Two and a half years. Thirty months. One hundred and thirty weeks. Nine hundred and thirteen days. More than one million minutes. Nearly seventy nine million seconds. Forty plus catheters, fifty five UTIs, two hospital admissions and three surgeries with another on the horizon. That’s been my life. Yup, my life. Is it normal to
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When “Stop” Doesn’t Mean Stop: A Hospital Experience I Should Never Have Had
If there is one thing that living with Fowler’s Syndrome has taught me, it’s that you become fluent in your own body in a way you never wanted to be. You learn its language, its warning signs, it’s quiet panic. The difference between this language and learning French or German, it’s variable everyday. It changes
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An Ode to lockdown
The first thing to do will be to say Happy New Year, congratulations for making it through 2021 and into a brand new year. I am writing this on New Years Day in isolation; I’ve hidden and escaped from COVID-19 long enough to expect it to make an arrival at some point. I tested positive
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Gone Girl: Is it feminist?
In 2015, David Fincher bought Gillian Flynn’s novel, Gone Girl to the big screen; it went from being best selling thriller into one of the biggest, most gripping and thrilling psychological films of the 21st century; in my opinion of course. It kick started an obsession with this genre just look at Girl on the
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The I’ll Let you Know Culture
Ev on a Step In the last few weeks I’ve developed a proper despising hatred for the sentence ‘I’ll let you know‘ it grates my gears. Imagine, your precious car wheels scraping the pavement because that sentence annoys me as much as when I scratch my wheels. I know, how dramatic but it doesn’t matter
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A Candid Shift
Last year, I noticed a shift in my beauty and skincare regime which I thought was a shift based on laziness. A shift that saw me cutting down on beauty products that I was buying. I was no longer feeling a compulsion to purchase a new lipstick each time I stepped foot into Boots/Superdrug. Who
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The Beauty Bloggers’ Impact on the Industry.
If you go back to 2012-14 YouTube and beauty blogging the theme and overall consensus is very much a case of ‘how much make up do I have?’ If you owned more than a drawer full, then you were as cool hip and trendy as the bloggers you read, watched and listened too. Power of
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The Autumn Beauty Picks: The Edit
Autumn has arrived, if you didn’t know already. Autumn, like Spring, brings with it a whole lot of fun because it brings with it the changes. Changes such as; clocks moving, darkness and lightness but most importantly fashion and beauty. I wanted to update, the favourite post amongst readers and that is my Autumnal beauty
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The Beauty Edit: My Picks
It seems that everywhere I look there are offers- 3 for 2,s buy 3 and 1 free and of course spend over x and get more points. These are tempting and always end up with me buying new beauty products. I also acquire too many beauty products through this side line, there are some really