so how was your morning?

Here we go!

take a moment to imagine the hairs coming out when the tape was removed

I started writing this earlier when my first Tysabri infusion was underway.

One of the top tips for having a good infusion is to have a good night's sleep. Which obviously was not forthcoming last night.

The journey into hospital was a bit of a handful (a bloody Hardy-esque pathetic fallacy was in full effect once more). Before getting started I found out that my Lymphocyte count was down again, disappointingly - I'd have thought that this should have been sorting itself by now, seeing as I've been off Tecfidera and my wacky Vegan-ish diet for a few weeks now.

After a quick unburdening-of-woes with a lovely MS Nurse, I was hooked up and we were off - following a truly bizarre pit-stop when a different nurse took my blood pressure, my pulse and stuck a thermometer in my ear, all at once.

One lady (clearly a lifer) who was having the same treatment told me what to expect - metallic taste (a la steroids), a dry mouth, tiredness, and feeling headachy with those pesky flu-like symptoms beloved of all MSers everywhere. D'you think there'll ever be a future MS treatment which doesn't list this as a common side effect??

[Post-infusion update: no dodgy taste (although I was pretty much eating non-stop), feel slightly achy and a bit rinsed out. Otherwise, all good and I still feel fine now.]

Here's what I ended up listening to while having my infusion (minus the first course which was last night's episode of The Archers - the only soap opera which I have any time for):

Evinha — Que Bandeira
Nina Nastasia — This Familiar Way
Ween — It's Gonna Be (Alright)
Tom Waits — Falling Down (live)
Grizzly Bear — Wasted Acres
Lambchop — NIV
The Walkmen — My Old Man
The Burning Hell — Industrialists
Lambchop — Harbor Country
Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers — My Love Is a Flower (Just Beginning to Bloom)
The Cramps — Human Fly
Animal Collective — Banshee Beat
Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers — Abdul And Cleopatra
Ween — The Blarney Stone
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever — Wither With You
Nina Nastasia — Lee (Daytrotter Session)
Richard Dawson — Masseuse
Jonathan Richman — Stop This Car
Silver Jews — Pet Politics
Silver Jews — Black and Brown Blues
Silver Jews — Ballad of Reverend War Character