I want to share my story. I want to journal my journey, to not only give me a place to document what is happening to me and it’s affects, but I want others, similar to me, to read this and know they’re not alone. Like you…
The stress in our house is beyond high. My husband and I are full of it. Stress is your body's way of responding to any kind of demand or threat. When you sense danger—whether it's real or imagined—the body's defenses kick into high gear in a rapid, automatic...
A splatter of small screens filled with human faces dance on the screen in front of me. There are 18 screens/faces, including mine. My Level 3 Certificate in Counselling Skills course is back. I catch a glimpse of my familiar features on one of these small screens, in...
I woke up crying. Wet cheeks to go along with my face which was soaked in clammy sweat. I have a hot sweaty head. I woke up at 00:35 am feeling hot and sick. I had to go to the toilet on and off throughout the night. My temperature wobbled, losing and gaining a degree...
Vulnerable. Hormones? Something is not right. No feeling in my tongue, roof of my mouth, fingers and toes. I'm OK with that. But mentally I am weak and crawling on my belly trying to find peace with what I am going through. How can you zone out of the white noise in...
I cannot get on top of life. I feel I am drowning in work and can't find the arm bands let alone the life jacket. I have so much to do and now the college term has started I'm feeling it stacking up and it feels frightening. Even the sound of a door banging sets me...
Side effect free day. Messages of support and love from close friends knit be together even more. I'm feeling well. Well. Closer to well than of recent days. I can't write 'tip-top' because I am not. But I feel a damn sight better than yesterday so many thanks are...
I have a rattle in my chest and feel its bellow when I breathe in and out. I noticed it after I'd walked from my bedroom to my kitchen to put washing away. My ribs feel like someone is playing a xylophone on them, and that someone is blindfolded. There's a banging...
I have never felt this good after chemo. Maybe close but honestly this is great. I do feel slightly odd but can't really expand on that. But odd is better than sickly or worse. I do feel a little tired but I think that is coming more form my mind than my body. I don't...