I went to the doctor..
I went to the doctor the other day, it was a new doctor. One I hadn’t seen before, but she’d been all over Twitter giving health advice so I thought I’d give her a go. You know, I…
Category Archives: Disability
Social Services vs. actual support
I’ve been a little quiet lately, thought I should explain what has been going on. Especially as I am very angry and need to get this off my chest. We have been referred to Social Services, this …
Trigger Warnings
Let me start by saying, so many trigger warnings for this post. I realised I have written, briefly, about this before, but it is a very emotional post written while in distress. It’s not actuall…
“We must support the disabled, but we must support ordinary people as well”
Unsurprisingly this quote from Liz Kendall has been upsetting lots of people, mostly over the use of the word “ordinary”. Understandably people are pissed off at “ordinary” bei…
Mental health and male privilege
This tweet popped up on my timeline, I was busy at the time, so I didn’t see the context or know about any twitter storm. It irritated me though, and I expected better from this particular perso…
Makeup, fashion and pain
I thought I’d write this as a post to refer back to when I do reviews, just so I’m not constantly repeating myself. Also I’m hoping it might serve as useful for manufacturers if they…
Why #spooniegate matters
Some of my followers will be aware of this, many of you wont. In May the Cape Breton Post published an article called “Feeling tired? Conserve your precious spoons“. The basic gist of this…
Frida Kahlo
I’m currently suffering from the twin nightmares of severe period pain and EDS pain, my body feels utterly cripple by pain. Just typing this hurts, but I feel like I need to turn this pain in to…
Guest Post: Guilty until proven healthy
This is a guest post written by my husband. – MoG The following is written not by a reactionary, or a devoted fan of a former lib dem MP. I think social services is a generally hard working and …
Plus Size Promise
After seeing this fantastic video by A Curvy Cupcake, Debz decided to set a few of us a challenge to make ourselves our own Plus Size Promises. First, watch the video though! She’s an absolute…
