coping with chronic illness

Laughter is the best medicine – crashes, falls and close calls on the sit ski

When we have a chronic illness or disability it can sometimes be difficult to just laugh and seek out things to enjoy. Getting by is hard enough, let alone trying to remember to laugh! I pulled together this footage me falling on the sit ski, in the hope that smashes and crashes might be interestingContinue reading “Laughter is the best medicine – crashes, falls and close calls on the sit ski”

Making Exercise Stick

For those of you who don’t know me, I’ve got a type of spondyloarthropathy, which is in my spine, hands and feet, arms and legs. It mostly affects my tendons, where they attach to the bones (enthesitis). I’ve had this disease for about 9 years. In the past, I often chose to rest on theContinue reading “Making Exercise Stick”

Heli-ski in a Sit Ski

Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape. Rumi Having something to inspire me helps me to cope. When my walls were closing in from chronic illness, I needed to have something positive in my life that kept my world open. For me, being filled up with positive emotions helps keep myContinue reading “Heli-ski in a Sit Ski”