A lost summer

It all started on the 19th June, while at a Hollywood Vampires concert in Glasgow.  During the second last song, Johnny Depp singing no less, I had a piercing headache.  It would go soon, everyone gets headaches and it wasn’t going to spoil my night. However, spoil my night it did, and way beyond.  My …

Floatation Heaven

The first time I approached the floatation tank I couldn’t get the images of William Hurt out of my head.  The movie Altered States from 1980 was one of my favourites at the time and the crazy idea that you could be changed, reverted back to a cave man, fascinated me.  I’ve never been the …

Missing

The tough thing is being reminded of all that you have lost.  Today a couple of things happened.  First, because I had been so frumpily down and bedraggled lately, I decided to put a little bit of make up on and wear my high heel boots.  This, I knew, would cheer me up. So, after …

Nine months of hell

As with any hidden illness people with Fibromyalgia will be bombarded with “but you look ok”, or “you’ll get better”.  I am not sure if it’s because it’s not a terminal illness that people don’t take it seriously.  As my doctor explained to me, “you will die with it, not of it”.    That’s true, as …

Costochondritis

Here’s one the doctors won’t normally pick up on.  Twice I have been sent along to A&E with symptoms of a heart attack, twice they have found nothing.  Twice they have done all of the tests and twice they have found nothing.  No, I have not been diagnosed with Costochonritis, perhaps if I did alert …