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Surgeons, neurologists and confusion over what is what.
I’ve had so much to think about, trying to make sense of myself. So much to say, where to begin? Basically nothing has happened tumour...

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Sep 222 min read


A brain tumour???!
Just when you think everything is going so well!…… This has been totally bizarre in so many ways: A phone call while on holiday while...

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Sep 22 min read


So what have I learned about pain?
It was a tough 10 days before it settled. My tooth / jaw pain is much better, not 100% resolved, still I get episodes, sadly triggered by...

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Jun 301 min read


Pain - a learning experience
So following up on from my last post, I finished Zine 7 as planned. I worked really hard at it and sent it off to the printers without...

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Jun 91 min read


Fibromyalgia? A good thing?
I am hard at work at the moment trying to reach a deadline in May. I want to finish Zine 7 before I go away for a few days at the end of...

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May 52 min read


Chameleon /crazy Carrie
There was an article in the paper I read recently about autistic women being chameleons and “little psychiatrists”. Did they base the...

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Apr 192 min read


Ch-ch-changes
The gorgeous Midland Hotel, just don't look too closely David Bowie’s song is running through my head. Life is never fixed. We stand by...

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Mar 252 min read


Death comes to us all
How do you say goodbye to someone you havent seen for around 30 years? Who you loved / adored as a small child but as a young adult, that...

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Mar 192 min read



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Mar 170 min read


Margery Gill
I loved the book “A little Princess ” by Frances Hodgson Burnett when I was younger. Margery Gill illustrated the copy I read. I looked...

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Mar 72 min read


Steps Forward
I see myself moving forward all the time. But it doesn’t mean that life gets suddenly easy and smooth. If anything life can get more...

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Feb 272 min read


Birthday review
Boxing helped. I thought it would be a good idea to do a review of my birthday, at least I can reread it prior to next year. Overall, it...

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Feb 172 min read


Pillbox bunker
I have a birthday coming up and as ever, I struggle with this. So much so that in my blanking out of birthdays I failed to ring one of my...

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Feb 72 min read


Fear in the night vs "crazy fighting"
I was woken by the sound of my husband knocking over a glass which smashed, in the bathroom last night. I realised what had happened, it...

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Jan 192 min read


Post Christmas Virus?
I was glad to do a review of last year, it took me ages to read through my journal and sum it all up but it was satisfying to think of...

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Jan 131 min read


2024 Review
Lots of steps forward over the year, downgrading my fears into more childlike forms. 1) Fear of not being good enough Learning to be less...

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Jan 52 min read


Nothing stays the same
I feel that I am in a constant state of flux or change. Sometimes I wonder if I am really changing or am I just reading stuff, thinking...

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Dec 20, 20242 min read


Holidays, good or bad, discuss.
It’s been a long time since my last post as I’ve been away, the other side of the world in New Zealand. I’ve had a week of jet lag but am...

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Nov 28, 20242 min read


Out for a while
I'm going to be away for a while, back in a few weeks

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Oct 8, 20241 min read


Mother of all migraines and my favourite work so far.
I am just recovering from the most severe migraine I’ve had for a while. Hmmm, just after I produced my favourite series of drawings that...

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Sep 21, 20242 min read