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Chronic illness: best laid plans

July 20, 2018 Nikki

the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry It is summer. There are loads of things to do in the summer. We get

Are limits meant to be… nudged?

May 27, 2018 Nikki

Sometimes we exceed our limits to have an adventure… and we pay the price. But we plan for the consequences of our actions and are

You know you have chronic pain when…

April 18, 2018 Nikki

You know you have chronic pain when… You have nuanced pain to a variety of levels of intolerable and tolerable, functional and non-functional. When you

Chronic illness: Knowing the past is fearing the future

March 25, 2018 Nikki

For some of us, we have years of pain to reflect on. And that can mean times where we didn’t cope well at all.

Chronic pain: How we are socially unacceptable

March 9, 2018 Nikki

I’m just going to say it, there is a lot of stigma with chronic pain that makes society as a whole judge us as socially

Chronic Pain: Fake it till you make it

March 3, 2018 Nikki

Just Fake it till you Make it Just push through the pain I have lived with chronic pain for a very long time and that

We wear our pain on the inside

February 27, 2018 Nikki

We mask our pain We lose our pain behaviors We become invisible. We all learn to have a façade to hide the pain for various

Illness & work: I hit myself in the feels

February 25, 2018 Nikki

I was talking to my spouse about my capacity to work which is nill right now, and the incapacity for my insurance company to pay

Chronic Illness: “You’re faking it”

February 22, 2018 Nikki

You’re faking it One of the most common stigmas we hear is ‘You’re faking it.’ In some form or another. To get on disability. To

One-third of pain patients have comorbid pain

February 6, 2018 Nikki

There was a study done here in Canada with 4000 participants that demonstrated in patients with chronic pain, one third of them have comorbid chronic

Dealing with lower functionality

January 26, 2018 Nikki

So things with the vestibular symptoms on top of everything else have limited my functionality and therefore my capacity to distract myself from the pain.