So I’ve now been blogging on and off for ten whole years. I started my writing on my Facebook page and continued it on my website, but I’ve been writing for pretty much the entirety of my chronic illness journey (nearly 16 years now!), I just spent a lot of that time writing in my […]
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I could have quite easily written a blog on this year, because so much of my life has changed in that time. As we come to the end of a decade, I thought it was a perfect time to reflect on more than just a year but how much my whole world has changed. A
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News alert! Yes, you are reading it right! I am so pleased to announce that A Girl Behind Dark Glasses is one of the finalist for The People’s Book Prize 2019!! It was incredible seeing how much everyone on social media really got behind the book and kept voting. Your support means everything. I wrote
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Felicity was taken straight from theatre to the Oliver Fisher Unit, which is a specialist baby unit. I had looked around the unit before I gave birth to her, as a practise that every new to be parents should see. I’m so glad that I did. It had scared me, seeing all the big machines
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My escapades with the change of drugs reached fever pitch three weeks ago, when I rang up the doctors with a blood pressure of 80/50….The dearest junior doctor had told me or more like made me promise that if my blood pressure went under 90/60, that I’d ring for an ambulance. That would be ridiculous,
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I’d always wanted to be an author. I used to practise creative writing with my Gran and excelled at the subject at school. Things became serious for me when I went on holiday with my Gran, Pop, Mum, Dad, Tom and Becky to France. It was just one of those wonderful holidays with so many
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After writing this blog today, I have the exciting news that A Girl Behind Dark Glasses is available on Amazon! In it’s genre, it is Number 46 on the Bestselling top 100 and number 1 in the Hot New Releases! Please keep supporting it you wonderful lot and thank you for everything you’ve done to
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Dear Bug…I’m Missing The day everything changed. The first time this happened was in 2006, where I entered total paralysis in my body. I did not get movement back until 2010. It was just one of my many body failures. The problem was at first I was too exhausted to move then I couldn’t
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Why is it that just because we suffer with an invisible disease do we have to constantly prove our mental health status? Or it goes the other way round for people who ARE mentally unwell, they have to prove they are mentally unwell enough to receive help or understanding! It’s ludicrous! Then there is the
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The delicate balance between a crash and a success. It’s a fine line and can feel like you are walking a tightrope but it’s a tightrope that persists to be with you every second of everyday. Each person has some form of a tightrope but it is very different for those who are chronically or
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