ACNH Blue Sunday 2022
This year I held my third annual ACNH Blue Sunday Tea Party and as with the previous years, it was so lovely to spend a little time with people on my island. The first two parties where held on my island of Hessa, with a little person of me hosting the party. But Hessa is so well established now and is exactly how I want it, that to host the tea party there this year would have meant a complete overhauling an area of the island. Thankfully, I had just reset another island I have, which I use as a “designing island” and so I incorporated a Blue Sunday Tea Party area into the design and decided that the party would be hosted my new character, Rue on her island of Cedar Cove…
World M.E Day
Hello Friends,
Today is World M.E Day and to help people understand what M.E or Myalgic Encephalomyelitis actually is, I thought I’d publish an article giving you an overview of the disease. I felt this was especially important since there’s been so much in the media about Long Covid ~ which is remarkably similar to M.E and some with people with Long Covid are now being diagnosed with M.E…
Photography and My Health
I think that is one of the things I love about Photography: it can be adapted to your given situation. You can make it work for you. Due to the limits on my energy supplies, I try to make every hit of the shutter button count. I take my time and really think about how I want the image to look and always try to get it right in camera rather than capturing anything and relying on editing afterwards.
Photographs and Souvenirs
…having that little trinket to show for the energy I've spent & the reason I'm now in bed in agony for days has much more meaning & importance. I actually didn't realise how important & positive this seemly little act of bringing something home was, until I went somewhere & returned with nothing, not even a photo to show for the PEM I was then experiencing. Pain & exhaustion were clouding my mind & I had to keep reminding myself that it was worth it & I had a nice time.
It was then that I realised how important it is to have something, either photographs or something else to remind you of the time you managed to spend out of the house.
What is M.E?
I thought I’d start this month’s M.E Awareness articles by talking about what M.E or Myalgic Encephalomyelitis actually is. I know many of you who read my articles actually have M.E, but there may be some of you who don’t and so maybe don’t know what it is. Also, there may be some of you reading this that are newly diagnosed with M.E and are looking for information. I hope this article is of use to you as well.
M.E Awareness Month 2021
May is here and that means it’s M.E Awareness Month!
If you’ve been reading my blog and articles for a while, you know this month is a time when I focus solely on raising awareness for M.E and all my articles for this month will be centred around that. As well as a few new articles, I’ve also decided to re-post a few articles I wrote last year and the year before that I had published on my old blog site. So my plan is to publish a new article every Monday and Friday ~ health allowing of course.
Here’s a couple other things I have coming up this month:
A Girl In One Room by Jessica Taylor-Bearman ~ Book Review
If you’ve been reading my articles for a while then you’ll know I love to write book reviews. I enjoy telling you all about the books I’ve been reading and my thoughts on them. But sometimes I come across a book that makes such a huge impact on me, that I find myself struggling to put my thoughts into words - in a good way. A Girl In One Room by Jessica Taylor-Beaman is one such book! But I’m going to do my best to tell you all about this book and my thoughts because Jessica’s story is an important one and the more people that read it, the better.
My Bed and M.E
This month is National Bed Month and like many chronically ill people, especially those with Moderate/Severe M.E, my bed is very important to me. So I thought I’d tell you bit about why that is and what I feel are some of the important factors in ensure you bed is a cosy a haven as possible.
Since becoming seriously ill, my bed isn’t just the place I sleep anymore as I spend at least 3 days out of 7 each week in it resting. So my bed, and by extension my bedroom, has become a lounge, a dining room, an office/study, a library and at times even a kitchen!
Can You See M.E?
This week is Invisible Disabilities Week {18th-24th October 2020} and since I live with not one but two invisible illnesses, I thought I’d take the opportunity to highlight this week. I’ll mainly be focusing on Myalgic Encephalomyelitis or M.E, though some of the things I’m going to highlight are also experienced by people with many other invisible illnesses.