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Please, don’t judge me…

  Welcome to the sixth day of the National Health Blog Month Challenge hosted by WEGO Health.   Every day during the month of November I will be writing a new blog post related to health and living with a chronic illness based upon given prompts provided by WEGO Health. Today's prompt reads: Say WHAT?! What's the most ridiculous thing you've heard about your health condition?  Was there any context? What did you think at the time you heard it - and what do you think...

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Don’t judge others for you do not know their story…

On Wednesday at the 'Life 4 Living' group that I attend, we had a very interesting seminar on Diversity.  In the seminar we were split into two groups and given a laminated sheet with a picture of an island, and a deck of cards with pictures of a diverse group of people, with only their occupation listed on the cards.  We were then told that a ship carrying the people on the cards was in an accident, which resulted in...

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Wrong

There are many definitions of wrong.  These include: a) not in accordance with what is morally right or good b) deviating from truth or fact; erroneous c) not correct in judgement, opinion, method, etc d) not proper or usual;  not in accordance with requirements or recommended practice e) out of order; awry; amiss Many people make false judgements based on appearance, colour of skin, race, gender and so on.  Below is a picture of me on a night out: Looking at the picture you might assume that...

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