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🌀 Welcome to the scorched mindscape of a British misfit with MS, a dodgy air-con, and absolutely no time for your telly addiction. Expect sarcasm, storms, and suspicious noises from the fridge. 420, 27 Degrees, and the Wheelchair of Death
It’s 4:20 in the afternoon — and I am, in every possible sense, well and truly baked. The sun’s decided to cosplay as Satan’s armpit, cranking the heat to a ripe 27°C. Not hot, you say? Try sitting in a disabled body that handles heat about as well as a vampire handles sunlight, and we’ll see how long before you start hallucinating the Ice Cream Man as your personal messiah.
Blessed Be the Demon Weed Wacker Today’s miracle? The Demon Weed Wacker — a neighbour, friend, or possibly summoned entity — dug my old air-con unit out of the crypt I call a shed. The fact it actually works is a minor act of divine intervention, akin to Jesus showing up just to top off my water bottle and stick it in the freezer.
Until then, I’d been sitting in front of the fridge. Not even for food — which is all poison anyway, thanks to the MS-induced digestive roulette — but for survival. I was bonding with the butter, staring at a melon like it owed me an explanation for my existence.
Ever sat on the toilet projectile vomiting while simultaneously exploding out the other end, wondering if your intestines are trying to escape your body to start a new life? Add pain in certain areas that shall remain unnamed (but rhymes with "soul-destroying abyss") and you’ve got yourself a medical-themed horror short.
Wheelchair of Death™ and the Conservatory Mistake I considered venturing outside, strapping into the Wheelchair of Death™, that faithful chariot of chaos and squeaky regret. But no. One foot outside and the sun said, “Ah yes, rotisserie human,” and I was done. I staggered into the conservatory like some sweaty Victorian ghost and instantly regretted it. Over 100°F in there. I could’ve slow-cooked a lamb shank in my lap.
Now I’m left with a blinding headache, and the tinnitus is going off like Lemmy himself is playing a comeback gig in my skull. It’s like the gods of rock took personal offence to my brain and decided to hold a festival in my ear canal.
Let There Be Storms There’s a storm rolling in now — proper biblical one by the feel of it. Black clouds, sudden wind, the smell of distant lightning. I love storms. The chaos, the noise, the sky throwing an emotional tantrum. Thunder’s just the Earth screaming, and I get that. I feel seen.
20 Years Without the Idiot Box Random thought: I haven’t watched TV in over 20 years. People look at me like I’ve confessed to eating children. “But what do you do?” Well, for starters, not stare into a flickering box that vomits consumerism and stupidity at epileptic-inducing speed.
With MS, television isn’t “entertainment,” it’s visual torture with background laugh tracks. Give me a silent room, a thunderstorm, and the slow hum of the Wheelchair of Death™ plotting my demise in the hallway.
I’m off to lie in front of the air-con like a roadkill vampire, praying the power holds out. If not, you’ll find me back in the fridge, whispering to the yoghurt and preparing for the next exorcism session in the loo.
Stay baked, stay bitter, and remember — if the food’s poison and the sky’s on fire, it’s probably just another Thursday.
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“The views in this post are based on my personal
experience. I do not intend harm, only honesty.”
“By ink and breath and sacred rage, I write.
By storm and silence, I survive.”
⚡Thanks for reading. If you enjoyed this, you probably need therapy — or a fan. Or both. Come back soon for more tales from the Wheelchair of Death™, the Digestive Apocalypse, and the Conservatory from Hell.
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