punishing those who will decline to be part of - or even simply don't understand - the fundamentalist, puritan religious ideology these fanatics have adopted and imbued throughout the organization.

Just as you must testify to Jesus as your lord and savior in order to volunteer at a soup kitchen or to raise money for cancer, they will demand you adhere to the belief in gender thetans in mismatched meat prisons in order to volunteer for the MS Society. In the name of "Inclusion,"

As Fran mentions, the MS Society has always been inclusive, but what she doesn't understand is that it's now Inclusive™, a brand name which doesn't mean including as many people as possible but including as many members of their cult as possible.

They're not looking for behaviors - e.g. respect, tolerance, etc - they're looking for beliefs. Enforcing a particular ideological belief system. They don't care that you might be an atheist who subscribes to secular humanism, or you could be a Xian who believes we're all children of God, they want to make you believe what they believe.

Resist it. They'll try to act like you're just being unreasonable for a small accommodation, but they know that it's how they get you to start complying with their demands. Like Islam, it's one little thing at a time. Don't draw pictures of Muhammad, that's not a big ask is it? Then it's respecting the Quran, then it's not blaspheming Muhammad or Allah, and so on.

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𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘭 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘮𝘦:

𝘪 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘯𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘔𝘚 (𝑅𝑅𝑀𝒮) 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘣𝘦𝘳. 𝘔𝘚 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘦. 𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘶𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘦, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘴𝘰 𝘧𝘢𝘳 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘔𝘚 𝘪 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘤: 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘴𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬! 𝘪 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘯𝘫𝘰𝘺 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘺 𝘩𝘶𝘴𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘯. 𝘪 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥! <3 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘪’𝘭𝘭 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘶𝘱𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 ! 𝘵𝘳𝘺𝘯𝘢 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳 ! 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘨𝘦! 𝘵𝘺!! <3 𝘹𝘰𝘹𝘰

𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘔𝘚 ! ⋆ ★

[bleunicorn]

it's multiple sclerosis awareness month! this is your chance to donate to your favorite MS charity: ⭐ME⭐

fans of bleunicorn dot tumblr dot com might have been lucky enough to be around in 2016 when i was diagnosed and posting a lot about the weird neurological stuff that was happening. some of that weird stuff only happens when i have a flare (and it's been about 4 years since my last one! yayyyy) and some of it is just part of life now.

MS makes me a very sleepy girl so here's a picture of me being too mentally and physically tired to function while jelly bean comforts me by using my face as a pillow. also a picture of me being inspirational and powerful and going on a hike last weekend. this picture was taken AFTER i attempted a trail that was really difficult for me due to MS symptoms (would've otherwise been easy to moderate) and i sent my neurons into overdrive and thought i was going to die and couldn't continue. but look i PERSEVERED and continued on a different route and still had fun without hurting/endangering myself :) put me on the cover of MS Focus Magazine

heres my venmo if anyone wants to give me some special MS dollars. i also have paypal. full disclosure that i am not in an emergency situation. i am financially secure enough to have reliable access to food, shelter, transportation, medical necessities, etc. i just think if i have to have a dumb disease i should be allowed to make a silly unserious post asking for a few bucks for a lil treat during my special awareness month xoxo

if you'd rather donate to a real MS charity and/or learn more about the disease, please consider the National MS Society and the Multiple Sclerosis Association of America

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

The National Multiple Sclerosis Society is standing by its decision to oust a 90-year-old volunteer because she “did not understand pronouns.”

“Recently, a volunteer, Fran Itkoff, was asked to step away from her role because of statements that were viewed as not aligning with our policy of inclusion,” the nonprofit explained in a statement. “Fran has been a valued member of our volunteer team for more than 60 years.” It continued, “We believe that our staff acted with the best of intentions and did their best to navigate a challenging issue. As an organization, we are in a continued conversation about assuring that our diversity, equity, and inclusion policies evolve in service of…

[brainsafari2]

The National Multiple Sclerosis Society just lost a donor.

[gracie-bird]

Letter from Princess Grace of Monaco to the USA National Multiple Sclerosis Society, dated in 1962.

[graceandfamily]

Grace Kelly lends a hand to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society

TLS, two pages, 6.75 x 6.75, personal letterhead, March 19, 1956. Letter to Ralph C. Glock, in part: "I have been wanting to write to you for some time to extend my sincerest thanks to you and the Society for the scroll and lovely gift that you presented to me. I am deeply grateful and feel very much honored. Bing Crosby is going to Europe this Spring and does not expect to return before June 1st. However, if there is any chance of his returning before that date, he will be in touch with you, but I think it very unlikely. I discussed the matter of the film short with Prince Rainier. Plans had been made in Monaco for the filming and distribution for such a short. There is no way that I can secure exclusive rights for Multiple Sclerosis. However, in discussing this with the Prince, it was decided that a substantial donation could be made from the proceeds of this film." In fine condition, with a paperclip impression to the upper left corner of each page.

Ralph C. Glock was president of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, and visited the set of High Society in 1956 to present Kelly with an illuminated scroll for her work with the charitable organization.

[endearmint-moved]

ID: Meme drawn in ink of someone drinking a comically oversized cup of water while lying in bed. End ID.

i'm sure someone's already done this on their reblog but i'm gonna take the time to list out more medications that cause heat intolerance (a condition where your body can't properly regulate its temperature)

medications that can cause heat intolerance

blood pressure medications, especially thiazide diuretics like chlorthalidone and hydrochlorothiazide, and beta blockers like metoprolol and propanolol

first-generation antihistamines like benadryl. second-generation antihistamines like claritin, zyrtec, and allegra do not cause heat intolerance [link: WebMD article explaining 1st-gen and 2nd-gen difference]

decongestants like sudafed

anticholinergics (overactive bladder medications) like oxybutynin or tolterodine

stimulant medications like adderall and ritalin

tricyclic antidepressants like elavil and pamelor

antipsychotics like haldol or thorazine

dopaminergics like sinemet

the source article [link: SingleCare article] goes into more detail on how the mechanics of the medications causing heat intolerance.

additional info

according to healthline [link: Healthline article], caffeine can potentially cause your body temperature to rise and lead to heat intolerance since it is also a stimulant. the article also warns that people with hyperthyroidism and multiple sclerosis are especially at risk of heat intolerance due to the mechanics of the conditions

the article also advises that people with multiple sclerosis may experience vision problems if having heat intolerance. in fact-checking this, i found an article by the national MS society [link to article] with more information and strategies for dealing with heat

signs of heat intolerance

the same healthline article linked above names the following as signs of heat intolerance:

feeling as though one is overheating

heavy sweating

headache

dizziness

weakness

cramping

nausea

elevated heart rate

signs of heat exhaustion

heat intolerance can progress into heat exhaustion if conditions worsen. here's a non-inclusive list of symptoms courtesy of the mayoclinic [link: article on heat exhaustion]:

cool moist skin with goosebumps when in the heat

heavy sweating

feeling faint

dizziness

fatigue

weak, rapid pulse

low blood pressure upon standing

muscle cramps

nausea

headache

heat exhaustion can progress into heat stroke if conditions worsen, as well. signs of heat stroke include disorientation, loss of consciousness, and a core temperature of 104 F (40 C) or higher

strategies to prevent heat intolerance

carrying and drinking water to stay hydrated

wearing a hat to keep off excess sunlight

avoiding staying outdoors for prolonged periods during the heat

wearing loose fitting, lightweight clothes

avoiding overexertion in hot weather

staying in a cooled environment when possible

taking frequent breaks during intensive activities

please note that this is not a comprehensive guide. please research your medications and health conditions in relation to heat intolerance to be as prepared as possible.

if u take zoloft and/or spironolactone be careful in the hot months u will dehydrate and be prone to overheating. drink. Water

[atomsokc]

September 16, 2023 10:00 am Oklahoma time.

Our MS Journey: A Black MS Community part 1 of 2.

Title: MS Diagnosis In The Black Community

Speaker: Dr. Tirisham Gyang, Ohio State.

Host: The National MS Society