Adapting My Home: Stay Or Move?
In 1998, as a consequence of the rapid onset of a chronic neurological illness, I became a full-time, non-standing, wheelchair user. At the time, I –…
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…
Peace Of Mind
I do think one of the most effective ways of raising money for, and awareness of, chronic illness is through collaboration with art and artists. Art,…
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…
As if we weren’t SAD enough …
Initially, I was pretty mad when I read about the ‘dementia tax’ unveiled as part of the Tory manifesto. Now, just a few days later, it’s…
‘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…
