Saturday, 8 October 2016

Confused signals

This blog is usually concerned with putting the world to rights. Journalists always think they know how to run the world better than those who actually do.
Today, it is about me. I have been diagnosed with a form of motor neurone disease. The nerves which take signals from my brain to my muscles are failing.
The only symptom so far is my voice. The muscles which control it are getting confused signals. They do the best they can, but the sound is not as mellifluous as it was.
Everything else works fine. It will not always be so.
My mother died of motor neurone disease. It took two years from diagnosis to death in the 1980s. Since then, cancer outcomes are much better. Motor neurone outcomes are not.
The world will have to work out how to get along without my advice.