Hello lovely followers of my blog, firstly sorry I haven’t posted in a couple of weeks, if I am honest I have been struggling a little bit both physically and emotionally. This latest flare up has hit me hard because I had had a little bit of time where I had been happily plodding along at home and getting some work done on my PhD and I had even started to do a little exercise. However, I have flared up right back to - just getting out of bed and showering is a massive challe

I think I usually do ok, I am dealing with this illness in my own way, but most of the time I am dealing with it. At the moment I don’t feel like I am dealing with it, my body is rapidly getting worse, my brain isn’t functioning very well and I have the looming thought of breast cancer hanging over my head - at the moment I just feel broken. That pretty much sums up how I feel right now. I have had a review / manipulation of both my ankles under aesthetic this week, which was