I’m not a very sporty person (evident from my physique)…I kid you not. However, in any competition I find myself up against, I will admit to being a bit of a sore loser. I might not be an extremist in this regard but I do feel the pangs of...
Articles with the Tag Invisible illness
Imagine having a way to communicate your invisible illness to those around you visually…
This morning I woke up at 4 am with the start of an excruciating episode of stomach pain (only too familiar to me). I lay waiting to see if it would escalate while praying that it wouldn’t. However, that was a futile prayer because sure enough, it was one...
Hydrocephalus : Do you regard it as a disability?
A little while ago, I was asked by Anna Adams of the Rolling With Spina Bifida FB page, to write a story about my life with a disability for their website. Reading her request, made me sit back and think about it for a long while, having been caught off-guard. I have no...
Invisible illness vs looking for attention
This post is closely related to one of my previous Hydrocephalus posts, We are not faking… My teenage son made a comment yesterday and said to me. “Why do you post stuff like that on Facebook? It looks like you’re…looking for attention“. (To put it into perspective for you, there’s...