Time to exercise – but how?
It took six full months for me to feel I was ready to have my follow up appointment with Dr Nick Christelis after my Sacral Stimulation Implant. I got a few ticks [...]
June 27th, 2016
7:48 pm
June 12th, 2016
9:52 pm
Who am I going to be – Soula ‘a’, ‘b’ or ‘c’?
My new stim’s changed everything. I’m grateful. Can you imagine if the whole process (from trial to permanent implant) hadn’t change anything? In addition to the stim changing everything, I’m living a [...]
April 18th, 2016
3:21 pm
Drug dependency lessons from Pharma ads and my two mothers
I can’t stand TV as it hurts to sit or lie back and watch but recently, while tuning in to one of the very few shows I do watch, I caught a [...]
December 28th, 2015
11:47 am
I made a gallery
True! Theo and I made a huge life move as many of you have read. Our transition began over a year ago when we escaped to Tasmania [...]
October 24th, 2015
5:26 pm
My pain management is turning into a thesis!
It’s taken almost 9 years but I’ve realised that chronic pain requires alot of study – dare I say never-ending study? I believe my research for pain relief for chronic pain may [...]
October 20th, 2015
9:18 am
This injured worker is about to burst
(Image from my book, Art & Chronic pain – A Self Portrait) I’m going to erupt! I feel I’ve been left without any avenue to vent the poor treatment I’ve experienced as [...]
September 28th, 2015
8:18 pm
How can you know? There might be better treatment out there!
I know that living with pain for over eight years reduces confidence and belief. It even (warning, I'm going to use the C word), discourages hope for a cure. But how could I have assumed I found my best self for four years (nearly five actually, gulp!)?
August 11th, 2015
10:35 am
Back on the treatment trail
So someone got talking to someone on a plane (you know how that story goes, your eyes begin to glaze over because you're in pain thinking 'if this friend tells me I need to meet someone and sustain a new friendship, I'm going to punch him' - but in the end, it works out that you wished you had sat next to that someone on the plane, and you meet that person and you wished you had met them a very long time ago (like eight years ago for me).
June 28th, 2015
10:02 am
Peripheral Stim messing with my bone density score
Thinning bones at the age of 43. That's not good, in fact I landed, once again, in that unique and very small group of patients with a rare condition...
May 30th, 2015
11:24 am
Dr Doidge, Are Some Brains More Plastic than Others?
I never shop from my phone, but given Theo and I were away for the weekend (researching our next phase of life), I felt it was worth the risk responding to The [...]