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2009 Archive 14: Sweating The Small Stuff

Welcome to my annual health update – please, suck it up. I need some record of how my illness is progressing – better here than in…

As I sit and type this, my face is rather alarmingly paralysed. Why is paralysis – mine anyway – never even? I have a weird, very…

After a frantic but fun entry to 2007, I got diagnosed with skin cancer – fantastic! But, no biggie. Minor op and all was declared clear.…

Yay, 2006. A good year. Ok, it started badly with a horrible vomiting virus, an early neurological relapse, I went deaf in one ear, got diagnosd…

The new year blues were getting me down, the words in my mind swirling around – brown, frown, ground, flat, crushed, bruised and battered … My…

Continuing from a dire 2003, I had a diabolical first half to 2004 – colds, laryngitis, pesky infections, yet another relapse in May so, back to…

2003 was the new ‘norm’ for a year in the life of my illness. In January, I woke up one morning to find that my face…

2002 was to be the year where I began to live my reconstructed life. The spectre of immediate death receded to be replaced by the reality…