health
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Something I have learned since being diagnosed with cancer and having my operation is that I am not very good at managing my expectations and I put a lot of pressure on myself to be busy and productive all the time. I came home from hospital and fully anticipated that I would be up ad…
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I mentioned in my last post, talking about post surgical recovery that feeling the cold was a nice thing, and in fact a welcome experience after so long. I have previously spoken about how I had many symptoms that were plaguing my everyday life and were both causing me to feel self conscious but were…
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I left the appointment and all hat I could think was how soon that was. My mum kept reassuring me that it was a good thing, that I wouldn’t have time to think, and I knew she was right. I am very good at overthinking and worrying, so the less time I have to do…
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We arrived on the ward and checked in, took our seats and waited. While we were waiting we started to come up with some sort of plan, devising a little bit of an action plan, what would we do between now and surgery. Trying to figure out how much time we had, in our heads…
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The ward was so very busy that day, the waiting room was full and people were rushing back and forth hurriedly trying to get things done in a timely manner. I’m not sure if it was the stress getting to me, but I felt like I was seeing all the goings on through a weird…
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It wasn’t long, and the appointment to meet with the endocrinologist was just days away. I was feeling slightly apprehensive, it just felt so uncertain, so unknown. It was scary to be honest. Id also begun to recognise since my appointment quite how often my heart would race. This wasn’t even when I exserted myself, sometimes I would just…
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Allow me to introduce myself. I am a 26 year old woman from the UK. I live with my partner, retired guide dog and three cats. I am registered blind (hence the retired guide dog) and play Ten Pin Bowling as part of my local blind social support group and as part of the wider…
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