diagnosis

  • Three not-so-little words Following on from ‘Drowning in my Diagnoses…part one’. 2016: Having spent several months in Egypt, I am now concerned that whatever a Tarlov Cyst is, it is causing more problems than I first thought. Whilst hiking in Egypt, I had been experiencing more back pain and had started to trip over with

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  • An ill-fitting box ‘…I put the word “diagnosis” in quotes because I have not yet seen that case in which a “diagnosis” led to a “cure”, or in fact to any outcome other than a confirmed, and therefore an enforced, debility.’ – Joan Didion, Blue Nights. I spent decades wanting a diagnosis, a meaning, a

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