JosiahManning
Well-known member
Fellow BFS Travelers:I'm upgrading to "occasional lurker" status. 
Indeed, I shall occasionally check up on this site--which was a Godsend to me during my dark times last summer--but methinks it is time for me to be moving on to other things (like family, professional life, and of course--my aspiring modeling career 
). Yes, I still have my rough days--particularly with speech--but they get are getting fewer and further between. It occurred to me, when I did a bible reading on Christmas Eve, and I had a half a dozen people come up afterwards and compliment me on the strength of my voice and my skill as an orator, that though I may stumble occasionally, my speech is fundamentally fine. People with bulbar onset don't tend to stay amazing orators for long, and I'm going on 8 months of this now. So, in the immortal words of Bob Marley, I've accepted, finally, that "every little thing is gonna be all right". I still twitch, buzz and the like, and my running isn't what it used to be, but I'm okay with it. I've accepted, as many of you have, and hopefully all of you eventually will, that our condition is a royal pain in the patootie (yes, the technical term, just ask Basso), but nothing that is going to kill me (or you). Life is precious, and I'm moving on.I'm not a doctor (though I did play "doctor" a fair amount as a child, hmmm ), but I think there are few things more worthwhile in life than helping to heal others. If I can ever help any of you, please feel free to PM me. And if I ever have a "flare" and start doubting (which I am going try very hard not to do), I know you good folks will be there to pick me up, tell me to quit worrying, and put me back on a positive track again.God Bless,JosiahManning
Indeed, I shall occasionally check up on this site--which was a Godsend to me during my dark times last summer--but methinks it is time for me to be moving on to other things (like family, professional life, and of course--my aspiring modeling career ). Yes, I still have my rough days--particularly with speech--but they get are getting fewer and further between. It occurred to me, when I did a bible reading on Christmas Eve, and I had a half a dozen people come up afterwards and compliment me on the strength of my voice and my skill as an orator, that though I may stumble occasionally, my speech is fundamentally fine. People with bulbar onset don't tend to stay amazing orators for long, and I'm going on 8 months of this now. So, in the immortal words of Bob Marley, I've accepted, finally, that "every little thing is gonna be all right". I still twitch, buzz and the like, and my running isn't what it used to be, but I'm okay with it. I've accepted, as many of you have, and hopefully all of you eventually will, that our condition is a royal pain in the patootie (yes, the technical term, just ask Basso), but nothing that is going to kill me (or you). Life is precious, and I'm moving on.I'm not a doctor (though I did play "doctor" a fair amount as a child, hmmm ), but I think there are few things more worthwhile in life than helping to heal others. If I can ever help any of you, please feel free to PM me. And if I ever have a "flare" and start doubting (which I am going try very hard not to do), I know you good folks will be there to pick me up, tell me to quit worrying, and put me back on a positive track again.God Bless,JosiahManning
)Basso, you do not have to bring sexy back, on you it never left.ristinaL91