It's complicated

You don't just fall into patient advocacy or wake up one day thinking this is what you feel like doing with your life. It is something you learn to do when the system fails you. As a child I was regularly sick with something or the other, nothing big but still noticeable and every day i would sprain my ankle. Eventually I started getting chronic infections, my heart was doing all sorts, I was struggling with my breathing, I would faint from time to time, had surgery, missed a

Whilst waiting in the day surgery unit for my turn, I couldn't help but notice another patient who wouldn't stop talking and giving...

There are a lot of different voices in the disability and chronic illness online community, and you're probably thinking, why does it...

It’s funny being a patient because in the beginning you're desperate for help and answers, you then, eventually, find some answers and...

What is disability? ‘You’re disabled under the Equality Act 2010 if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a ‘substantial’ and...

This hasn’t been scientifically proven, yet, but there seems to be a collie ration between barometric pressure and chronic pain. But what...