drama
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… than the sound of your dog about to vomit. I’m writing this at 5am, 20 minutes after this exact scenario occurred. Bentley is an old fella, an English bulldog of 10 years 8 months. Current stats put their life expectancy at around 8 years so he’s well past his expiry date but no major…
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Weekend before last we went back to Reading for a very good friend’s birthday party and to see some family. We were due to stay with my mum (she has a ground floor maisonette) and I was looking forward to going “out-out” for the first time in forever! The day started well, I got up…
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I’m not one of those diligent people that meticulously checks her bank statement every month. Hell I don’t check it EVER. Why would I? So it can tell me I’m skint? Nah, I’ll pass thanks, I don’t need that kind of negativity in my life. However, the downside of living in such blissful ignorance (aside…
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Last week should have been a fairly uneventful one, I had one measly appointment at the local small hospital for my feet to get measured for some orthotic shoes as my ankles are severely pronated and very painful. That was it. But nothing in my life is that drama-free these days! My appointment was at…
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(TW: spider image further down) I’ve been sleeping exclusively on the sofa (settee/couch, whatever you call it) for around six months now. I hate it, my husband and I are traditional co-sleepers and neither of us want to sleep separately but until I can move to a bungalow this is how it’s just going to…
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I 100% consider myself a dog person, we have had dogs since I was baby. They have always been present in our family and when I left home the first 18 months in a rented property without a dog was very very odd. Luckily we had a landlord who was a friend of ours and…
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All those with a chronic illness know all too well the tedium of constant hospital visits. On Monday I had a follow up on an ankle injury I sustained back in 2022 – this was the appointment I was on my way to in Dec when I crashed my bloody car. Anyway, it reminded me…
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In this day and age you are quite entitled to identify as whatever you want, if social media has taught us anything, it’s taught us that. However, I identify as a woman, a female, as was assigned to me at birth. When we first moved to our house in a new area, I had to…
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Quite literally. So I’ve had my fair share of cars in the 24ish years I’ve been driving, passing my driving test was THE #1 priority as soon as I turned 17. And I LOVE driving. I started off with a little run around for my first two years and then quickly worked my way up…
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Nobody tells you when you’re diagnosed with a condition such as MS just what you have to give up. You kind of work on the assumption that, yeah, you probably won’t be running any marathons (although people do!) or whatever but it’s the seemingly little things that really affect you. Or they do me anyway……
The Sweary MSer 