I Want You to Know, Mr. Collins . . .

Here's my latest activist cartoon faxed to Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health.  Click on image to enlarge.

Bugging Francis Collins Some More

Well, you’ve convinced me.  The positive comments on my first activist cartoons faxed to Francis Collins, director of the NIH, turned me around and decided me on sending more.

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I know I’ve had a lot of ME/CFS/XMRV activism posts lately, which may not be as interesting to some people, but it feels like we’re at a critical moment.  There’s a possibility that something may really change . . . and we have to do what we can to make sure it does.

Image reposted May 28, 2011.

I Miss Abandon

Image reposted May 28, 2011

Boo.

The Dreamer

Sweet Vindication: NIH/FDA Study Confirms Retroviral Infection (XMRV and MLV-related) in CFS

I took a quick break from my blogging break for this one . . .

Monday was a heady, exhausting day, with the long-awaited NIH/FDA study coming out mid-afternoon.  I cartooned all afternoon in my head, then managed to get this one out on Tuesday:  [click on image to enlarge]

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, blogs of my fellow invalids were notably quiet, with a few putting up a notice of the new article and apologies for being flattened beyond saying more. 

Still Waiting

NOTE:  If you don’t know what this is about, follow this link for a rundown.

End of June, word was that scientists at NIH had confirmed the Science study linking XMRV with CFS.  I was eager but cautious.

Then Health and Human Services decided to hold the paper, along with a CDC paper which had come to the opposite conclusion, because the two did not agree.  I was mad.

Soon the CDC paper was released.  And I felt a little crazy.

What could I do but wait for the NIH paper to come out too?  Weeks blew by.

Feigned indifference now relieves me of perpetual expectation.

But that could change any day.

Happy XMRV news on its way...

In case you haven't heard, word is that NIH and the FDA have confirmed the original Science article which found an association between chronic fatigue syndrome and the newly identified retrovirus called XMRV. But, alas, the news is not really out until it's out.  And so far it isn't really out.

Trying

Happy Spring-Turning-Towards-Summer

Reviewing My Day (Last Friday)

Creative Process

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New Rule

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And Still

 

 

Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet and polymath.  He won the Nobel prize for literature in 1913.  This quote is from Gitanjali.

You Can [Pretend to] Be Anything You Want.

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