Category: biopsy

Finding Ways To Survive “Living in Limbo” with Chronic Illness

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Life isn’t always straightforward. It's a bit of a cliche, I know, but it’s so true!Eight years ago, I sat in pain with two broken legs, recovering from two major surgeries eight weeks apart. I was facing a future filled with so many “unknown” elements.At that moment, “Life isn’t straight forward”, is exactly what came … Continue reading Finding Ways To Survive “Living in Limbo” with Chronic Illness

Taking Time To Reflect

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Turning off Netflix and listening to the silence filling the room, can be so relaxing. Suddenly the birds outside can be heard tweeting, rather than Twitter chirping at you with a notification on your phone.

Hard Work In Hospital

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Some challenges in life hit us so hard, as we never saw them coming. Such challenges don't allow us the luxury of preparing ahead of time. They give no warning. They simply arrive! My "acute" spinal collapse , would prove to be one of the hardest challenges I have ever faced, and I've documented a … Continue reading Hard Work In Hospital

Benign But Bothersome

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The tongue biopsy results I wrote about, in my Tongue Testing Tale blog post, are in. Mixed results. It's not cancer which is the good news but it's not going away anytime soon either. It's another one of those things with no treatment and no idea of when it will resolve. My body seems to … Continue reading Benign But Bothersome

A Tongue Testing Tale

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Sometimes, despite already dealing with an established list of chronic diseases, our bodies decide to throw us a curveball. Over the past 7 weeks I've been dealing with a tongue ulcer from hell. It's like nothing I've ever seen or had before. Any mouth or tongue ulcers I've had in the past have cleared up … Continue reading A Tongue Testing Tale

Taking A “One Day At A Time” Philosophy With Chronic Illness

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"Trigeminal Neuralgia.....what on earth is that?" That was my reaction when I was hospitalised in May 2014 with the most severe right-sided face pain that I had ever experienced in my life. I had been trying to cope with it for 3 weeks with strong pain killers. I was thinking it was just another idiosyncrasy special … Continue reading Taking A “One Day At A Time” Philosophy With Chronic Illness

Lumps, bumps, sagging eye lids and the list goes on

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Last week I saw my Dermatologist as I have a lump growing on my right lower cheek which I was hoping would go away. Best case scenario was that it was a boil or a pimple that forgot I was nearly 50 and that would be that. Not to be, it is under a freckle that … Continue reading Lumps, bumps, sagging eye lids and the list goes on