My Journey... every step of the way.: Cuddles with Guinea Pigs...

For life's little ups and downs.

A rather quirky, funny and sometimes daunting look in to the life of someone who has a lot of health problems but does their best to keep positive. Punctuated by guinea pigs, anime, superheroes, transforming robots and cross stitching.

I started this blog to tell my story, about who I am and what I do. On top of the health problems and raising awareness for those, I also use my blog as a way to help promote other causes, particularly ones which affect the most vulnerable. I live with a number of different and complex health problems but I refuse to let anything get me down. I know how it feels to be discriminated against or thrown aside. This is me. This is my life. I live it and do what I want with it. Nature sets the limitations. We set the boundaries.

About Me:

A blog about life. I live with Type 1 Brittle Asthma, Bi-Polar Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder as well as Various Allergies, Neutropenia, Crohns Disease (my IBS was rediagnosed as Crohns), Osteo and Rheumatoid Arthritis, PCOS and Osteoporosis and Heredetary Spastic Paraplegia. I have recently also been diagnosed with Sleep Apnea (which makes me stop breathing in my sleep) I live with these conditions, but I refuse to let them keep me down and out. I still try and make the most of my days despite being so poorly and having to rely on my wheelchair, nebulisers, nearly 50 pills a day and 2l/min of oxygen and CPAP.

I'll flap my broken wings and erase it all someday... You'll see.

Tuesday 2 November 2010

Cuddles with Guinea Pigs...

After a long, symptomatic day, I enjoy nothing more than to lie in bed, next to my beautiful Rex Guinea Pig, Patch. I have had Patch for about 2 years now and he is pretty much one of my closest companions. When I adopted him, it had been a rough week, one of my hamsters had died, I was in a turbulent relationship and I was about to go down a road that I never want to even think of again.

So sometimes when I lay in bed, Patch lays at my side, falling asleep next to me. I've been struggling again today and its still feeling hard to catch my breath. But tomorrow is way too busy for me to be able to afford time in hospital. So I hope I can battle on until tomorrow, I've been struggling for nearly 4 days now, which is typical before a biggie. I really hope I'm wrong. I REALLY hope I'm wrong.

I slept most of the afternoon away, I just felt to exhausted before my chest tried to play up. I got up and went to the loo, nothing too exciting there, but I went and did my, shall we say biz and I just couldn't breathe. I was wheezing and coughing. General nastiness until I got on my neb, a good session of that later and I felt better. Maybe its just the hope that the little snap was just that, a little snap really.

I'm actually hungry so this may be a good sign, so I'm gonna fix me some egg fried rice.

LOVES YOU!

Wendy x

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So, what is this blog?

This is a blog about my life and what I do. Sometimes its witty and others it can be quite serious, but I feel that sometimes the steps you take in life are the building blocks for the future. I try and at least keep a positive outlook on things because sometimes that can be enough to get you through. So, come and delve in to this crazy, spontaneous and sometimes scary world of mine.

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