the truth about chronic illness
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 ...
I know what you're thinking... How did we get to week 7 - it was like yesterday when you wrote "Calorie Addict". No it was actually at the start of September. At the time, I'd just done a lot of thinking and writing and thinking, so I had a few posts scheduled. It has in fact ...
It's easy for casual readers to think "wow, your doing "all the things", you must be better, right". A persons health is complicated. It's a intricate web of checks and balances. "Healthy" people pay little attention to it, and only get their health seen to if they feel bad. Chronically ill people are constantly managing, usually ...
