Those who rely on assistance dogs to live their lives face discrimination even in hospitals and GP surgeries. You may have noticed a recent article by the BBC addressing JD Wetherspoon’s potentially illegal policy on assistance dogs, but this issue isn’t just confined to the pub. Kieran Connors is fully blind, hearing impaired and has frequent seizures, so relies on his mastiff guide dog, Bodhi. Bodhi unloading the washing machine for Kieran Kieran described his ‘worst acc

The hardest part of my ulcerative colitis diagnosis, so far, has probably been the trial and error with medication - meaning I haven’t been healthy and well for a prolonged period of time since the diagnosis. On top of this, it all happened over my first and second years at university...

Some of you reading this blog probably know the definition of a chronic condition, or at least something along the right lines, especially if you have a condition of your own. There is a chance, however, that what you think makes a chronic condition, isn’t completely correct, or that you simply don’t know (which is totally valid)...

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I don’t imagine I need to tell you who Venus Williams is, but I’ll do so anyway. One of the greatest tennis players to ever grace the...

“I’d never heard of MS before I was diagnosed, but my mother, [...] she was the one there bawling her eyes out, crying her head off.”

Imagine that instead of sitting down to your dinner in the evening, you had to plug yourself in for a 12-hour IV infusion...