Helpless: On Managing Chronic Conditions

You know that feeling when  you comment on something, and then the original post is then deleted? That feeling of “hey, I thought my comment was insightful, and now the whole discussion has just vanished”? Well, this weekend I had that feeling. Without revealing too many details, I had reacted to a discussion about feeling […]

Growing Up Gumby

This post was originally published on Baseline Physiotherapy to raise awareness of Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. May is EDS Awareness Month. To learn more about EDS Hypermobility type (the type of EDS I have been diagnosed with) please visit the Hypermobility Syndromes Association. Growing up I knew that I was double jointed.  I used to think it […]

That Face

That’s Felix. After sending him to The Dog House in Wales for ten weeks earlier this year (following his “look at me I’m chasing a herd of cows” incident), he’s been back at home with us for just over a month. Ten weeks was a long time without that face. What I learned when Felix was […]

11 Times Up A Hill

This is the face. The face of someone who just realised they had to cycle up a short sharp hill not once but nine times. And the face of someone who then realised that the same hill needed to be tackled twice again while running. Oof. On Sunday I did the Crystal Palace Triathlon. This […]