the truth about chronic illness
It’s amazing that when you’re going through something - no one you’ve been there for affords you the time… So here I am with COVID - first time 9 months after the first major outbreak in Queensland. I’m taking that as a total win and a testament to the powers of social distancing. How do I feel? ...
I need to talk about something. Something hard to talk about. I’m in an abusive relationship with a partner. For 18 months now, this partner has been really controlling over where I go and who I see. To the point they have installed a tracker on my phone. Every time I question them about it, they tell ...
I was ridding such a high after my second dose of Pfizer. I thought, ‘that’s it, COVID-19 is officially over for me’. I don’t think I could have been more wrong. I was sitting in my car this morning, in the usual peak hour traffic, skipping almost every song from my playlist. At first I ...
Today, I went to Gold Coast University Hospital to have my first COVID-19 vaccination. I was prepared to wait, in a line, for 4-hours to be assured I received my vaccine. I was successfully vaccinated with my first shot of Pfizer - and the resulting feeling is something I wasn’t expecting. No, I’m not talking ...
Well, I’m officially one week post laser eye surgery. And I was unprepared for most of what happened last Thursday and in the days that followed. You see, I purposefully didn’t read the literature. I interrupted the experts as they tried to tell me the details of what was about to happen. And trust me, if ...
I’m not sure if I have talked about it much - but I have had really awful long distance vision since I was a teenager. Well, it didn’t start “awful”, but by the time I hit my mid-twenties, I was quite badly short sighted. I suppose I didn’t really notice how bad it had become ...
I have been searching for a way to articulate a particular thought... ummm maybe a feeling, for a few years now. This morning when watching YouTube, Morgan Adams managed to paraphrase an old quote into explaining what I mean perfectly. Your words hurt people. You saying that you didn’t mean it or that wasn’t the intention ...
There I was last Thursday, sitting at my desk, minding my business when I received a text reminding me of an appointment scheduled for the next week. While I haven’t enjoyed the isolation model we have all been living under, Telehealth has been a gift for people who work long hours where a trip to clinic ...
So, crazy times right? I have always had an affinity for virus movies - never for a minute did I think I would be living in one, but here we are. This is pandemic living and I didn't think it, or I, would be like this. To be quite frank, I am not coping with the stay ...
Wow - 6 months. That is a quality effort for not writing. I'd say I've been busy but that's pretty much the standard in my life so it's not really an excuse. Why am I writing today and not in the last 6-months? A lot has happened - great stuff, not-so-great stuff but I suppose ...
