It’s been a weird couple of weeks, hasn’t it? Like so many others, we have been in self-isolation for the last little while, as both James and I have been suffering from what we are 99% sure is the dreaded Coronavirus. James had soaringly high temperatures, and an awful dry cough, and I had chest …
I’ve not been online much since Christmas – mostly because a few weeks ago I went under the knife to have my gallbladder removed. The pesky organ was full of stones and causing me all sorts of problems. Hopefully once my recovery is complete I will feel so much better than how I felt for …
So. It’s been a bit quiet around here lately; you may have seen on my social media that I’ve been going through the wars a bit. We weren’t even halfway through June when I started being really sick. Can barely keep fluids down, horrendous pain, passing out from sheer exhaustion rather than going to sleep …
Advertisement: we have received a fee for this post. On the first Saturday morning of half term we headed into Birmingham city centre to take Georgie to get her eyes checked – for free – at Optical Express. She hadn’t had an eye test since her Reception year test, so she was overdue for another. Any …
Things have been a bit quieter than normal for my online channels lately, because I’ve been feeling quite poorly since before Christmas. I ended up going to the GP and asking for some blood tests because I was feeling very drained and had a few other issues that were worrying me.
We had a hectic few months around Christmas time, and things with my headaches/migraines got really bad. The added stress of various things didn’t help matters and since I finished a big project with my work I’ve been taking a bit of a break from things and making my health & well being a bit …
One thing about having chronic illness, is I get bored, over the years, of trying to explain to people the extent of it all. How much my life is different to “normal” because of the pain. It gets tiring, trying to get people to understand, when I know they probably never will… so I don’t …
I’ve been umm-ing and ahh-ing for months about whether to write about this post or not. It’s not something I talk about a lot and although I’ve referred to my health issues before I’ve never addressed them fully on this blog, and talked specifically about it & the challenges it brings. I have a bit …
A few weeks ago (is it just me or is this summer holiday flying by in a hectic whirl of exhaustion?!?) I was invited to spend the day at the ThinkTank museum with the team from ao.com and Hotpoint, to have some fun and chat about their latest range of anti-allergy appliances.
For several months now we have noticed that Lydia’s left eye drifts outwards and I took her to the GP a few months ago to ask for a referral to get it checked. Although the GP was pretty dismissive about the whole thing, telling me she was too young for them to be bothered with …
