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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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My condition sends me in a spin!

  Welcome again to the third post for the National Health Blog Post Month 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: My Mascot! Give your condition, community or self a mascot.  Who is it?  What do they represent?  What is their battle cry? To represent my condition in the form of a mascot, I have...

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Being your own GP! (When medicines aren’t being effective or condition is untreatable…)

My condition has not improved; at times it feels as if it is steadily getting worse and so as my condition has been significantly bad recently, it has meant that I have spent a lot of time in bed and watching television.  I have particularly been enjoying spending time watching medical dramas - Saving Hope, Grey's Anatomy, Emily Owens and M.D and notably Monday Mornings. Although, I love these types of show, as a spoonie however, I do find them to...

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‘Miss April’…

In the madness of the Writer's Challenge that I have been taken part in that I have forgotten to mention that a very special friend of mine who has her own blog is completing a special project for her blog abledis.com.   Marissa, like myself suffers with chronic dizziness, and was diagnosed with a debilitating vestibular disorder and set up her website "with the intention of documenting my life living with a hidden disability".  For those who aren't familiar with...

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