Part Three – Further Consultations and Digging Deeper A number of weeks later, after having had the MRI scan, I was back at the hospital to see my Endocrinologist again. The MRI results showed that I had a number of small lesions in the white matter surrounding my brain which... View Article
Part Two – The Tests and Consultations In the coming months I had a variety of consultations and appointments. Some were helpful, some not so much, but all of them reinforced that there wasn’t going to be an easy answer or singular solution to what was happening in my body.... View Article
I woke up this morning with that old familiar sensation of fear humming throughout my body. Aware of it before I’d even opened my eyes. It’s the first time this has happened in such a long time. Yesterday scared me. The level I had dropped to by the time the... View Article
Hi lovely readers. It’s been a while since I posted here hasn’t it. I checked in to the Consciously Healthy website and blog today and it made my heart a bit sad that the last post was in February! So I thought I’d pop in to say hello. I’ve taken some... View Article
Today is seven years exactly, to the day, that I relapsed and became sick again after believing I had made a full recovery from ME/CFS. 17 years in total I’ve been on this journey with chronic illness. It feels surreal even acknowledging that. 13th Feb 2010, was the day it... View Article
To Anyone who has ever said (usually with a slightly confused sounding tone) ‘But you don’t look sick’? You are right. Sometimes, I don’t look sick. In fact, sometimes I can look quite well. It even confuses me on the days when my face looks healthy as often it is so far... View Article
The other day I was scrolling through Instagram and came across a wonderful quote. As my eyes read the words, I stopped in my tracks. You know those moments where you instantly shift perspective? This was one of those moments. You realise in one second that you’ve unknowingly slipped back into... View Article
‘How are you?’ That short little question can sometimes be such a loaded one for me. It’s a sentence that we often use in everyday conversation, but it is one that so many of us struggle to answer honestly. As a society, we are so uncomfortable with pain (other peoples and our... View Article