Having resolved to get up and continue the fight, I've been contemplating my priorities this week and what needs to change to reach my goals. I want to give a voice to Big Sue and talk about my spiritual and personal growth journey. I also want to help those facing the same difficulties as me by sharing what I've learned about the impact of nutrition and fasting on health, and to help those too sick to work to be able to support themselves financially. That latter aim has evolved since noticing Continue Reading
What’s the point?
It feels like every time I make progress with my health a new illness suddenly pops up, like a game of Whack-A-Mole on a grand scale. Just as I got back to the gym after several months of illness, I woke up with vertigo and as with every new symptom recently my mind rushed to the possibility of cancer. I have been told my blood tests show I have cancer, but that they haven't found its location, so that is now my mind's diagnosis for every new symptom that arises until proved otherwise. This, in Continue Reading
Dizziness and pets
I'm so dizzy my head is spinning, like a whirlpool, it never ends - Tommy Roe The morning after my 61st birthday I woke up feeling like I'd had a good night's sleep and turned my head to the side and as I did so the room seemed to slide into place a second later. 'That's weird' I thought and went to sit up. Then I realised there was something very, very wrong. The room spun about me at a rapid pace, like I was on some dizzy-making, vomit inducing, fairground ride. Just for the record, I Continue Reading