Showing posts with label eyes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eyes. Show all posts
Friday, 1 November 2019

A woodpecker just when I needed one

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I rest a lot in my bedroom. I read there too and also watch garden birds, I have a chair at the window. It is my meditation, my way of bein...
Wednesday, 13 June 2018

Ten years since The State of Me - publishing & illness (&Lionel Shriver)

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This August it will  be ten years since the The State of Me was published. I'm still very proud of the novel and it remains my weapon i...
Sunday, 11 September 2016

Like being in a boxing match

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I'm very prone to post-cold coughs that go on forever - possibly because I have chronic sinusitis (from over-using mothballs years ago)...
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Tuesday, 29 October 2013

Lou Reed, Doris Lessing and Lionel Shriver

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I felt sad about Lou Reed, 71 is not old (especially as I am approaching 50). You feel sad not only for the (at times, grumpy) man, but fo...
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Sunday, 24 February 2013

Latest research on ME and autoimmunity

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Am so happy that bright minds are engaged in biomedical research  (though I, naturally, remain cautious about shouting anything concrete fr...
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Friday, 16 March 2012

99 reasons why I should go back to my Kindle

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I keep almost forgetting I've got a Kindle but on Monday I will be eagerly downloading Caroline Smailes' innovative ebook 99 Reaso...
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Tuesday, 31 January 2012

Post-Alba: 'Toxic Tiredness' (Part Two) - updated

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(*Having re-watched Part Two, I've now added to this post in bold at the end.   And Part One is blogged here . **Also, both parts are...
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Tuesday, 27 December 2011

You've got the sea in your eyes

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Had lovely few Christmas days (and birthday!) with my family. My favourite time, bedtime, bantering with my nephews who I was sharing a room...
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Tuesday, 8 November 2011

Blue

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Yesterday was the first day I wore my winter coat. At the eye hospital,  I sat next to a window, the sky more blue than it was in summer, a...
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Sunday, 20 February 2011

The evils of psychiatry aka the PACE trial

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The architects of the PACE trial appear to be very confused - they cannot tell the difference between neuroimmune illness and psychiatric i...
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Sunday, 13 February 2011

Guardian books podcast & Egypt

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The Guardian podcast on books on illness is here , I was delighted to get a mention (approx 14 mins in), I really did not expect to, thank...
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Tuesday, 25 January 2011

A view from Spain...

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At the weekend I had an email from Clara Valverde who had also just finished reading The State of Me . She observed how important it is t...
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Saturday, 18 December 2010

A broken leg (not that kind)

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I fell asleep on my glasses the other night. I thank my lucky stars not my everyday lovely glasses, but my spares which I use for reading ...
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Wednesday, 13 October 2010

The opposite of the moon

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I'm not the first to have observed that the fascinating and moving rescue of the Chilean miners has been reminiscent of watching a moon...
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Sunday, 29 August 2010

Books & truth & blood

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I was truly sad to read about Candia McWilliam's struggle with a rare eye condition . I met her in the mid-nineties, she was funny and ...
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Friday, 9 April 2010

Words

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Someone somewhere said that in the novel I did not make enough of the brain fog you get with ME. Maybe Helen Fleet was not so affected, or ...
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Thursday, 4 February 2010

A week

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What a week, physio on Tue and eye hosp yesterday. And more snow. I really hate the snow by now. I want to shoot it or injure it in some wa...
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Wednesday, 9 December 2009

Broken

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I would prefer not to have broken my beautiful Danish plate - once upon a time hanging in the hall - but that's what you get when you w...
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Wednesday, 4 November 2009

Eye talk

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Well, my (anterior) chambers may be deep and quiet, but the pressures are still fucked and I forgot to defrost the mince. I hate using the m...
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Saturday, 19 September 2009

Whiteness

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The eyedrops I have switched to are white, it's like putting Tipex in your eyes and makes me think of the characters in Jose Saramago...
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