When we think of friendship, we usually think of the people in our lives who have seen us through thick and thin. The people who we have perhaps grown up with, gone to school or university with, travelled with, played sports with or worked with for years. We think of the people who we expect … Continue reading True Friends In Unexpected Places
I have sung all my life. School Choirs, Church Choirs, solos. Music and singing have been like food and water to me. They feed my soul. Over the past few years I have longed to sing with the energy and delight I used to sing with. My bone disease, pain and constant surgeries, have left … Continue reading How Can I Keep From Singing
Memories are strange things. They can arrive when you least expect them. They can bring amazing joy or they can startle you. They can cause you to quietly reflect. You can be caught smiling for apparently no reason to others around you. You can feel melancholy. You can cry when you least expect it. Memory … Continue reading A Drive Down Memory Lane ~ An Unexpected Emotional Road Trip
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
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
I never expected moving to be easy. It's why I spent months and months in the planning phase, in an attempt to mitigate any unforseen health events. Needing repeat spinal surgery, just as our home had sold, was not the best start. So my well thought out plans were clearly going to unravel quite quickly. … Continue reading What Was I Thinking!…..Moving House, Spinal Surgery and Multiple Broken Bones
There is always a lot I can write about in regards to my health but today I just want to say “Happy Easter”. This is such a wonderful time of the year, full of the hope of new life, as we remember what Jesus did for us on the cross, dying that we might be … Continue reading The Good News Of Easter
Disappointments come to us all. They are part of life. As hard as they are to endure they can make the special moments in life seem even more precious. They also often teach us valuable life lessons. Despite that knowledge, we still need to live through life's disappointments. We need to find ways to survive … Continue reading Dealing With Disease And Disappointment
I wrote this article in February 2018. I was just starting to write a new article this week, on a similar theme, and realised this one says it all. The title I had in mind for a new blog post was “Accept and Adjust”. Accepting our chronic disease isn’t enough. We need to take the … Continue reading Is Acceptance Just Resignation?
One thing no one wants, when you have Chronic Illness, is another diagnosis to add to the ever-growing list. There are times though when a new diagnosis brings a renewed sense of hope, relief and determination to fight on. After spending 8 days in hospital following my recent repeat spinal surgery, I returned home feeling … Continue reading So Now I’m Insufficient….In An Adrenal Kind Of Way!
My Medical Musings 