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Tweet me anyway, please? Tweet And now, I introduce to you.............&nbsp; a 2 part email ..........Melanie Miller2 Gimps With 1 Stone - a horrible thing to say, but i'm spent and rushed and neither of those are good for 1 gimp, let alone 2 with or without a stone. Tweet me anyway, please? Tweet And now, I introduce to you.............&nbsp; a 2 part email ............ this time actually with two parts! &nbsp; I.Mel's in an Art Show! TOMORROW! The James Oliver Gallery Presents:"Femme"featuring 18 international artists in a mixed media group exhibition exploring gender – in all its dimensions - the 21st century&nbsp;&nbsp; OPENING RECEPTION, June 18, 6-10PM James Oliver Gallery 723 Chestnut St., 4th floor Philadelphia, PA 19106 www.jamesolivergallery.com jamesolivergallery@gmail.com 267-918-7432 That's me as Old Mel in Bodiverse. And the Gallery Logo... how'd that get there?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [insert mel] And I'm reviving my NeuroDemon-Abandoned "ongoing" project Bodiverse. Reincarnated as a 35-minute non-video-art-video-art work. The short description is: the body; the verse; the universe. The long one's all over the pages of the Bodiverse blog. Just google it, and save me the time of links and all that jazz. After all... I've been IVIg-less since Medicare kicked in May 1. So I can't even see what I'm typing. Keep on, keepin' on.... for details about this awesome group exhibit.&nbsp; [Hint: There's a surprise for you at the end.... not a box of chocolate, but almost as expensive!] [insert gallery]Oliver wanted the artists to have free reign when developing work for “Femme” – an expression both foreign and innate - that conjures thoughts, emotions, images, experiences, and memories as inclusive as they can be exclusive; as intimate and commonplace as they can be political and controversial; timely, post-contemporary, and historical; ideals and ordeals of gender, femininity, or feminism. &nbsp; The variety of mixed-gender artists tackled this broad subject as variously as the artists themselves, resulting in a thought-provoking, intimate ,and universal mixed media exhibition of “Femme” expressed through painting, photography, sculpture, glass, multimedia video, performance, and installation art – as well as the possibility for the on-looker to become art in the show. “Not be be missed,” says James Oliver, gallery owner. Featuring Artists Pete Checchia • Karen Gibson • Anthony DeMelas • Nick Cassway • Ernie Sandidge Melanie Miller • Jesse Beamesderfer • Rick Fichter • Gretchen Diehl Antonia Cianfrani Brady Sanders • Zito • Benjamin Sperry Denise Fike• Erin Etcker • James Oliver • Tom Buildmore [insert Mel: and don't forget]Opening Reception June 18th, 6PM-10PM The exhibit will run through August 20th II.Seeking STRONG BODIES&nbsp;to be in a GIMP THIS! Art Installation.&nbsp;TOMORROW!Also @ James Oliver Gallery's Femme Opening Reception This is what's posted on Craig's List. Get out your reading glasses, press zoom, just be you're super human self, or click on the image and go right to the original post. However you swing your cane, feel free to respond if you know a STRONG &amp; WILLING&nbsp; body, I mean person: could i take any more short cuts?! Thanks all! Pass it on if you can! Yours in Neuroism, Art, &amp; Lights that are way too bright, Melanie &nbsp;PS.&nbsp;The Prize! &nbsp;For being so great and making it to the end, here's a little gift... a very, very, very short excerpt from Bodiverse @ James Oliver Gallery I &nbsp; Subscribe to Neuro DetourNeuro,Neurological,Disease,Transverse,Myelitis,RSD,MS,journal,hospital,health,autoimmune,woman,myelinating,myelin,disorders,incurable,recovery,healing,IV,steroids,plasmapharesis,autonomic,myoclonus,balance,pain,neuropathy,experime2 Gimps With 1 Stone - a horrible thing to say, but i'm spent and rushed and neither of those are good for 1 gimp, let alone 2 with or without a stone. Tweet me anyway, please? Tweet And now,...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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A GRAY LIFE IN A GRAY HOMETOWN NEAR A BEAUTIFUL PARK THAT'S LEFT AND IT SUCKS: a tangent from the quickie, for those who like it longer and, yes, it's appropriate here, harder At "home" - a gray IV pole stands on gray basement carpet, and a devastatingly glorious neighborhood view - despite its classification as The City. Backyards with old wood fences, naked trees, preceded by bigger and older naked trees that circuitously lead to any one of its ubiquitous natural parks that changed me, that changed my world. Once upon a time, Frick Park was my mistress, my paramour, my other half. Always my lifeline, I wouldn't live anywhere that wasn't within walking distance to one of its entrances. Now, no matter what the season, it's too rich with tiny mountains of stony hills and narrow sloping paths, where I, probably not alone, walked right into daily peace, a heavy-breathed hike that gifted me with revelatory visions of dances completed and personal philosophies blossomed into manifestos. Every inhale and exhale, each person, each animal passing by, an accidental conversation with a stranger, or a friend you've known for years but never knew your shared adoration for the trails and all its live-in animals and bugs and all the people and animals that visited daily or infrequently to get their dose of whatever the Appalachian's remnants gave them. Unlike me, Frick park was protected by the city's old wealth, which also happened to share its name and closet many unpunished atrocities. I guess that for every death resulted from their whim of the week, they must have planted a tree, the only penance they knew how to live with, and the gray city slowly became a little bit greener. Being in Pittsburgh, now 4 weeks and counting, for a balanced mix of medical and familial demands, and sitting here in the gray basement ala bedsit with Frick Park less than 2 miles away, is like knowing your High school sweetheart, who you married after college, and you lived in love in a beautiful house in a beautiful city with beautiful friends that you made together, and at 30 he left you just because, or that's what you tell yourself to make it easier to accept. No matter the reason. It fucking sucks. Even though Frick Park and the Fricks' endowments actually supported me with commissions and performance fees, and their grounds and homes and galleries are nearby, we are separated, and that's not my choosing. Do you know that feeling? Of something broken that you want to fix, and you have almost all the pieces and almost all the tools, but you're screwed because those missing bits are exactly what you need to fix, to get back what you want, that something that's almost whole, but you're powerless, because you just don't have everything that it takes to get what you want; to have the life that you spent your entire life creating. When the Neuro Gods struck, they bankrupted me and took my Frick Park. &nbsp; AND OUT OF THE WOODS: There's a world in disguise, or inside of (me)... Although I have a backlog of about 5 posts (just counting those here in neuro land) that still need editing**, finished thoughts lost in neuro black holes, and a little TLC before I release them to you, I wanted to send out a quick update about my latest "quickie" and otherNeuro,Neurological,Disease,Transverse,Myelitis,RSD,MS,journal,hospital,health,autoimmune,woman,myelinating,myelin,disorders,incurable,recovery,healing,IV,steroids,plasmapharesis,autonomic,myoclonus,balance,pain,neuropathy,experimeHey Yinz* Guys, Pittsburgh: as Seen in Tourism Brochures I'm writing you from Allegheny's county seat: the grave Pittsburgh of gray skies and killer rivers; of old wealth and Welfare; 446...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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See yinz in 'da burgh an''at.Subscribe to Neuro Detour<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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Mel's recording skills 0. This was actually a 9 minute video, so apologies in advance for its utter uselessness, except to let you know that I am both still alive and getting...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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So, here it is, in the best...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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ALSO, even though yesterday was the official Scatterneuries deadline, I'll extend it until Monday for those of you who are dying to take part in this brand new online game. This one is boobalicious. ***** UPDATE 7Melanie MillerMois...coming down from ketamine...again. ALSO, even though yesterday was the official Scatterneuries deadline, I'll extend it until Monday for those of you who are dying to take part in this brand new online game. This one is boobalicious. ***** UPDATE 7.16.10 With 2 weeks of plasmapharesis, followed by a nerve block surgery (link warning: video of actual procedure) of my left arm, and 2 days of ketamine boosters, I have not felt this good in a while. My pain is down to a 6, and I'm actually able to enjoy being awake, walking around, and I'm going to paint today for the first time since this last flare-up, which started over 2 months ago. Unfortunately, my ketamine boosters will be further apart from now on because the drug can cause liver damage (and it's basic scheduling protocol), and if my LFTs are adversely effected, I can not get treatment for 6 months. Since I've been receiving ketamine, the positive affects (if any) have lasted no longer than 1.5 weeks before they started to dwindle. This last month-long wait was excruciating. I don't know what to expect, or how I will handle, managing my pain with this longer break between infusions. Normally, follow up boosters at this stage are every 3 months, however, we're going to try for every 2 and hope that my liver can take it. But since the nerve block worked, I'll probably be getting one every 3-4 weeks. The good news is, the doc, Dr. Goldberg aka Dr. G, is super cool - like hip hipster in scrubs cool, the hospital in Camden, NJ is actually gorgeous (despite its location) and amazingly stylish for such an icky institution, and they have the best hand sanitizer I've ever used.Subscribe to Neuro DetourNeuro,Neurological,Disease,Transverse,Myelitis,RSD,MS,journal,hospital,health,autoimmune,woman,myelinating,myelin,disorders,incurable,recovery,healing,IV,steroids,plasmapharesis,autonomic,myoclonus,balance,pain,neuropathy,experimeMois...coming down from ketamine...again. ALSO, even though yesterday was the official Scatterneuries deadline, I'll extend it until Monday for those of you who are dying to take part in...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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Also, if your vision sucks like mine or you're a lazy m.f. and you just want to look at thMelanie MillerAUTHOR'S EPITAPHIGRAM: You can read my ramblings and get a giggle or 27, or you can be a lame ass and just click on the post title above to read the entire article. Also, if your vision sucks like mine or you're a lazy m.f. and you just want to look at the interactive graphic timeline, which, like THIS BLOG POST, you can share the love on Facebook, Twitter, and many of your social networking sites. But be warned, if you take this route, I'll hunt you down and find a way to make all those stupid people that think neurological disorders are contagious correct. So, carry on. And enjoy! ****************************************** According to an article by Peter Landers in The Wall Street Journal, " research into ancient Chinese fungus that propagates inside insects yields potential relief for multiple sclerosis." GIVE ME MY BUG GUTS! Many of us may already be gimps (aka raspberry ripples - love this newly "learnt" British Slang - so tasty!) , we may be comprised of plasma and proteins of 10s of 1000s of strangers, and soon, we may be bug guts too. As a professional TM/MS/RSD-er, I be well-school [sic(k)] in the cross- over of side effects, disabilities, and treatments. For example, the IVIg that I've been receiving regularly (up to to 5 days every other week) to treat, originally, my Transverse Myelitis (TM), also is used to treat many Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients, AND NOW has been found to provide relief to Chronic Regional Pain (CRPS aka RSD) patients. Even though IVIg's become holy grail of fixed trifectas, many insurance companies, including the profanely corrupt AETNA and some Blue Cross/Blue Shield's (to name just two super-sized crooked crook companies), REFUSE to PROVIDE COVERAGE for this pertinent treatment, even when there are no other options. I've witnessed it too - all of it. After receiving IVIg for the first time, a dear friend with Stage 4 RSD who has gone through 2 Ketamine Comas (I receive an Americanized watered-down autocratic FDA-version of this treatment) in Germany only to receive short-term remissions, gained an 80% relief in pain, and in RSD percentages that's like erasing 10 natural child-births from your body at once. And of course, her BC/BS refuses to cover home infusion of IVIg, so she must travel 2 hours to receive it in-patient - totally unnecessary and totally fiscally irresponsible and wasteful. Surprise, surprise. If all entrepreneurs thought like insurance companies, we'd live in an ugly, ugly world my friends. OK, back to the bug. NATURAL HEALING The article validates much of what Chinese medicine and Complimentary Alternative Medicine (CAM) has to offer: For centuries Chinese medicine has seen restorative properties in an Asian fungus that invades and destroys insects. Now a drug drawing on that age-old lore is poised to become an important new treatment for multiple sclerosis. A Food and Drug Administration panel unanimously recommended this month that the drug called fingolimod be approved as the first oral medicine for MS, an often-debilitating disease in which the body's own immune system attacks a fatty substance protecting nerve fibers. The drug, assuming it gets final FDA approval, would significantly expand the treatment options for the hundreds of thousands of Americans with MS. Nature was the first source of medicines to treat human disease and remains an important one. The Japanese scientists who discovered fingolimod added their names to a list that goes back to the European chemists who derived aspirin from a substance in willow bark and Alexander Fleming, who found that a fungus produced a bacteria-killing substance called penicillin. TIME TRAVEL We'll probably have to go to Canada or Mexico to get access to this crunchy, winged medical miracle in our lifetime (OK, I may be exaggerating a big...how 'bout in the next decade), but it may be worth the trip. And boy, do I need a vacation. Mexico would be perfect if heat weren't so debilitating for us MS/TMers. Quebec would be gorNeuro,Neurological,Disease,Transverse,Myelitis,RSD,MS,journal,hospital,health,autoimmune,woman,myelinating,myelin,disorders,incurable,recovery,healing,IV,steroids,plasmapharesis,autonomic,myoclonus,balance,pain,neuropathy,experimeAUTHOR'S EPITAPHIGRAM: You can read my ramblings and get a giggle or 27, or you can be a lame ass and just click on the post title above to read the entire article. Also, if your vision sucks like...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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JUDGE: My Doc Learn the rules and reasons for "Let's Play! Scatterneuries!!" Melanie is one swollen boob smaller...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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Scatterneuries!!, right here on neuro detour, that you, yes YOU, can play whenever you want. Every 1-4 weeks a new Q&amp;A,...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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Written by an AP writer on healthcare, based out of DC, this...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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About 1 month past my 33rd birthday - when I had danced in my fave platform sandals that highlighted my modeled calves and thighs, partied among a collection of mismatched and matriculated friends,Melanie MillerPREAMBLE...you may've heard it before, but hear it again. About 1 month past my 33rd birthday - when I had danced in my fave platform sandals that highlighted my modeled calves and thighs, partied among a collection of mismatched and matriculated friends, drank wine, ate with a full appetite both for food and life, drank more wine, and snuck hand-holding with man of the month (not my month, but his) - I found myself lodged in an unexpected world, a trip and tripping...2 Septembers ago, 4 weeks past a month of unfathomable, unnameable outer-body, outer-mind, outer-control-of-my-own physical and mental experiences - from street-spinning vertigo, buckling knees, emergency room visits, public incontinence, and finally partial paralysis and full-body pain and sensitivity making walking nearly impossible - I had the luck, yes I said luck, of receiving a swift and accurate, yet unexpected and unheard of diagnosis - Transverse Myelitis (TM). Immediately hospitalized for more than a week on 1000mg of IV steroids and myriad tests, my doctor was hopeful, or at least he used his doctorly knowledge of the benefit of hope to tell me, I'd be back to normal in a couple of weeks - back to dancing, boyfriends - as many as I wanted, and my job - those things we call freedom. In those two weeks, my condition worsened and with ongoing steroids stealing my sleep, I had the time and (still) the mental capacity to research this strange and rare condition. Within less than 2 weeks, I was back in the hospital; this time for two weeks receiving two treatments to cleanse my body of the angry antibodies that were attacking my nervous system and spinal chord. LIBERACE WAS MY CO-PILOT I had lived a life of luxury - not financial, but emotional, experimental, risk-taking, following my humble choreographer's vision to change the world, or at least, a few square miles of it with the communicative and evocative power that only the body in architected motion and meaning, and the mind dedicated and directed in devoted poetic outreach and activism. Why was my body, that for nearly a lifetime I had sculpted, strengthened, and serviced like a mustang and its overzealous owner, so angry at me? BACK TO SICK BAY...sea sickness and docking The second round of in-patient treatments - plasmapharesis followed by IVIg - helped, but didn't fulfill my doctor's promise. He changed his prognosis to a long, arduous 2-year recovery period, yielding an undefinable prognosis. However, Dr. S promised he would do everything he could to bring me into the realm of the top 30 percentile of TM recoveries, returning me to my previously full-body control state - bladder and all - or at least as close to it as possible. The 2nd third promised minimal or no change, and the bottom third, a bedridden lifetime or ceaseless paralysis. Since the first symptoms appeared about a week past my birthday, I figured by 34 or 35, my struggle would be over; the prognosis finalized, I'd pick up the pieces, work with what I had, and get back to a normal life - fleeced of uncomfortable and time-consuming treatments and a body in revolt. AND BACK ON THE GORGE(S) That actuality almost ended one day before my next birthday, when the second diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) was confirmed and delivered. Although closely related to TM, 97% of people with TM, especially those that fall in the 1st 30 percentile continue throughout the "recovery period" to experience recovery, while MS, for most is forever degenerative. Even though I didn't yet fit in that tantalizing 30% TM category with new symtpoms popping like movie corn, and old symptoms ebbing and flowing, my doctor and I still had hope, and he still promised things will get better - at least on the TM side. But now there was not only TM and its accompanied autoimmune encephalitis that clouded my cognition and former intellectual musings and doings, but there was MS. One with an up-view, one with a down-view, and possibly both just waffling along on a fixed Neuro,Neurological,Disease,Transverse,Myelitis,RSD,MS,journal,hospital,health,autoimmune,woman,myelinating,myelin,disorders,incurable,recovery,healing,IV,steroids,plasmapharesis,autonomic,myoclonus,balance,pain,neuropathy,experimePREAMBLE...you may've heard it before, but hear it again. About 1 month past my 33rd birthday - when I had danced in my fave platform sandals that highlighted my modeled calves and thighs, partied...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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Jeez, that sentence is about as close as I can get to doing the running man - another requirement of being a cheesy pop star. Aside from all the obvious just-becauses, such as: you're a-glamour-gimp-that-"dances"-to-a-really-really-really-different-drummerhoney-you'll-never-be-Cindy-Whitney-Britney-or-Barry Manilow-for-that-matterchances-are-you'll-be-sleeping-when-you-should-be-giggingnice-Jewish-girls-don't-show-their-Lady-Gaga-in-publicgirl-you just wanna have fun- shuuuut uuuuuu'I miss being a performer. I WANT THAT OUTFIT When I see cheesy pop stars performing on late night TV or in over-sexed videos dubbed over in German on You Tube, I want that leather jacket. I want an excuse other than, my brain is losing my vision to wear my sunglasses at night. (You know I can't resist....:) AND, even though I thought I was ready to hang up my callused feet at 30 when my body gave me no other option, I miss being a performer. I could say, I miss being a dancer, but that's just too obvious, and I'm not sure if that's as accurate either. To be or not to be? Well, if whoever actually wrote that question was a performer, they'd know the answer. When I was a performer, avant-garde and wacky as I was - whether it was dancing down the aisles in a paid performance at Whole Foods; rolling across the Benedum stage with the duke in Rigoletto (I even got a "nymph" (really, that was the title of my role) shout-out for the saucy sexiness of that in the review); dancing in my own works on small stages (for small audiences), street corners, and strange site-specific locations; or the handful of poetry readings that I gave... [OK, Melanie, we GET it] I "t0-be'd", i.e., to perform is to be mortal, or philosophically immortal (don't worry, I'm not gonna go there...again). DANCING QUEEN I existed! I was alive! Of course I was, I must have been if I were breathing that heavily. I actually liked to sweat, altho I could have lived without the slick glaze it mummified into as the clock struck 3 mojitos past post-performance. I loved it all - from plies to performance. I secretly even liked the reviews - except for the bad ones, and luckily my career was cut short before I accrued more than 1 accost to my baby, my vision, my work, my lover (if you haven't figured it out, all of the previous my...s are referring to the SAME thing). Bad review = devastation, yes. But, the show must go on, and it always did. And, the drama. Oh, the drama! There was usually more drama back stage than on stage, and 'tho as the director, I actually hated that part, I suffered through it for the ultimate payoff: To be a performer. To make an impact. To share my joy with the thousands who travelled through the past-lives of my outreach work. Aaaannnnd, if I were a pop star, I could truly say, my life sucks but I rock, with literal integrity. ...AND THEN THERE WAS A HIT HARDER THAN ANY BAD REVIEW That "hit" would be the neuro hit that keeps on hitting. My dear fellow sickos: if you're anything like me, you probably often feel as though you barely exist. If it weren't for the pain that reminds me my body is a body - as in human body and not all the other possible definitions of body that I'm too lazy to turn into cheeky, cheesy, pop star-worthy prose. As a performer, I was real. As a performer, I mattered (to a select few give or take...). As a performer, I breathed deeply. As a performer, I controlled my body. As a performer, I had a bangin' body. Damn, I miss those days. And I miss Neuro,Neurological,Disease,Transverse,Myelitis,RSD,MS,journal,hospital,health,autoimmune,woman,myelinating,myelin,disorders,incurable,recovery,healing,IV,steroids,plasmapharesis,autonomic,myoclonus,balance,pain,neuropathy,experimeLA-LA-LA-LA-LAAAAA Despite the fact that I can't carry a note - the musical kind that requires born-to-be-heard-when-a-bomb-is-not-being-deployed vocal chords nor the physical kind that requires...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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Haha! Subscribe to Neuro DetourMelanie Miller...and fr those of you you who don't understand that there is no end until you've scrolled there, I managed to capture today's report in one single shot. Haha! Subscribe to Neuro DetourNeuro,Neurological,Disease,Transverse,Myelitis,RSD,MS,journal,hospital,health,autoimmune,woman,myelinating,myelin,disorders,incurable,recovery,healing,IV,steroids,plasmapharesis,autonomic,myoclonus,balance,pain,neuropathy,experime...and fr those of you you who don't understand that there is no end until you've scrolled there, I managed to capture today's report in one single shot. Haha! Subscribe to Neuro Detour<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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