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The Longest Ride…of life with Chronic Illness

Living with chronic dizziness is hell.  The unpleasant sensation of having your whole world constantly moving even when still takes everything away from you. Your friends, social life, independence, career plans to name but a few are lost when chronic illness strikes. Long-term illness pecks away at your identity; taking pieces of things that make you-you: the friends you meet, the places you like to socialise and your hobbies and interests. For me, living with this neurological condition has taken a lot, and one example...

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A Personal Experience of Cruising with a Neurological Condition

As mentioned in my previous post, I concluded that in my opinion cruises are a perfect option for those with disabilities due to the excellent accessibility of cruise ships by large companies such as Royal Caribbean and the excellent care that the staff provides for those passengers with a disability.  It is also preferable to using air travel because of the lack of waiting around for hours in a large airport.  However, as the first post was a general overview...

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NHBPM Day Twenty-Two: Changes…

It's Day 22 of 'National Health Blog Post Month'.  One of today's prompt asks us to write about we are thankful for - as I have already done this in a recent post (Day 5: Giving Thanks!) I have decided to use the second prompt.  The second prompt asks us to write about change. Well, my life at the moment are going through some changes.  The biggest change is that I am going out more, and to new places, thanks to...

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How do you solve a problem like…a high ceiling?

Sorry for the lack of an update this week - truth be told, I haven't had the greatest weeks with most of it spent lying on the sofa with the comfort of a quilt and watching endless hours of television (or at least trying to!!) feeling particularly dizzy, weak, nauseous and with frequent episodes of the 'room spinning' motion. It started Wednesday evening and I believe that the deterioration in my condition was due to the afternoon I spent at 'Life...

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