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Travelling While Chronically Ill

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Travelling at the best of times can be stressful, confusing and tiring. Now imagine whilst doing that whilst you’re ill. It can be incredibly difficult at times, but the rewards of travelling making it more than worth it. I’ve travelled numerous times since being diagnosed with fibromyalgia and I’ve gathered a few tips that I think are invaluable when travelling with a chronic illness.

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6 Vegan Youtubers I watch

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When I first started dabbling into changing my diet, YouTube was a lifeline for me. There's such a wealth of information out there, but it can be easy to fall down the wrong rabbit hole. When my interest in veganism was piqued, I ended up looking at YouTubers that were promoting a lifestyle that I knew wouldn't be sustainable for me in the long term. As much as I like fruit and vegetables, I couldn't eat them raw all day every day. I struggle enough trying to get myself to eat the same thing two days in a row. Not that there is anything wrong with a raw diet. If it works for you, that's great and you keep doing you.
If you're interested in veganism, here for 6 YouTubers I watch, that you may find useful.

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Six things Chronically Ill people need to learn

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I feel like this is going to be a bit of an inflammatory post, I really do, especially within the spoonie community, or whatever it is we are calling ourselves these days. Are we warriors, spoonies, or munchkins? I don’t know. What I do know is that there are things some chronically ill people need to learn. I find a lot of the community to be incredibly negative and it personally puts me off.

1. You are not your illness.
You were a person before you got ill and you are still a person. Whatever your illness is, it doesn’t define you. If you were Andrea with the multi-coloured hair before you got ill, as long as dying your hair doesn’t make you worse – I know with some illnesses you become really sensitive to things so don’t make yourself ill to prove a point – you can still be Andrea with the multi-coloured hair. I’m still the same person I was before the diagnosis. I just move a little slower and rattle a little more than I did.

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Diving With A Chronic Illness

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In the summer, I learnt to dive. Which is something I never thought I would be able to do, mostly due to my chronic illnesses, but mostly because the water in the UK is freezing! Luckily, my dad invited me to join him on a trip to Thailand where both the weather and the water is much warmer when you compare it to a British summer. He was there to do his dive master course, and I thought I was there to try and get out of the rut of being chronically ill and chronically unemployed. However, he was insistent that I at least try the open water dive course to see if I liked it. As it turned out, I loved it. Then again, I was bound to love it as I've always enjoyed being in the water.


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