HeyJaredPoetry, Tea and Life with ME
Writing and poetry from me - a middle-aged woman with a chronic illness (ME/CFS) and undiagnosed, late identified ADHD learning to navigate a healing journey and letting go of the 'old me' while trying to figure out what's next. Want to join me?
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Accessibility, Adaptations, Acceptance and Autumn days... (opens the original)
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Perfectly Messily ME (opens the original)
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Hello all! There isn’t a proper new post this week as I am currently in an ME flare up thanks to a holiday in the Lake District last week - Despite lots of resting, I did do a bit more walking (with a rollator) than I usually do and, although I did also have some lovely trips out in the wheelchair thanks to my fabulous hubby, I had to negotiate stairs into the apartment we were staying in, and I was out of the house a lot more than I usually am and eating yummy food, so I guess it caught up with
the inner critic vs the cheerleader (opens the original)
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The destruction of a friendship (opens the original)
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Braving the shave (opens the original)
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When I was a child I had really ginger (or strawberry blonde as I called it) hair, tatty curls and, combined with the freckles on my face, I hated it. I wanted to look like everyone else, anyone without frizzy hair that was. I wanted the type of hair you didn’t have to fight to get a brush through. My Dad and Stepmum took me to a hairdressers when I was 10 to have my beautiful ginger curls cut off due to their inability to look after my hair, and I was given a super short cut instead, enough for
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