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Wake up call
Yesterday I had a bit of a scare. For the past six months I’ve been on some pretty heavy duty painkillers. The pain I’m now getting in my upper spine isn’t responding to anything much, not even the morphine-like buprenorphine patches, but I have to say that the rest of my back’s responded well to [...]
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Labels
A couple of weeks ago I was talking about disability, and what it actually means. I came to the conclusion that labels are often just a shorthand for something, something that saves a long, detailed explanation. When it comes to disability, and how I describe myself, it’s a lot easier to say “I’m disabled” rather [...]
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If you can’t fix it, you gotta stand it
Question: What have the NHS and my body got in common?
Answer: They’re both fucked.
Last night I had an appointment with my neurosurgeon. Yes, last night - 7.15pm. Why? Because apart from doing his day job, which at the moment is covering at another hospital for another surgeon, as well as his own, twice a week [...]
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Posting in my sleep
For as long as I can remember I’ve been on a cocktail of different drugs. A bit like Alice in Wonderland, one makes me big, another makes me small. Amongst them, one sends me off to sleep, another stops the painful muscle spasms that contort my muscles, yet another stops pain signals travelling along my [...]
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Feeling kinda…
…like sh*t at the moment. My brain’s having one of those “off” days when all the pings are bad and if someone ran a tracecert on my thought processes at the moment they’d be looking at response times in the order of minutes rather than milliseconds.
When my pressure’s high I have these weird kind of [...]
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Some good news at last
Well I had an appointment at the hospital with orthoptics yesterday to get my prisms adjusted, and have a field test, as it’s over a year since my last one, and my neuro’s not too hot on referring me for them. My prisms have changed slightly, and I still have major problems with double vision, [...]
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