A few months in and after all tests had been exhuasted and I had been sent home to recover, I started to research alternative therapies. I found I wasn’t very good at sitting around waiting to get better, I had to be doing something, trying something, to increase my chances of getting better. I read…

My English teacher wrote in my leavers book a quote from Of Mice and Men ‘the greatest plans of mice and men oft go awry’, then the advice ‘make sure yours don’t’.  I always remembered that advice and tried to make sure I didn’t let myself get steered off my chosen track (well actually I…

I have spent the last few years dealing with chronic illness and my life has changed almost beyond recognition. I have started this blog to help make some sense of what has happened and where I am now, to try and move beyond survival mode and try to figure out a way to thrive, within…