Welcome everybody; am writing this post on a quiet Sunday afternoon. For today I have chosen a short prompt as this particular day I really am not feeling well. I have chosen a prompt from an earlier date. In the prompt entitled 'Anatomy Post' it was asked that we re-labelled an anatomy picture with new names or descriptions the body parts. I have chosen to label the different parts of the body which are affected by the differing symptoms that are...
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Dear health, I am not sure quite what to say to you, as I have never written a letter like this before but I will try my best. I find you very odd; I experience so many fluctuations in my health and how I feel, and the severity in which I experience the symptoms that you cause me. These fluctuations not only change day by day, but can also change hour from hour, or even minute by minute!! And it's these fluctuations...
Continue readingWhat I have chosen to write about doesn’t really constitute as being ‘weird’ but more of a ‘nuisance.’ What is the nuisance aspect of my health condition? It would have to be the unpredictable nature of the condition - never knowing when I am next going to become unwell; when the vertigo is going to come on. One minute I can be feeling quite good (due to the constant dizziness I never feel one hundred per cent) and then BAM out...
Continue readingThis prompt for the National Health Blog Post Month is all about what we would like to know but don’t. For me, I would like to know more about the spastic paraparesis that plagues my life. I know the basics - it causes severe stiffness and weakness in the legs. But that’s about all I know about the condition, and something which wasn’t even explained to me by the neurologist whom diagnosed it - I had to learn about it from...
Continue readingHello to all my readers I would like to take this opportunity to thank Christine Miserandino (@bydls) of 'But You Don't Look Sick' and WEGO Health for inviting me to take part in the Health Activist Roundtable yesterday as well as the other participants: Michele (@lifeaftertrauma), Andrea (@thegreatbowelmovement) and Amy (@abeeliever). Unfortunately, there were some technical difficulties on my end which prevented me from fully participating so thought I would take an opportunity to discuss my thoughts on some of the issues that...
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