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Too Young

03/07/202503/07/2025 Steph Penny 2 Comments Surviving Chronic Illness

‘You’re too young to have arthritis!’ the doctor remarked. I took a breath before responding. Age amongst the chronically ill can be a sensitive topic, and many young people with chronic pain and disease experience minimising and dismissal from doctors on account of their youth. This, naturally, is not OK—yet many doctors still comment on […]

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Flares, Flowers and a Big Pile of Manure

24/11/202324/11/2023 Steph Penny Leave a comment Surviving Chronic Illness

I had a flare-up this week. Before you ask, everything is OK, but at one point it was so bad it landed me in hospital.  Flares can be scary. Chronic illness is painful enough, but when your symptoms flare from smouldering into flame, or when terrifying symptoms strike out of nowhere, it can bring your […]

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Welcoming Vulnerability? 

17/03/202317/03/2023 Steph Penny 4 Comments Surviving Perfectionism

Why do we struggle with vulnerability so badly? I find myself constantly coming up against the vulnerability of mystery in my life: the mystery of why I was single for so long (it felt interminable at the time), the risk of pregnancy going badly wrong, the insanity of chronic illness, and the way God sometimes […]

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