So I have eventuallly published my book, Attitude Is Everything - My MS Story. It was a serious challenge putting this together and i learnt alot about myself putting my experience of the past 6 years down on paper. It was also a fascinating experience going down the self publishing route as its not very straight forward to a virgin author like myself. However all the hours and late night calls to my publisher in the USA have paid off as the feedback i am getting from the manuscript is very positive indeed.
There are alot of people asking me where they can buy the book. The best place right now is from my website at www.conordevine.com OR you can also get it on Amazon, both the .com and the .co.uk.
In the next few days the book will also be available on Kindle version which again is very exciting for me. In Northern Ireland the book is available in Sheehys Book shop in Cookstown and in the next 6 weeks hopefully Waterstones and Easons will hopefully be stocking it. If you want to stock my book, please get in touch with me at conor@conordevine.com.
In the past few weeks I have received so many emails from people with MS or people who are living with and caring for someone with MS, just to say well done and the fact that my little story was giving them so much hope and enthusiasm. This is an incredible feeling and completely justifies me doing this book. I am really a private person deep down and its not easy opening up to the world and telling your personal business. Its also not easy on my nearest and dearest, but i know they understand and fully support me on this.
If you have read my book and enjoyed it, I would be very grateful if you wanted to leave a comment on Amazon.
This year i will be speaking at a number of events in N Ireland, South of Ireland,UK, Australia and also the USA. I will continue to push the boundaries, push my mind and push the stereotype of MS to I can push no more.
#AttitudeIsEverything
Thursday 14 February 2013
Sunday 3 February 2013
Gazza - Alcohol - Society
I turned on the computer this morning to check out some on line news publications and one of the first stories i seen was very disturbing indeed. It was a story about one of England's greatest players Mr Paul Gascoigne. Most people are aware at this stage that Gaza has been fighting alcoholism most of his adult life. We are all very aware of his challenges as his life from he was a young guy playing his football at Spurs has been played out in front of the worlds media.
This mornings article included a video of Gaza who was speaking at a dinner last Tuesday night, clearly in a very fragile state. He spoke or more like tried to speak for over 10 minutes and it was a very sad site indeed. He had clearly consumed alot of alcohol, his talking was blurred and he was physically shaking uncontrollably. It was an absolute disgrace that the organisers of the event allowed this to happen.
In any case, the bottom line is it reflected really what i feel the attitude society has taken to people who have a drink problem or those referred to as alcoholics. The facts are i don't think people really give much of a damn to be honest. Alcoholism is rife in society and it kills more people every year than many illnesses put together, yet there is still a school of thought out there that its maybe not even really an illness. I would ask those of this mindset to go visit some of the clinics dedicated to fighting the illness and educate yourselves better. Post this visit, I'm sure you will then accept the fact that it sure is one hell of an illness - one of the worst out there today.
Drink when in full flow is like a nuclear bomb, in that it destroys everything in its path - a devastating disease in every sense of the word.
In Paul Gascoignes case it was another very public reminder for me this morning how we have come to nearly accept it as if its just something that happens to somebody else, and theres nothing you can do about it.
Well there is lots you can do about it, and i have a number of friends who were close to death, decided they needed to take action, started to fight back and are now making a fantastic contribution to society - alcohol free.
I hope Gazza gets the support and strength from somewhere to start fighting back. My real worry though in his case is that he is runnig out of time. I hope I am wrong.
This mornings article included a video of Gaza who was speaking at a dinner last Tuesday night, clearly in a very fragile state. He spoke or more like tried to speak for over 10 minutes and it was a very sad site indeed. He had clearly consumed alot of alcohol, his talking was blurred and he was physically shaking uncontrollably. It was an absolute disgrace that the organisers of the event allowed this to happen.
In any case, the bottom line is it reflected really what i feel the attitude society has taken to people who have a drink problem or those referred to as alcoholics. The facts are i don't think people really give much of a damn to be honest. Alcoholism is rife in society and it kills more people every year than many illnesses put together, yet there is still a school of thought out there that its maybe not even really an illness. I would ask those of this mindset to go visit some of the clinics dedicated to fighting the illness and educate yourselves better. Post this visit, I'm sure you will then accept the fact that it sure is one hell of an illness - one of the worst out there today.
Drink when in full flow is like a nuclear bomb, in that it destroys everything in its path - a devastating disease in every sense of the word.
In Paul Gascoignes case it was another very public reminder for me this morning how we have come to nearly accept it as if its just something that happens to somebody else, and theres nothing you can do about it.
Well there is lots you can do about it, and i have a number of friends who were close to death, decided they needed to take action, started to fight back and are now making a fantastic contribution to society - alcohol free.
I hope Gazza gets the support and strength from somewhere to start fighting back. My real worry though in his case is that he is runnig out of time. I hope I am wrong.
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