The thing about chronic disease is it's all lollipops and rainbows till it isn't - and well, yeah it's not usually all lollipops and rainbows neither. After a good few months cutting out gluten as a main staple of my diet and after working on the whole 5 veg, 2 fruit thing and changing up my breakfast diet, I was starting to feel really good. Damn ( Read more... )

So I got hives both starting and breaking my fast this year. I was up till 3am this morning though to be fair, after I showered at 1am (I still love you fred_mouse for suggesting something that works in that hour of desperation), the itching went away and I was left with only regretting the strong coffee I had at 7.30pm ( Read more... )

I must say how very supported I suddenly feel at work by the next level up of management - just bumped into a manager for a different section who was worried and asked me how job hunting was going. She has given a couple of contracts out too this week. And it was on her advice that I sent my CV to the branch manager who passed it on when my soon to ( Read more... )

Thankfully, I think my Crohn's flare up has calmed down. I've still got a bit of IBS but that's normal after your gut experiences aggravation or inflammation. Hopefully it too will settle down in the next week or so. I feel better about it because IBS feels like something I can control - I know my triggers and I know when it's (usually) my fault ( Read more... )

I've been following the case of the boy in Sydney who died of anaphylaxis after eating peanut butter on a school excursion. His case was originally presented some time ago along with others on a Sunday cover story. His teacher was told that he was allergic to peanuts. Here is what she said today in court:

Teacher Jennifer Jackson, who organised ( Read more... )