It’s ‘Five minute Friday’ time, joining with Lisa-Jo Baker. She gives us 1 word, we write for 5 minutes flat – no backtracking or editing, throwing caution to the wind. Check out others’ five-minute offerings by clicking on the button below. This is my best five minutes on ‘Risk’. GO I’m playing Russian Roulette with […]
Tag Archives | illness
100K – M.E. Awareness
11th May, 2012 2
I wanted to end this week of M.E. Awareness by asking you to do me a favour. Please do one of these three things below to help M.E. sufferers like me. They all involve a key number: 100,000. 1. GIVE £100K is the amount needed to open an M.E. Centre of Excellence in Norwich, UK. […]
Why should you care about M.E.?
8th May, 2012 36
The importance of awareness This is the first time I have marked the M.E. Awareness Week, despite having been diagnosed with it for 6 years. Before, I always thought, ‘why do people need to be aware of my illness? Isn’t that just whingeing?’ But now I see the importance. We need people to be […]
M.E. – Relapses and mountain climbing
7th March, 2012 21
M.E. is a relapsing-remitting illness, much like M.S. This means that there are times when the body suddenly ‘crashes’, with a worsening of symptoms and an increase of disability. This is a relapse. Remission for me is not like cancer remission, where there are no symptoms at all. Rather it means that the symptoms are […]
I am not heroic
16th February, 2012 26
The best book I’ve read this year is “Suite Francaise” by Irene Nemirovsky, about the French occupation during the Second World War. She was writing in 1942, living in wartime France. It was unfinished, because she was taken to Auschwitz before she had a chance to complete it. Her notebooks have only recently been discovered. […]
