Those of you that know me know I’m really not one of those eternally positive people so this may sound a strange thing for me to post about, you may also remember my goth-phase and my ongoing love for heavy metal so, on that front, it may not sound strange at all but here’s why I’m never concerned about having a visible surgery scar.
As someone who has struggled with a
An important lesson I have taken away from my spinal surgeon here in Hong Kong, which, I hasten to add none of my rheumatologists have ever have told me, is the importance of Vitamin D for ankylosing spondylitis. Particularly in my case as I am in the minority of sufferers who are gene- HLA-B27 *negative*. Dr. Yip who had his entire schooling in the UK explained how the latitude of
Wow – so it has actually been over a year since I wrote a blog post, last Easter I was struggling with an AS flare which was pretty severe and I wrote about my current exercise and maintenance routine. This year, it seems the spring has inspired me in a different way and I have made some changes to my work routine.
…and other things your doctor has absolutely no clue about.
So, I haven’t blogged in a while and frankly I’m utterly bored of social media seeing the same Twitter fights and the same insta-posts of the same people doing/saying the same things over and over like a hellish physio Groundhog Day. Honestly, if there is an afterlife, the ‘bad area’ will be populated by Physio-bros arguing over the BPS
So I haven’t blogged in a while and having just had a surgery on my neck, I had a realisation as the anaesthetic wore off… that I had been extremely traumatised by being in hospital in 2018 and by the pain and difficulties that surrounded that series of events. I’m not writing this for any sympathy or some sort of medal, but, as with all my blogging, it’s become somewhat