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Illness makes us all equal
When I attended the Endometriosis UK info day. I was struck by how universally chronic illness had impacted the lives of so many people. Both women and men, families and friends from all racial and...
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Spare a thought for the chronically ill this Christmas
I really enjoy Christmas, but I learnt a very important lesson this week when preparing for this years celebration. Christmas (and any other major holiday) is a really tricky time for anyone who...
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A chronic illness is very hard work
Sometimes I want to scream from the rooftops: My chronic illness is extremely hard work. I’m doing the best I can and most of the healthy people around me have no clue what I am going through. It...
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People treat you differently when you’re ill
When you become ill with a chronic illness like endometriosis, no one mentions how people will perceive you differently. Many people don’t mean to of course, but to some people you’ll always be that...
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Guilt is an understandable side effect of chronic illness
I have no issue with telling you that even now there isn’t a week that goes by where I don’t experience some sort of guilt because of living with endometriosis. It’s a silent side effect of living with...
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Do you consider yourself disabled?
This was a question I was asked on a web form recently. It was a required field, and the only answers were “yes” or “no” so I couldn’t skip it. It brought up a wider question in my mind about how I and...
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Illness can be extremely isolating
Over the past couple of years I’ve become a glass half full sort of person when it comes to illness. Being more optimistic about living with chronic pain hasn’t been easy, it’s been fraught with...
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Doctors don’t always know best
At my last doctors appointment I stopped my doctor just short of them stating that my illness wasn’t that serious. It’s not something I particularly wanted to hear them say out loud. We don’t always...
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Feeling down: how chronic illness can effect your self esteem
I must admit that despite all my positivity and tenacity there are moments when illness gets the better of me and I feel miserable. For all my coping mechanisms and hopeful strategies, frankly there...
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How others can talk about how we live with illness
It’s amazing watching the change in someone when I explain that I am chronically ill. There’s a subtle change that happens. Small enough for someone else to miss, but I’ve seen it often enough now that...
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The pain of living with undiagnosed illness
For the last four years I have lived with a third, undiagnosed long term illness. I have been getting sicker, and this had posed a new set of challenges and complications which could have possibly...
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