Dame Helen Mirren looked resplendent in a sweeping gown at the premiere of La Plus Précieuse des marchandises (The Most Precious of Cargoes) during the 77th Cannes Film Festival on Friday.
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I turned into a hottie yesterday, right in the middle of the center aisle of a most proper, button-ed down church, where I was a guest. The formal service had ended, and I was visiting with a few folks before strolling to the door. Then it happened. My face started to sweat. My hair matted to my forehead. I started to feel weak and fumbly (Is that even a word?), while the all-too-familiar vertigo tried to knock me off my feet. As the multiple sclerosis MonSter roared with delight at my misery, I did my darndest to focus on the sweet lady speaking to me. I’m sorry to admit I can’t recall most of what she said. Whew! After a few moments, I excused myself and made my way to the exit for some fresh air. Soon, I recovered. I felt the delicious chill of relief. MS can make one a hottie, but not in the way most people think. It’s not sultry or sexy. It’s just steamy and sweaty. And shaky. The first time this happened to me, I was pretty unsettled. I didn’t understand it. So it seemed scary. Eventually, I learned that this is a common predicament for people with MS. Overheating comes easily to the MSer. And it has nothing to do with the weather or the temperature in the building. The personal meteorological attack can happen fast. One minute the MSer seems perfectly fine. But all of a sudden, her forehead is beading up. His neck is sweating. She’s tugging at the collar of her shirt. He’s shrugging out of his jacket. It’s almost a panicky thing. Then it’s over. And the now-clammy MSer is reaching for a coat or a blanket. Weird hot and cold shifts are not unusual with MS. MSers can run hot and cold without warning. It’s not overeating. It’s not a thyroid thing. It’s not a blood sugar drop. It’s not overexertion. It’s not premenstrual syndrome or menopause. It’s not a panic attack. It’s not even a heart attack, although it can surely feel like one when it hits. It’s as if MS messes with a person’s internal thermostat. Cold isn’t always cold, and hot isn’t always hot. The signals are confused. The wires are crossed (or more accurately, demyelinated). The demyelination that marks MS can cause disruption to nerve signals, essentially confounding the MSer’s perception of hot and cold. We can be overheated or chilled when there seems no logical reason for feeling that way. Hot diggety! This crazy hot-cold shifting happens to me a lot! I know what hot flashes are. I lived through that entire life season. This is something else. It’s called a paroxysm. And it’s real. What’s a paroxysm? It’s a sudden attack that increases a disease’s intensity. Usually, MS paroxysmal symptoms appear intermittently (without rhythm or regularity). But they can be unnerving, embarrassing, and uncomfortable. The good news is that most paroxysms don’t last long. Image/s: Vintage image - public domain Feel free to follow on GooglePlus and Twitter. Please visit my Amazon author page as well. You are invited to join the Kicking MS to the Curb page on Facebook and the Making the Most of MS board on Pinterest.
In the corner of my eye, the light glints off your lacquered nails, red for luck, matching your pepper-red dress dusty-red shoes fire-red soul.
Gareth Bragdon from Scotland shows us his mind blowing photographs on street photography. In this fine Interview with 121clicks.com, Gareth shares some great thoughts on the lines of art and photography. After reading his answers I was really moved and had a great respect to this photographer. Thanks, Gareth for accepting our invitation.
Many photographic techniques, rightfully, tend to focus on polished images. They vary anywhere on the spectrum from getting sharper images to capturing accurate skin tones. These techniques are import
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The images in the background of this month's theme, Slow Motion.
Travis Cannata during a Thierry Mugler fashion show backstage, year unknown
Have you ever wondered how double exposures are done in digital cameras? I have. Back in film days, we knew that to double expose a frame, all you needed to do is rewind it back to the frame you have just exposed, thereby taking two separate shots using one frame of the film. Nowadays with […]
Max Oppenheim and Bill Turpin created a series that pays tribute to mutant yearbook portraits in the comic "Black Hole" by Charles Burns.
Martin Parr, Jack Davison, and Nadine Ijewere are among the more than one hundred British and UK-based photographers participating in an online print sale to support the Trussell Trust — a charity that aids over two-thirds of food banks across the UK
A leap of faith on Tory Island off the northwest coast of County Donegal in Ireland (1995) © Martine Franck on Magnum Photos
Three women who have kidnapped and are interrogating a young businessman.
It's pretty well known and popular for guys in Japan to be androgynous and flaunt their femininity. Many of those in the visual-kei movement...
The word dybbuk is a Yiddishized adaptation of the Hebrew root davek, meaning to cling or to cleave. The term first appears in Genesis.
