Nog Pepper Me Blog

Over the last year I've been going on a personal journey to improve my needlework by stitching different animals. I was inspired by the beautiful animals we saw when we visited Chester Zoo and watched their tv programme "The secret life of the zoo". Chester Zoo is our local zoo, both Andy and I are members so we try to go as often as we can. My health does limit this but with the membership it means we only have to go for a couple of hours if I don't feel like walking around for long. Plus we don't feel like...

I've decided to put together a series of blog posts to talk about how living with a chronic illness affects me and my first post talks about the invisible 'Brick Wall'. I'm not a doctor and everyone is different but this is my experience and some of the ways I've learnt to manage, granted most days not that well but I like to think that I am now on a happier path. Anyone out there who suffers with a chronic illness or health condition will know how difficult it is managing on a day to day basis. Simple tasks become unachievable and pie...