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		<title>My life of Acronyms</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a long time sufferer of AS, a nasty degenerative inflammatory joint disease I have become adept at hiding the daily pain and discomfort from the outside world using mind over matter and Percocet (with a prescription of course). All those years of trying to appear &#8220;normal&#8221; were thrown out the window a week ago [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesporkness.wordpress.com&amp;blog=407772&amp;post=5&amp;subd=thesporkness&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a long time sufferer of <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001457/">AS</a>, a nasty degenerative inflammatory joint disease I have become adept at hiding the daily pain and discomfort from the outside world using mind over matter and Percocet (with a prescription of course). All those years of trying to appear &#8220;normal&#8221; were thrown out the window a week ago when, after a 4 day stint in the hospital I was told I most likely am the lucky recipient of yet another fun acronym, <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001747/">MS</a>.</p>
<p>A final determination will be made after a few more weeks of tests and brain scans where I&#8217;m told, if I&#8217;m lucky it could end up being just a run of the mill brain tumor.<br />
No matter the diagnosis, at least for he time being, my brain has gone all whackadoodle on my hiney. Gone are the days where I could act &#8220;normal&#8221;, or at least normal for me. Now just walking without falling down is a chore, let alone not looking like I&#8217;m a drunk wobbling across the room. My motor skills are all out of sorts you see, so I have added yet another acronym to my life &#8211; BS, as in having both AS and MS is BS, OK?.</p>
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