My Journey... every step of the way.: Itchy face...

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.

Sunday, 23 January 2011

Itchy face...

I always know when I have been run down or under the weather, I end up with hives and my eczema really plays up. My body, as it has no natural immunity to ANYTHING, overcompensates and pretends to be allergic to itself as it attacks itself. Although I have NO allergies to anything, apart from, it seems, myself. So my body has loads of clusters of hives and my face is swollen, crusty and painful with eczema and I have to take anti-histamines to try and calm it down.

Needless to say, my chest isn't best pleased by all of this either, and I have been coughing and spluttering like mad. This isn't the most fun in the world, but it is all par for the course really when you live with Brittle Asthma and have such a bad immune system. I was paranoid about gaining weight, but it seems again that I have lost some, probably due to the fact that the last week or so, I didn't eat much, until yesterday and the day before when I porked down like it was going out of fashion! But this is a typical pattern for me, while coming down with something, I will eat like a horse for 2 or 3 days, then will do up to 2 weeks on nothing or near as damn it.

I managed to get some photos of the slabs that caused my accident, all I have to say there is thanks Google! for Google Earth!! I got some photos of the exact point I tripped, I have copies of my x-rays and a photo of my foot just afterwards. SUCCESS!!!

Loves
Wendy xx

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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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