the truth about chronic illness
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 ...
My name is Amanda - and I’m addicted to food. Oh, and I have a chronic digestive disease that tries to kill me every so often. I really wanted to start off this post by blaming everything but myself for the situation I’m in. I really did. I even thought about what I would say. But ...
I had a very interesting experience the other day. I was called a social climber. I was called this by someone formally in my life, who I drifted away from, in amongst a tirade of abuse which focused on how selfish I was for not helping them with their problems. Wow. I’m going to admit I wasn’t ...
I don’t want to get caught up in the story of my last job. Part of being able to let go of the past is getting it out of my system and leaving it there - which I was able to finally do in, Truth be Told. Did I hate people from there? Yes. Without a ...
So there I was. This angry, angry girl who decided that if she didn’t fit in, she may as well be completely outside the box. My hair was black, my close were black, my music was loud and heavy. The most disturbing part about all of this was at 16, I understood what I was ...
While watching a Shane Dawson mini-documentary series I realised that I’ve never talked about my past. It’s like my story starts in 2010 when I was diagnosed. Obviously I didn’t pop out of the womb at the age of 28, choc full of angst. I was born in 1982, in an unremarkable hospital in Adelaide, South Australia. ...
So I'm in a situation... and it's one of those good/bad situations. Since going back on the Mercaptopurine in April I've had a very long list of side effects. The worst being fatigue. Crohn's comes with a healthy dose of fatigue to start with - which makes sense, it's Auto-Immune so your body is fighting a ...
Last week a celebrity personality posted on her very public, very large social media platform that she will be having a home birth with a midwife, raising her child as a vegan… and will not be vaccinating. That personality is the heavily pregnant Kat Von D. I was totally with her (not necessarily agreeing, but with ...
Let’s go back in time almost 10 years. Back to when I was first diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease. I was angry. And I was entitled to be angry - anger is one of the stages of loss. I had just lost my “old life” so I was working through the grief process. One thing that used ...
