Friday 18 May 2012

HADDOCKS ANONYMOUS

A few years ago, I published a comic strip in a local magazine. The strip was called HADDOCKS ANONYMOUS. I never tried to publish it more widely, and eventually became so busy I stopped drawing it. But hey... why not?... why don't I put a few of these strips here, just for your entertainment.

As someone who has personally battled addiction in younger days, the strip deals with the various foibles of 12-step groups (which, don't get me wrong, saved my life). Nonetheless, I'd be lying if I said that humorous things don't go on in those rooms.

Anyway, this here was the inaugeral strip that I published way back when.  I hope you enjoy it, and others to follow from time to time... just for laughs.


Let me know what you think by leaving a comment.

Thanks,

Kevin

Results of Fibro Opinion Poll #2

So... it's been over a month (almost 7 weeks) since I asked people visiting my site what treatment is helping them with their fibro the most... so here are the results. And, might I say, they surprise me a bit.

Anyway, here they are:


As you can see, the treatment felt to be most helpful by the largest percentage (the majority, in fact) was prescribed medication. This surprises me, as a previous large survey conducted by the American Fibromyalgia Syndrome Association (AFSA) found massage to be the treatment felt to be helpful by the largest percentage (rated helpful by 70%). Most prescribed medications only were felt to help about 30%.

Admittedly, however, the two polls were asking different questions. AFSA asked people to list ALL treatments they felt to be helpful; and they listed drugs individually. I asked what ONE treatment was MOST helpful for you (so you could only choose one), and lumped all drugs together.

Hmmm!

The next logical question is: If prescribed medications are MOST helpful, which ones are MOST helpful? And this will be the question I ask in the next poll. 

So... give me a few minutes... tick, tick, tick, tick... so I can go back and change the poll question on my website, and then visit my website - http://thefibrofog.com/ - and tell me, and other readers, what prescibed medication has helped you most (or if none of them have). 

I look forward to hearing from you.


Kevin White, MD, PhD
Award-Winning Author and Speaker


Thursday 17 May 2012

I'm Baaaaack!

Once again, I apologize to all my readers for having been absent from the blogging scene for the past month or so. I literally have just gone through the worst flu of my LIFE! I won't go into all the details... but 6 weeks and I'm still not 100% yet. I have been well enough to return to the office, though, and now I will start blogging again. I also will be working on the Spring Newsletter and hope to have it out next week as well.

Yesterday, I posted my first YouTube video in a month, which really makes more sense to watch while you're on the home page of my website at http://thefibrofog.com. Otherwise, you're going to see me pointing all over the place, seemingly totally at random, as if I'm having a seizure.DO check it out, though, because there's humour in it and I even do a little bit of magic (Take THAT, Voldemort!)

Not to mix apples with rutabagas (whatever the heck they are), in my next blog I will reveal (poof! There's that magic thing again) the results of my latest web poll: what treatment has helped you the most? The results are somewhat surprising, at least to me.  And they will lead to the next logical poll question, which I will reveal (poof!) in the NEXT blog (ain't I annoying!!!)

I intend to post another video and blog soon about 'The Hidden How To', which is something I talked about when I gave a series of talks in England at the start of April.

I also have promised people to do blogs soon on (1) fibromyalgia and hypermobility syndromes; and (2) fibromyalgia in men. So they will appear in the next few weeks.

And I have a couple of songs I plan to share with you soon (including one really pretty and inspirational one called 'In Hard Times' that I believe you will enjoy); as well as a comic strip I published a few years ago and am now going to share with you called 'Haddochs Anonymous'.  It's actually pretty funny, so I've been told.

And, come July, I will post a tribute to the late great Harry Chapin, who died on July 16th, 1981. I cried that day, because of the absolutely wonderful musician and humanitarian the world lost.

So anyway... once again... I am back. I look forward to providing you with lots of information, entertainment, support, and inspiration in the coming weeks. Thanks again for having been so patient.

Kevin
http://thefibrofog.com
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