Posted on October 18, 2019
by Jenni Pettican
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‘You look so well’ It’s a phrase I absolutely dread hearing. The last time I remember hearing it was at my mum’s 60th birthday. Earlier in the day friends and neighbours may have spotted me leaving the house with my walker to get on…
Category: UncategorizedTags: chronic illness, chronically ill, disability, eds, ehlers-danlos, friday thoughts, Illness, invisible, invisible disabilities, invisible disabilities week, invisible illness, pain, pots, spoonie
Posted on August 24, 2019
by Jenni Pettican
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If Iβd have had to write my final university project two years ago, when I was part of the class of 2017, I couldnβt tell you what Iβd have written about, since going back to university I always knew that I wanted my project…
Category: Illness, UncategorizedTags: all that you can't see, awareness, chronic fatigue, chronic illness, chronic pain, chronically ill, docudrama, documentary, eds awareness, ehlers-danlos, ehlers-danlos syndrome, living with eds, living with ehlers danlos syndrome, project, radio, university, zebra
Posted on August 23, 2019
by Jenni Pettican
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Recently I’ve had a lot of questions from friends, colleagues and spoonie’s alike about my mobility aids. From how I started using them and accepting them as part of my life to why I do, or don’t, need them from one day to the…
Category: Illness, UncategorizedTags: babe with a mobility aid, chronic illness, chronically ill, different aids for different days, disability, disabled, eds, ehlers-danlos, ehlers-danlos syndrome, hsd, mobility aid, mobility aids, pots, spoonie, walker, walking stick, wheelchair, zebra