It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like MS :-)

[Lulu54]

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot like MS
-Sung to the tune of “Its Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas”

It’s beginning to look a lot like MS
Everywhere we go
The labs are all negative,  except my LP is affirmative
With my  o-bands neatly  lined up in a row.


It’s beginning to look a lot like MS
Soon the diagnosis will be in,
Familiar symptoms that can bring the diagnostic words that make me sing
Right there on my medical chart.





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[Lulu54]

This is my continuing holiday spirits throwdown challenge - pick a classic tune we all know and rewrite the lyrics for our MS forum.... are you up for the challenge? If so, post it here on this thread so they all stay together.


Laughing all the way,
Lulu

[Lulu54]

Here's my next one - I am procrastinating from really important tasks by writing these lyrics. - Lulu

Dozens of Pills

(to the tune of Jingle Bells)

Dashing to the docs,
with my hopes still running high
I’m looking for relief,  
So many drugs to try.
My legs they feel like  lead,
my pain’s not in my head
And so I go from doc to doc
Looking for a cure that I won’t dread.

(refrain)
Oh, Baclofen,  Elavil,
Keppra or Gabitril.
I don’t care what name it’s called
or if it’s a shot or pill.
Lyrica, Topomax,
Clonidine or Vicodin.
I’ll try them all,
if they don’t make me ill
Just where do we begin?

2nd verse
A month or two ago,
I thought I’d give a try
To control my bladder urges
I need a miracle to keep me dry.
My colon’s not much better
Unpredictable as it is
That’s when the doctor stepped it up
Now I keep the pharmaceuticals all in biz.

(Chorus)
Oh,  Restoril , Terzosin,
Hytrin and Dulcolax.
I don’t care what type it is.
Over the counter or by RX.
Dantrium, Toframiol
Colace or Miralax.
However it works,
Please let it work!
As long as it lifts this hex.

[Quixotic1]

Lulu - That was genius!!

My attempt for Jingle Bells died at inception:

Jangled Nerves, Jangled Nerves
Zapping all the way...
                               ......   can some one else finish it?


Oh, for a few 6-worders

Q

[saveone]

Jangled Nerves, Jangled Nerves
Zapping all the way...

oh how tired I can get when I work or play, hay

Jangled Nerves, Jangled Nerves....

[Lulu54]

So Q- do I remember that your family has a mandatory sing along for Christmas?  Perhaps a few new carols could become family favorites!!  LOL

Jangles Nerves, Jangles Nerves,
Frayed and fried and dead...

(that's my contribution to the next line!)

[saveone]

That's funny.  It made me laugh.  I got this picture in my head of me when I feel Frayed and fried and dead. I feel kinda of like the crabby old lady from the cartoons who always has a retort...I can't remember her name.

Still Smiling



Jangled Nerves, Jangled Nerves
Zapping all the way...

oh how tired I can get when I work or play, hay

Jangles Nerves, Jangles Nerves,
Frayed and fried and dead...

Oh what can I do tonight to clear my fog clogged head

[Quixotic1]

Nadine??

[Quixotic1]

A Sing-A-Long??  Oh, I don't think so.  I can just see me belting something out, my sister telling me I'm flat!, my dad hopelessly off-key and my mom too shy to open her mouth and the nieces laughing hysterically.  Nope.  Not gonna happen.

Good job with my start.

[doublevision1]

I am laughing out loud at your rendition of Jingle Bells.  Brilliant!!  Keep 'em coming!

[doublevision1]

I have a little one!

"Stuck at home with MS"

[sung to the tune of  "I''ll Be Home For Christmas"}

Stuck at home with MS
You can’t count on me
Please stop at the pharmacy
For shots I need daily

MS always finds me
Can’t hide from it, it seems
I’m at home with MS
If only this were a bad dream!

[Lulu54]

Bravo DV - its good to see you get into the spirit.  That's always been one of my favorites - makes me stop and think of all those WWII guys in the trenches - actually it is very sad now that I think of it.  Oh well, so much for the jollies!  

All this caroling has me in the spirit and I have been mixing my cookie dough for baking tomorrow and the next day.  

Keep it up - MAXINE would be proud!
lu

[mokibear]

What talent we have on the forum!! I'm not real good at this but I'll give it a stab.

Sing to Silent Night

Silent Neuro
Diagnosis Zero

Frustrated to be
alone in this place

If not for this forum
There would be no smile on my face

Blessed are the people here
who have filled my empty space

Thanks to all who have helped me through
A limbo lander wants to say thanks & I love you!!

Happy Holidays All
Moki

[saveone]

Standing ovation!  Bravo...Bravo

Yes Virgina it is Maxine  

[Lulu54]

Here's one for our forum members celebrating the second day of Hanukkah -


The Disease Song
(to The Dreidel Song)


I have a little disease
It makes me ill each day
So maybe it is MS
From this thought I do not stray


CHORUS
Oh Do I, Don’t I , Do I
This is what I say
And when the neuro’s ready
I’ll learn which way he sways.


It affects my body
Makes my legs stop and go
And when I get too tired
I drop and my MS shows.

CHORUS
Oh Do I, Don’t I , Do I
This is what I say
And when the neuro’s ready
I’ll learn which way he sways.

My MS is always present
I’d love to dance and spin
But I have to sit and wait here
much to my chagrin!


CHORUS
Oh Do I, Don’t I, Do I
This is what I say
And when the neuro’s ready
I’ll learn which way he sways.

[Lulu54]

Bravo Moki - glad to see you come out of hibernation and stretch those creative bones.  Well done.

All - the Dreidel song came to me because I had on our local NPR station while I was mixing cookie dough.  They are doing an all evening celebration of Hanukkah and I just listened to almost a full hour of Klezmer music. Sometimes festive but always emotive.  Nothing like  a wailing clarinet and loud Yiddish lyrics which I don't understand, to put me in the mood...........

[Sarahsmom46]

I loved your rendition of the "Dreidel Song" with its MS theme.  We'll sing it tonight after we light the candles.  I think you may have started a new tradition in our family.  I have got to share this with my friend who is Jewish and has MS.  She will appreciate it - LOL!

Julie

[GrannyJo6]

OK, I couldn't resist:
to the tune of White Christmas

I'm dreaming of a healthy lifestyle
one with no MS disease in sight
where the canes are few,
the legs are like new,
and everyone sees and hears so well.

I'm dreaming of a healthy lifestyle
where nerves are never frayed or fried,
where our limbs don't quiver,
and all is well with our liver,
and pills and shots are never used.

[saveone]

Smiling and clapping

Happy Holidays

terry

[Lulu54]

Thanks for jumping into the spirit of the holiday throwdown.

Happy Christmas to all - be safe this holiday eve.
with love to spread to everyone,
Lulu

[singinalong]

That is so awesome!!! All your songs were great!! :) Uplifted my spirits. Thank you!!
Merry Christmas!
Happy New Year to All!!
love Shari

[Lulu54]

All,

I was mixing up some cookies tonight for an annual cookie exchange - need 12 dozen for Saturday - and was thinking about holiday tunes.  That made me think of this post from last year.

I had to dust it off and offer it up for the season.

Hopefully you will enjoy the tunes and even add a new one or two to the playlist.  I'm thinking of some more to add.

ho, ho, ho!
Lulu

[ErinZoe23]

Okay i read this and was cracking up  So heres my attempt of jingle bells  i took 5 minutes on this so might be a little rough! lol

Dashing through the halls in a one leg kinda of  hop
Over our feet we fall
Laughing all the way hahahah  
Nerves on crack I think   Making us think twice

O what these neuros got to say Maybe MS or life
Oooooo

Ms flare MS flares Ms all the way
O Wat fun it is too see what my neuros will call you today
ms flares ms flares ms all the way
I wonder what kind of game you have next for me to play


A day or two ago I thought I was just fine
But soon this lil pain
Was seated in my brain
The lesion was lean and long
Misfortune on my side
It got into my brain stem
And gave me quite a frite
Ooooo

Ms lesion ms lesions ms all the way
Are you really there today or gone hidden away
Ms lesions me lesions ms all the way
One day u decide to be active but the mri says no way

Now some time has past
They say it is still young
No proof to hand me yet
Just go with all these drugs
Just take a shot a day
270 pills a month
Theres a 50 percent chance youll be okay or make ur liver a dump

Oooo ms meds ms meds pls just go away
I don’t even know if I should be taken u or throwen em away
Ms meds ms meds pls just go away
Im taking meds for a disease that they don’t even no how it behaves

[Lulu54]

Erin, that was great!  I especially like your last verse .... bravo!

my best,
L

[Lulu54]

Do I Have What you Have?
(to the tune of Do You Hear What I Hear)

Wrote  the newbie to the forum here,
Do I have what you have?
Could it be MS, tell me please.
Do I have what you have?
Demyelinating disease could be lurking in my brain
With symptoms that only I  see,
With symptoms that only I see.

Said the newbie to the people here,
Do you know what I have?
Share it with me now , would you please.
Do you know what I have?
This disease, dreaded disease makes no sense to me
Let it be anything other than MS.
Let it be anything other than MS.