September 12th, 2020 12:02 pm

My Lyrica Closure

By |2020-09-12T15:50:18+10:00September 12th, 2020|Categories: Blog, Learn, Professional Resources|Tags: , |

Life's pace is vastly slower if you are living with chronic pain. Anticipated outcomes from things like new treatments, explanations about causes of pain, pain research, realisations about personal ideas relating to my own experience all take months, years and even over a decade to arrive. Yesterday was the day I finally received some closure about the wicked Lyrica. There's been a build-up of medication reporting this past year but none of it hit the spot like The Project's report. I love the reporting on this show – it's one of the few programs that brings me to the TV. While watching last night, I got that bullseye feeling: I'm not crazy! How often does a person living with pain come to this blissful realisation? Not often enough I can tell you.

September 6th, 2020 11:10 am

Life’s Changed

By |2022-09-06T11:42:36+10:00September 6th, 2020|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , |

Not knowing what's ahead is a familiar nightmare for people living with chronic illness and injured workers and their families. This lived experience has been misunderstood. This lack of empathy could not have been understood without the personal experience of something like COVID-19 – something impacting the world. Even Governments may just get a glimpse of looking down at their feet and feeling the ground below them is trembling. Being unable to make plans and left dangling, waiting to hear about a way forward – whether you can resume work or even have a job (or business) is excruciating. Add a long-term health issue to that equation and the world begins to fall in on you. You can't help but ask, 'will I get through this?'

August 28th, 2020 8:14 pm

Aug 28, 2020

By |2022-09-06T11:42:36+10:00August 28th, 2020|Categories: About, Living|Tags: , , |

8am – 12noon tradies here ‘fixing’ heating/cooling unit (making noise, causing disruption and breaking much-needed silence). + Phone calls, all day (important, relating to mum’s future care plan). + Huge tree on [...]

August 22nd, 2020 1:13 pm

SOOVit

By |2020-08-22T13:13:35+10:00August 22nd, 2020|Categories: Learn, Personal resources|

So many great things happen when you turn 50! Here are some friends I didn’t expect to pop around. But then again, with all the resting on the toilet, endless spasms of [...]

July 26th, 2020 11:55 am

Four Corners Examines Insurers Contracted to run Australia’s Largest Workers Compensation Schemes

By |2023-01-24T16:12:26+11:00July 26th, 2020|Categories: News, Workcover|Tags: , , , |

Four Corners Be sure to watch and share the program. (Excerpt from www.abc.net.au Posted Thu 23 Jul 2020, 6:06pm) “Immoral and unethical”: The financial scandal and human cost of Australia’s failing workers [...]

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