an insight into my life with severe asthma, advocacy, awareness & research
As I write this on the plane home from Madeira I am feeling a huge mix of emotions (I wrote this yesterday on the plane). The pride of representing Great Britain at the first ever European Para Laser Run Championships, frustration at my race being interrupted before it even started with smoke hitting my lungs,… Continue reading Competing for Great Britain at the European Para Laser Run Championships
It is no secret that the past 22 months have been really hard but I never realised how hard it would be once I had had surgery. Healing is going really well. I cannot believe the job the plastic surgeons have done. They did need to take my umbilical and I do have a nice… Continue reading Accepting when you need some extra help.
This is not a decision I came to easily and many many tears were shed as I mulled over what the best decision was. ICUsteps is a fantastic charity and one I found so rewarding to be involved in from being an attendee at a peer support group, helping set up a national set up… Continue reading Resigning as Trustee of ICUsteps
The covid fairy finally paid me a visit a few weeks ago. Postive Lateral Flow Test and a High temp (not the highest it hit) Having avoided it for the last 2 and a half years I knew my time would come but I had no idea when. Not long into the first national lockdown… Continue reading My COVID-19 Experience
On my social media I have recently been posting about the fear and anxiety I have been trying to deal with. I have discovered that I am not the only one who is having the same experience. This is reassuring as it says to me that my fear is justified but it is awful that… Continue reading Living with fear and anxiety
not a good combination. A few weeks ago in the press there was a lot of interest in the story surrounding the UK inhaler group Vectura and Philip Morris International. Philip Morris International is one of the largest if not the largest tobacco company in the world. Vectura is a pharmaceutical company in the UK… Continue reading Inhaler industry + tobacco industry= ……
If you asked me 4 months ago if I would be under neurology I would have laughed. Through my illness and all my sports I have never needed any neurology input or intensive physio input like I am getting just now. This physio is so tough and really hard work. Physio previously has been hard… Continue reading Neurophysiotherapy
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Getting a cold to many is an inconvenience. To a severe asthmatic getting a cold fills you with dread because generally our lungs are fantastic hosts to cold bugs leaving us with rip roaring chest infections. During the winter months you cant avoid the common cold, well you could but that would mean you become… Continue reading Cold to chest infection to….
Many on long term oral prednisolone will be familiar with the saying that it is the gift that keeps on giving. It is the one medication that gives those who are taking it life but also results in many secondary conditions resulting due to the side effects and the prolonged side effects. I have written… Continue reading The gift that keeps on giving!!
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