2018 Health Archive 23: Moving on …
Having moved into 2019 off the back of a fairly average year, healthwise, for me, I was thinking, do I really need a health update this…
Inspirational Woman: Melanie Reid, Journalist
It’s been a while since I mentioned Melanie Reid, a journalist for The Times newspaper who writes Spinal Column on a weekly basis, every Saturday, in The…
2017 Health Archive 22: Remembering August 2001 …
It’s been twenty years since everything changed for me in terms of my health. 1997 was the last year of my ‘normal’ life. 2017 was the…
RIP Sweet Cousin …
My younger cousin died a couple of days ago, on Sunday 3 December 2017. Whilst not unexpected, being the inevitable culmination of a long illness, all…
Chronic Illness: (T)Rough Rolling
Living a good quality life with chronic illness is as much about maintaining an equable temperament towards the peaks and troughs of persistent relapses as it…
PIP Success
The letter plopped through my postbox over the weekend and I felt like a Gold medal winner at Chelsea – my transfer from DLA to PIP…
‘Death Is Swallowed Up In Victory’ (1Corinthians 15:54)
The past few weeks have been difficult, both physically and emotionally traumatic. Following on from my recent post, It’s Spring, D’s mum, sadly, died in the…
It’s Spring …
I was really beginning to feel all Spring-like, having made it through Autumn and Winter with no serious health problems other than the usual relapse and…
Stiletto Wheels 