Tourette’s

Tourette’s Update

Okay, a few wonderful souls keep asking how I’m doing, so here’s the update: The Tourette’s is currently back, in a big way. The most challenging thing about this resurgence is that during my respite, all of my tic muscles and tendons withered up! The body strengthens itself and creates tissue based on whatever movements [...]

February 6, 2012 READ MORE →

What is Sindrome de Tourette?

Sindrome de Tourette is the Spanish name for Tourette’s Syndrome, which is called by several different variations in English, including: Tourette Disease Tourette’s Disease (the apostrophe in there indicates that the disorder is named after someone, in this case, Giles de la Tourette) Tourette Syndrome Terrets Terrets Syndrome But what is Tourettes? In any language, [...]

April 18, 2011 READ MORE →

On Tourette’s Syndrome, Rib Injuries, Tics, Air Quality, and Human Canaries

On October 18  of 2010 I pronounced myself cured of Tourette’s Syndrome and tried to throw myself a parade, but the City would not close down Main Street. So I built a statue of myself  statue and put it in the park, but some vandals decorated it with some poorly constructed sentence fragments. Tsk. The [...]

March 2, 2011 READ MORE →

What Is Turrets Syndrome?

I have had so many people writing to me asking about how I handle “Turrets Syndrome” that I just had to write this quick post for anyone else who is looking it up on the web. The definition of Turrets Syndrome is: a misspelling of Tourette’s Syndrome, or I also occasionally see Sindrome de Tourette. [...]

January 22, 2011 READ MORE →

Tourette’s Syndrome Pictures

From time to time, just to satisfy my own curiosity and try to see what people are saying about Tourette’s, I’ll jump into a couple of SEO tools and see what people are hunting for. I was surprised this week to find that approximately 140 people each month go to a search engine and type [...]

December 30, 2010 READ MORE →

What I Thought MRI Stood For When I Went To The Neurology Clinic

MRI stands for Magnetic Resonance Imaging, although while I was lying in the tube I told myself in stood for Manly, Regal, and Intensely-Intelligently-Irresistible, and that only he who was possessed of those qualities could be invited into the dim, cramped tube of majesty. So… Last Friday I got an MRI. It was my first [...]

December 14, 2010 READ MORE →

Videos From The How To Have Tourette’s Program

I’ve decided to release some of the videos from the How To Have Tourette’s Program that was held at the library a couple of weeks ago. There is about 45 minutes worth of material here, much of which will be familiar to you if you’ve been following the blog. There is about another hour of [...]

November 9, 2010 READ MORE →

Dear Weakness: Better Luck Next Time

Dear Weakness, I’ve decided to tear up the truce we signed yesterday. You are: The fault line and the fissure Tourette’s that never ends The flinch when people stare at me The mourning for what morning used to bring The bridge that gives way to the plunge Quixote without Dulcinea The hidden flaw in the [...]

January 8, 2010 READ MORE →