"You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy" a quote by Nightbirde. I’ve seen this quote shared so many times this last week and I myself, was one to share it. I shared it and I cried. It’s a statement that very well deserves to be shared a million [...]
March is MS awareness month! So, even though I seemed to be on a “blog-break” because I’m too busy writing my thesis, I couldn’t not stop to write a blog in honor of this important month. I decided to write something different to what I normally write, possibly because exactly a year into a pandemic, with [...]
Yesterday, an article went out on the Sunday Times where my friend Amy and I were interviewed about our views regarding the Covid19 vaccine and its priority list. After reading the article I was somewhat disappointed to realise that there was so much more that I wanted to say and that I'm possibly much better at [...]
I’ve been sitting on this blog for a while now, but never came around to publishing it. The reason for this, is that I always felt this journal was a little too raw and I was worried I’d scare people from taking the medication they need. But today something changed. I spoke to a brave 24-year-old [...]
I seem to be having a bit of a writer’s block. I realise it’s been over a month that I don’t sit here and write… about MS, about life, about living with a debilitating condition or two…. And yet it’s something I think about every day nowadays, much more than I ever did in fact. Covid19 [...]
By now, those of you that read my blogs know a few facts about me. You know that I'm a 36-year-old mum, a psychotherapist in training, and I suffer from MS. What you don't yet know is that I have a second autoimmune condition called Palindromic Rheumatoid Arthritis and today I'm angry, I’m livid. I’m [...]
When a person is physically unwell, possibly suffers from a chronic condition or faces physical challenges…. there’s medicine which can help, but sometimes, it just doesn’t. Even when taking a best-case scenario, and assuming medicine does help treat some or all of your physical symptoms, what medicine cannot do…. is heal your soul. What medicine [...]
“What is it like to become a mum with MS?” “Should a woman with MS have a child?” These are just a couple of questions I am pretty sure any woman diagnosed with MS, or any other debilitating disease, has asked herself at some point or another. And my honest answer is, if you are [...]
I have been drafting this blog post since Sunday, and I have changed it every day since. Unfortunately, this is all due to the very confusing "advice" that has been sent out to the general public (in a rather embarrassing manner) regarding “vulnerable” persons during this time. I was so proud of Malta and the way [...]