Category: Personal
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On Sunday 17th January 2021, at 1.15am, I woke up to feel my waters had broken. I was 35 weeks pregnant, was supposed to have another week left in work and was completely unprepared to go into labour.
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“You can’t take codeine when you’re pregnant.”
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I, on the other hand, get given a diagnosis for something incurable and say ‘okay, that’s annoying’ and carry on with my day. My plate is absolutely massive.
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Both my physical health and mental health took a turn for the worse over the last few months – I’m having more issues than I know where to begin with and I haven’t been able to write for a while,…
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I have never been ashamed to admit that I’ve needed counselling before. To be honest, I’d think it was pretty strange if someone was diagnosed with incurable chronic pain and didn’t feel depressed, or scared, or something along those lines.
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When I started writing my blog, I hoped I would help to reach just one other person with Trigeminal Neuralgia and offer them a bit of comfort, but I’m actually saddened to see that my most popular post, which pulls…
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This was the first holiday abroad I’d been on with Trigeminal Neuralgia (if we don’t count that I experienced the first attack of TN in Rome two years ago), so I was very nervous about travelling with medication and with…
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