a significant of mine is in hospital atm, and i've been doing a bit of research into vegan food and support in hospital on their behalf.

i know from expereince how difficult it can be to get fed appropriately in hospital as a vegan - my own experiences have included not being well catered for even with prior 'warning', and/or vegan items ( Read more... )

yesturday while at the royal free hospital i discovered it is tinnitus awareness week.

i was pleasantly surprised, and appreciative of their audiology department for making a small public awareness event in a corridor/walkway.

i'm very aware of tinnitus... especially if there's no other sound for my ears/brain to focus on! but i'd not been aware ( Read more... )

last week, at the weekend, and earlier in the week i was worrying i wouldn't be fit to attend the 'trans with pride' conference... but after lots of sleep on thursday, i found myself on a train bound for london town on friday morning *smile* ( Read more... )

last week i discovered that if you are over 60 years of age, or disabled, you can get up to 50% off your coach fares with national express... and that their definition(s) of 'disabled' definitely include mental health. ( Read more... )

a friend alerted me to this petition to integrate complementary and alternative therapies into the NHS ( Read more... )

susanstinson posted a link to this really interesting looking conference - against health: resisting the invisible morality - which has just happened in ann arbor, in the USA.

the yougov survey i just completed was short and sweet and about cervical screening - interesting and pleasing (that someone wants to know about peoples' awareness and resposne to cervical screening).

the government currently owe me £13.

just reading a bit around that depression meme... "Bipolar is the only depressive disorder that is not heavily skewed toward women." *laughs manically* the environmental factors bearing upon a lot of 'mental health dis-orders' are so glaringly obvious from this one sentence, yet overlooked in amongst the medicalisation and pathologisation that is ( Read more... )