I have been suffering with chronic pain for the past fourteen years. For a majority of that time, I have been drugged up on strong painkillers, ranging from opiates to analgesics that ended up messing my body up. The problem was, tethered was always a side effect to having medical pain relief. It started to […]
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There are so many different products out there to make our lives easier with our little babes. So much so, that I didn’t know where to start when looking to help comfort Felicity. Ordinarily, Felicity is not a clingy baby. She is ill at the moment so wants to be held all the time. This
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When I became ill, I was studying for my GCSEs and was loving education. However, I soon joined the thousands of teenagers who was unable to continue with school due to the severity of my M.E. I remember clearly when I first had to stop going to school that the first thing that my grammar
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Ever since I knew that I was going to be having a baby, I knew I would need to try and find something that helped the baby to sleep. With M.E. and lack of sleep, it makes for pretty horrible cocktail. I mean it’s not like sleep actually makes me feel any better but without
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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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It is National Loneliness Week and I want to talk about how loneliness has affected me within my M.E. journey. When I first became chronically unwell, my life changed dramatically. I had been a very sociable 14-year-old, who enjoyed school and being with my friends. The truth was, I didn’t have that energy to spare
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Last week was an emotional one. We were looking after my brother and sister-in-laws cats for a week, whilst they were on holiday. It gave us a chance to not completely follow a routine. I don’t think I’ve done this since I’ve been home from hospital with care. So that would be 9 years. It’s
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It’s not often that you get an invitation to the Queen’s Garden Party… So I was pretty shocked to get the letter through the post! I was invited for my charity work and raising awareness for severe M.E. It came in the thickest card I have ever seen and was really quite special. I thought
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When I became unwell in 2006, I literally thought that like any other virus or bug I had previously got, it would just get better quickly and I would be back to my old tricks soon enough. I never thought it was going to be a seriously life changing condition that would be with me
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As soon as I found out I was expecting, I did everything I could to get as much support as was humanely possible, to make sure the baby and I were going to be safe. Within minutes of finding out, I was on the ball, calling my doctor’s surgery, the midwife number, my M.E. doctor,
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