What Chronic Illness Looks Like Behind Closed Doors
Today, I read a great item in Huffington Post, written, and illustration, by Amani Omejer: What Chronic Illness Looks Like Behind Closed Doors. Do click the link across…
2016 Archive 21: Love Runs Deep
I’m happy to record that there have been no fresh acute health traumas arising in 2016, thank goodness, although, following on from my 2015 experiences, I…
‘You must be used to it by now.’
‘You must be used to it by now.’ Having lived with the massive lifestyle disruption caused by chronic neurological paralysis for almost twenty years, people often…
A Bad Week
With my, de minimus, treatment period of six months almost up and my functional problems escalating, I called my consultant to ask for help and was…
Melt Chocolates, London
I’m reposting, which I rarely do, from my lifestyle blog, Plus Black, because Melt Chocolates are not just for gifts: they’re an essential accessory for the…
Relapsing …
I’ve been a little quiet on this blog of late and that’s, in part, because I’m relapsing. I hate moaning about the bad stuff but relapsing…
Until the end …
Clive James, who remains terminally ill yet still alive despite his publicly expressed concerns about his imminent demise, has written a poem: Return of the Kogarah…
On catheters …
At a routine check-up last week, my consultant said, ‘Bladder?’ ‘Fine,’ I replied, trying not to catch D’s eye as I remembered my most recent –…
