With the wellness industry valued at $3.7 trillion in 2015 and continuing to be on the rise, it can be easy to get sucked into the latest wellness trends and crazes. Many are jumping on the wellness bandwagon and while this may seem like a positive thing, it is not so positive when it comes […]
Who knew that as an individual with a disability, it’s our responsibility, to guide non-disabled people as to our choice of language to use about ourselves? I knew there were going to be a lot of adjustments when I became chronically ill but I really didn’t anticipate this one! The dehumanisation of the disabled has […]
Boring mobility aids should be a thing of the past! One of the first things I did when I got my walker was to pimp it but what I didn’t realise was what a difference it would make in the way people treated me. Instead of the awkward ‘what happened?’ they instead just complimented me […]
Disclosure: I only recommend products I would use myself and all opinions expressed here are our own. This post may contain affiliate links that at no additional cost to you, I may earn a small commission. Ok so I have never really talked about sex on my page but it’s something I want to open up […]
When I was first diagnosed I only had one person in my life I could talk to about being chronically ill and at the time I avoided doing that because I felt I didn’t have the right to complain about my lot because they were so much worse. It wasn’t till I became part of the […]
Above I mentioned how the change in narrative around pain medications is affecting our treatment and part of what has caused this change is the drug seeker narrative. Unfortunately, it’s true that opiods at one point were over prescribed but this was to people who had no long term need for them. They are after […]
With the rise of the internet and the ability to google your symptoms many have been turning to self diagnosis but what really is it and why is important? We’ve all heard about doctor google and how you probably shouldn’t just google symptoms as more often than not the internet will tell you that you […]
COVID-19 has ripped through our lives and turned everything upside down but there’s something else going on that until now hadn’t been brought to the public’s attention, and that’s the idea that you can get sick and never get better. You might have started to see it in the news or online, ‘post viral fatigue’ […]
Research shows us that it takes between 5-10 years to get diagnosed with a chronic illness. Some stats for specific conditions are: Ankylosing Spondylitis – Research shows that it takes 1/3 of patients up to 10 years to get a diagnosis. Psoriatic Arthritis – For 30 percent of PsA patients, it took more than five […]
We all know about the gender pay gap but how much do you know about the data gap? In science the white straight male is used as the ‘average’ human. He’s the reason why supermarket shelves are built too tall for most people or why in a car accident you are 47% more likely to […]
