Author Archives: Anna Redshaw

Someone else’s opinion does not come close to your lived experience. If someone who isn’t you, deems your symptoms or your circumstances to be “not that bad” it holds no relevance whatsoever. You are allowed to feel however you damn please about your chronic illness on any given day. No-one gets to decide what isContinue reading “Another reminder”

People have talked at length about how much the pandemic has taken from them. I haven’t been able to relate at all. Until now. Most of the freedoms people have lost to the pandemic I lost long ago. When the lockdowns and shielding started, I was already housebound, unemployed due to ill-health, isolated from regularContinue reading “A Covid Christmas”

*by nothing I mean getting through a single day whilst drowning in debilitating and restrictive symptoms… Being off work doesn’t mean I’m free. I have an incredibly hectic schedule, full to the brim of feeling too awful to do anything. The implication that I have an incredible amount of spare time irritates me. In truth,Continue reading “Busy doing nothing*”