-
Living with a chronic illness is not ‘fun’
The title of this blog post may seem pretty obvious. You may have read it and thought ‘of course living with a chronic illness isn’t fun’, but its not the obvious I am going to talk about today. I often hear things like ‘at least you get to have a lot of sleep’ or ‘you get to spend a lot of time in bed’, as if these are things to be grateful for, or as if they are perks of my illness. And I know I am not alone in that. Comments like that arent meant to be offensive or insensitive. Often they are from people trying to support you,…
-
Living with a Chronic Illness, Every Day.
Looking through past blog posts I realised that I’ve talked quite a lot about life with mental illness, but I haven’t really focused that much on the other evil in my life: my chronic illness. I was diagnosed with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) over 3 years ago now, and it’s been a rollercoaster ride ever since. There are so many new things to get used to, treatments to try, lifestyle changes to make. It’s something that you just can’t prepare for. I do count myself as very fortunate, because I know so many other sufferers of ME who aren’t able to work at all, and many who are bed bound. But…
