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Diagnosis: A New View
It is the moment which changes your life. Sometimes it feels like it is the moment which ends it. The life you knew is gone, you are AD – After Diagnosis, your own new millennium. Diagnosis can feel like your carefully planned and treasured life burning up around you. That you can see things changing, feel them shifting, but are helpless to stop it. Diagnosis feels like a fire moving through our lives, consuming all we hold dear, burning our very selves, our image, who we are, and leaving us with little but pain and ash – where there used to be hopes, plans and a maybe not perfect, but…
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What to take to a hospital/doctors appointment: the 7 essentials you’ll be glad you packed
Is it a routine check up that’s giving you the jitters or are you struggling with a hard case of the wait-and-see’s while you wait for test results? Hospitals can be hard, especially when you are ill. I know they are there to help us but they are often places where painful things happen, or where we’ve received difficult news. No matter how many times an appointment goes well, we always remember the ones we got bad news in. I was at the doctors last week and felt anxious as soon as we were in the doors. It was the smell of the place that reminded me of every other…
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When You are Waiting for News
I know we want lovely long lives, and isn’t it funny how time can stretch? Although often only the difficult bits seem to be the ones that go on and on. The books were right, my wedding day was a bright sky rocket flash, and seemed far less than 24 hours, but waiting for blood test results – those two weeks stretch out into agonising millennia more times than I care to count. Waiting; be it for test results, surgery, to find out if a diagnosis is something serious, waiting at all can feel more agonising than the problem itself. If there is a feeling of dread, and wanting to…
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Date Night Ideas For When Energy is Low
You have a lot going on. Children. Business. Travel. Fatigue. Chronic illness. Pain. Whatever your problem du jour, it can feel like it’s taking over your whole life. Having fun, creating memories and strengthening relationships can easily fall by the wayside, and yet, nourishing these essential aspects of life enrich it beyond measure. Date night fits the bill. Be it with your spouse, your friend, loved ones or your spectacular self, making space for good ol’ fashioned quality time together – even when your energy is low, or your health is suffering – is important, necessary. Unfortunately, it rarely makes room for itself. It’s up to you to create that…
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