Kickas.org Forums Ankylosing Spondylitis General Discussion #1 AS Web Support Group we are quite brave really...

Whew! I thought I was the only stoic individual. I recall an office manager at my former employer once commenting that I always look very stoic. She wanted to know why. I remember telling her that it was because I was always in pain. As stated previously in another response to Alan's post, I'm not proud of this disease, but I'm proud of the way I deal with it.

When I think of you, and AS and hurricanes and no home again and floods and your cheeriness here....yes my dear, you are brave and to be admired for your extreme stocism

Oh I love puns, and must say that yours did not get my back up at all.....

Well i watched Mig eat a waffle covered in maple syrup when last in Toronto......urghhhhh.......droolinf and slurping, ruined her blouse and had to go to bathroom for a shower afterward..........I have said before, you are a breath of fresh air... as for the music well managed 16 bars of a comic song before retiring, i thought it was ok last night but this morning.......noooo not so good


keep those positive posts coming

oy you...........this rumour of stripping is merely that .......a rumour. I am a good boy...lol

Anyway you may find my hobbling limps more attractive and sexually thrilling.......if a limp could ever be such a thing......than my shirtlessness, when I undress for bed each evening, i have to say that i do it in front of a long mirror, thank goodness for the blindfold that I wear cos I cant bear the sight..........thanks Lisa..........stripper indeed.......when you come to england i will give you a private showing.............of my limp......lol

What a fabulous person you are..........an example to us all........I bet you dont get maple syrup on your blouse like our admin..........lol

Thank you for this Possi x

Hi Tim,

yes the silly things folks say, actually you have given me an idea for a post and a survey, I think we should ask everyone for the daft comments they have had to endure about AS, would make an interesting, and no doubt funny almanac. I shall do it this evening.

Now now. England losing on penalties..........arghhhhhhhhh............as if, well we do now and then, well we do more than now and then............well errr...........well yes, we ALWAYS lose on penalties.........arghhhhhh...........lol

So what rhymes with Spondylitis?

Great post, I have often thought about some of the stories in here and we are a brave and inspirational bunch, good of you to put it into words. Since this disease is rooted my genes and I love myself, I must also love AS. There is no me without AS (although there was once, as far as I knew) and although there is no way to have one without the other, I refuse to be defined by it.

well Bethh I was hoping for a symphony but ended the night with 16 bars of diddly diddly doo de toot, but will try again tonight.......was a little reminder last night of all my school reports...'Must do better'..lol

yes, perhaps I mis-worded it by saying 'proud of it' nevertheless all seem to concur that we are jolly proud of the way we deal with it. Non other than a spondylitic appreciates its grimness, that's why we all appreciate the suffering of each other, we have all been there....usually to hell and back.........would be nice to impose AS for a fortnight on your supervisors, they might begin to understand a little.......lol no that would be cruel

Wish I could have put it as succinctly as you have here, yes refuse to be defined by it should be the mantra for all of us. well said


as for rhyming with spondylitis, err, well.....

I would have loved forever
my pair of Aphrodite's
for all I tried i could never
because of my spondylitis



or err


I went and lost it blinking heck
and its flared my spondylitis
bit oh i wish that some one knew
exactly where my 'kite is'


urghhhhh