Author Archives: Anna Redshaw

I am mostly surrounded by people who do not have health issues. To some of them, I’m a strange creature who rarely moans or is rarely miserable despite, it seems to them, living a life they’d be so unhappy with. Should I not be happy with my lot? Should I not be happy that afterContinue reading ““I don’t know how you stay so happy!””

Your unwashed, unfiltered, dishevelled & pyjama-clad pal would just like to say thank you to everyone who nominated or endorsed me for a WEGO Health Award this year. You really went for it yesterday and every time I went to say thank you for a nomination, another one came through! I’m very grateful for allContinue reading “WEGO Health Award nominations”

I think we’re exceptional when it comes to adapting and moulding some kind of life around the restrictions our illhealth places upon us. I really do. Take reading. So many of us are now unable to read, or unable to read without it exacerbating certain symptoms. So we limit ourselves to a paragraph at aContinue reading “Bookworm on hiatus”

Life has been going at about 20mph since the Tea Party For M.E. on 16th May. And let me tell you, that is FAR too fast! Since then I’ve been trying to wrap my head around the fact that we raised three times as much as last year’s Tea Party For M.E. Aside from theContinue reading “Taking stock”

I’ve been thinking a lot about this. The goal posts were moved by August’s relapse. And then they moved again in January as the severity slowly started to lessen. So where am I at now? What’s my new normal, or my baseline of activity for those who use similar terms. Well at my worst IContinue reading “New normal”

It’s been a long week. I found out that the financial contribution to my ‘care’ is increasing due to “policy changes”. From £0 per week, to £22.46 per week. That might not sound like very much, but as someone on Disability Benefits (who cannot legally have savings over £6000 – as if I could saveContinue reading “An update on Adult Social Care”

Feeling like an absolute champion! I haven’t been able to wash my face or brush my teeth today. I’m not dressed. Showered? Absolutely not. This happens a lot, and never through choice or can’t-be-bothered-ness. But because it requires movement and function I do not always have. My already-poorly body is feeling the effects of Friday’sContinue reading “Today’s win”