Well, my dear PMR/GCA partners in crime, it’s THAT time again!
No, not to open the red stuff (or whatever's your equivalent pleasure). It’s something more serious than that. I mean an opportunity to psychologically self-harm yet again by daring to read yet another of my silly ramblings. Oh well, it just confirms what PMR and those steroids can do to a normally healthy brain and Mind..
By popular request, I’ve once again consulted with one of my comedy heroes, the late ‘Professor’ Stanley Unwin who, for many decades, was one of the UK’s most prolific Word Manglers and a purveyor of Gobbledegook which, however contorted gramatically, still managed to make some kind of sense overall. How did I connect with the late ‘Prof’? Well, that’s OUR secret...
This time, I tackled Stan on the thorny and perennial topic of Steroid Tapering - one of the Mysteries of the modern medical age about which I was sure he’d have an informed opinion…
Me: Greetings again Stan!
Stan: Greetlodes Marje Bench, nicely to see you!
Me: Er, Stan, I now have quite a ‘following’ here on the PMRGCA / HU forum - nearly 3 people in fact! They all want to know the secret of steroid tapering with PMR and / or GCA. Can you help us?
Stan: Deeply humblefold Marco Polo - and a bit of Napoleon Solo - such goshful! This topiclode rattly roundy in my brail endy-endyful until I felt like I had the ‘Bendlodes’ - a bit like the French explorer, Jake Costalot after those deeply dank, darkful and hairy-scary missionlodes into the sub-marinated world of mermaidladies, antiquariful lobstodes and all things watery-eyeful. Deeply jangleful at times…but a bit if an eyeful too!
This is my best advice: PMR (PolyMyGodlyRuefulAtrocious) really is a deeply jangly, mangly and, frankly, frazzly afflictode of the bodly’s normally sweetly, delicode and happily-go-lightly immuny systful.
No wonder we descend like a proverbial stole from gladful feelings of nicey-nicey-happy-go-lucky into sadly, madly and, in some cases, even Humpy Dumpy Fell off the Wall?! Some sufferlies even report epilodes of Dire Eel (or even Insanitary) as a result of the imbalance of normally smiley bodiful hormodes with RPM. This is not to be laughy-laughy at mirthful unless you stand at a safely distode wearing protective clobber - AND adopt a straightly, respectful expresslode (to protect the innocently).
As for the Scary Rods (in some quarterfuls, otherwise knowy simplefold as ‘Stair Rods’): well, admitedlode they are the equivalent of sending in President Doris J. Frump to sort-out a tutti-frutti fuelled punch-up at a childers’ tea party. But they do seem to settley downy most of the worselode symptodes of RPM. Deeply Joyfulness for many sufferfuls despite some of the sidely effectodes?
The main thing with the Stare Rods is this: slidey-down the dosey-do’s gentlefold and regulatory. Don’t racey-racey down hill-and-dale like poor Michael Shoe Maker - you know what happened to him (deeply sadfully). Just do a pacey-pacey ‘slidey’ dosey adjustfulness both Mindly and Bodyfold, as with the DSNS (Dearly Slowly Nearlyful-Stoppy-at-Times) methodful - it makes sensible. As the cigar-smokey and magnanimously Sir Winslode Churchful once said, ‘Better losey the battlefield and win the war chest’? No wonder he coughed muchly - and deepfold!
Me: Thank you so much Stan, I’m sure this will be well-received by my (3) followers here!
Stan: No probfuls MB (Uncle Napoleon Solo?), all partly of the servicelode and gladly to helpfold. In return, can you do ME a favour? Just GET ME OUT OF HERE as these B****y Angels are driving me madly with their incessant repeats of ‘Amazingly Gracefold’ all day long. It’s worse than watching SKY TV!
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As in the past, my fascinating over-the-ether conversation with The Prof ended suddenly, and mysteriously. But I’m confident that he will be back in one form or another. We’ll see… 
Finally, and as they always say in the UK BBC News - ‘If you have been affected by any events in this story, either get in touch or just have a nice cup of tea and settle down. This, too, will pass’.
Happy Weekend All - keep smiling on the PMR / GCA Journey (or any other of Life’s journeys, for that matter?).
MB 
