Welcome to the Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge brought together by WEGO Health – a social network for all health activists. Again, I am participating in the annual Writer’s Month Challenge in which I will be writing about my health activism and health condition based upon prompts given. The prompt reads as given: "These are a few of my favourite things"...
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Welcome to the twenty-sixth day of the National Health Blog Post 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 on given prompts provided by WEGO Health. Today's prompt reads: Top 3 Tuesdays: List three questions you have for other patients. As I have yet to meet another patient with the same condition as myself, I have decided to ask questions that could...
Continue readingThis post is for the 'Patients for a Moment Blog Carnival' hosted by Leslie at 'Getting Closer to Myself'. This month's theme is Social Media and illness, with which there are two parts! The first part is to describe our illness using just 140 characters; just as if we were using Twitter to do so. This could just be one statement characterising the illness experience, or a series of statements of 140 characters. The second part of the challenge asks us to...
Continue readingHello, readers new and old - hope you are all well. Or much better than I have been lately anyway - it really hasn't been a great time for me, with legs giving way much more, becoming weaker, even leaving me in bed for a whole day a couple of weekends ago. Whenever I attempted to stand, my legs would just collapse from under me...
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