My latest…
Resources for Treating Chronic Pain by the Pain Specialists Australia (PSA) …MY pain team!
Forgive my bossiness but this post comes from a desperate [...]
Adventures of a stim controller
Ever wondered what a stim’s controller’s day looks like? Firstly, [...]
Time to exercise – but how?
It took six full months for me to feel I [...]
Who am I going to be – Soula ‘a’, ‘b’ or ‘c’?
My new stim’s changed everything. I’m grateful. Can you imagine [...]
Drug dependency lessons from Pharma ads and my two mothers
I can’t stand TV as it hurts to sit or [...]
I made a gallery
True! Theo and I made [...]
My pain management is turning into a thesis!
It’s taken almost 9 years but I’ve realised that chronic [...]
This injured worker is about to burst
(Image from my book, Art & Chronic pain – A [...]
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!)?
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).
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...
Dr Doidge, Are Some Brains More Plastic than Others?
I never shop from my phone, but given Theo and [...]