This was written last night after the concert, when I was on a train desperately trying to get home. This is real. I have spoken to the train access service today and they have been helpful, and I am awaiting to speak to the theatre. I was going to wait to publish this post but […]
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When I moved back into my family home after four years of being hospitalised, I could think of nothing better than just returning. I was nineteen years old, I had been absent from our family home since I was fifteen. Just being able to be back there sounded like everything I wanted and more. It
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In ‘Dear Chronic Illness’, Pippa Stacey has compiled letters from sufferers to the diseases that they suffer with. Each person featured, talks to the various conditions that they suffer with, as if they were a person. A lot of chronic illnesses give invisible symptoms, and I found that’s the letters really kept the balance of
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Dear Bug… So You Are Disabled AND a Mother? When I first became unwell in 2006, I was embarrassed to use a wheelchair. It reminded me how much my body was failing me, and I felt like everybody was watching me. I only managed to get out in the wheelchair a few times, and most
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News alert! Yes, you are reading it right! I am so pleased to announce that A Girl Behind Dark Glasses is one of the finalist for The People’s Book Prize 2019!! It was incredible seeing how much everyone on social media really got behind the book and kept voting. Your support means everything. I wrote
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DISCLAIMER: Before reading this, please note this is only what worked for me. It might not work for you but I hope you find it helpful. We are now nine weeks into our bundle of joy and I have realised that although I have been talking about Felicity, I haven’t really done a proper full
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I have been suffering with chronic pain for the past fourteen years. For a majority of that time, I have been drugged up on strong painkillers, ranging from opiates to analgesics that ended up messing my body up. The problem was, tethered was always a side effect to having medical pain relief. It started to
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When I became ill, I was studying for my GCSEs and was loving education. However, I soon joined the thousands of teenagers who was unable to continue with school due to the severity of my M.E. I remember clearly when I first had to stop going to school that the first thing that my grammar
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It is National Loneliness Week and I want to talk about how loneliness has affected me within my M.E. journey. When I first became chronically unwell, my life changed dramatically. I had been a very sociable 14-year-old, who enjoyed school and being with my friends. The truth was, I didn’t have that energy to spare
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It’s not often that you get an invitation to the Queen’s Garden Party… So I was pretty shocked to get the letter through the post! I was invited for my charity work and raising awareness for severe M.E. It came in the thickest card I have ever seen and was really quite special. I thought
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