How I learnt to stop worrying and relearnt to cycle
There’s a brief moment in time, not long after you’re diagnosed with a chronic illness that you think your life is over. All you had to judge your worth and your success in life was your experiences...
View ArticleCycling with endometriosis – yes you can get on your bike with chronic pain
This is my bike (battery not pictured). It’s a Kalkhoff Agattu C8 Impulse. When I’ve spent the last five years of my life explaining that I am in daily pain, I can tell people are thinking: If your...
View ArticleHow knitting helps me with my chronic pain and fatigue
Around the time I started cycling to help my endometriosis. I realised that in order for cycling to work I also needed a low energy activity to use for the days or moments where I couldn’t cycle,...
View ArticleHow to learn a new language while you have a long term illness
I am now several several years into living with long term illness. I’ve come to accept it’s presence in my life, but this has come at the cost of losing a little bit of my independence and freedom. I...
View ArticleIf we’re not happy, we have to change things
As some of you may know I met Ed Miliband last week. He came into my workplace (which was entirely unexpected) and I got the opportunity to ask him some questions about what the Labour party’s plans...
View ArticleHow to manage having too much to do (with chronic pain)
On any given day I always have too much to do. There are more things to accomplish than I have hours of the day. This was a problem for me before I got sick, but well people aren’t always forgiving...
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