Exam season isn’t easy for anyone, but I’m more than confident when I say that exam season is at least 10x worse for those of us with disabilities; as I have just sat possibly my last ever academic exams I thought I would write a post about how exam season affects me personally.
A member of one of the syringomyelia Facebook pages that I’m a part of posted a few weeks ago, telling us all about a new bath product she had tried. Better You Magnesium Original Flakes claim to “aid in skin and bone health and relief from muscle stiffness and cramping” so I thought I would give them a go.
I’m sure I’ll eventually use my blog to do rants about my various illnesses so I thought it would make sense to write a couple of pieces that briefly tell the different stories of what I’ve been through since I was 16! I’m not great at remembering dates but I’ll try to make it as accurate as possible.
What they don’t tell you is how much they want to stick you in a lab or on a slab so that they can study you, watch you and work out exactly what makes your condition tick… because with a condition like mine, syringomyelia, they know what happens, they know everything that’s going wrong but not why.
Shaving. That thing that 90% of the population HATE doing. But I can promise you, doing it when you’re broken is a whole new world of hate. I was in the shower, washing my hair yano ‘normal’ shower activities and when I bent down to start shaving my legs something hit me (probably a confused nerve sending a random message to the brain, but on this occasion that’s okay) – it really fkin hurts to shave your legs when you’re a #spoonie.
