So, I’ve mentioned before I have a range of illnesses. I’ve also just learned I have some pretty severe indicators of future cardiovascular disease (but hopefully that’s been picked up early enough for me to fix). But this post is about mental illness. I’m a survivor of a lot of traumatic stuff that I won’t … Continue reading Losing your mind
Author: rubyhorizons
I am a chronic illness blogger, writing about the challenges of living with a chronic illness and how I deal with them.
Fibromyalgia Awareness Day
I am a little late on this one! Fibro Awareness Day was May 12th, and here I am half a week later putting up a post about it. I was diagnosed with fibro a few years ago now. It was completely unexpected, though looking back I can see those symptoms. It's not my only chronic … Continue reading Fibromyalgia Awareness Day
Travelling with chronic illness
I am heading off on my first business trip shortly. It will also be the first time since becoming ill that I have travelled alone. So I am in full-on planning/prep mode right now. I'm lucky enough that my work has a staff house so I will have access to all the things an abled … Continue reading Travelling with chronic illness
Compromise and help
One of the first lessons I had to learn when I begame ill was that my capabilities were now far less than what they once were. Pacing is something you hear about a lot when you are chronically ill. But pacing means compromise. It means allowing yourself to let go of some things so you … Continue reading Compromise and help
How religion helps me cope with chronic pain
I want to preface this by saying I am casually religious at best. My beliefs are simple - as long as nature exists, so does what I believe in. I consider myself to be pagan, taking from some of the many religions that make up paganism the things that help me cope and leaving behind … Continue reading How religion helps me cope with chronic pain
My journey from pain to diagnosis
The day of my diagnosis was not a life-changing moment. It's fairly common for people to have years between the onset of pain and their diagnosis, and I am no exception to that. So by the time I got diagnosed, I already had a pretty clear idea of what I was dealing with. For me, … Continue reading My journey from pain to diagnosis
My top 5 apps to manage chronic illness
These are my favourite phone apps for monitoring and managing health and chronic illness
From failure to thriving
Prompts from A Chronic Voice's March 2019 Linkup Party
How I cope with flare days
Everyone has their ways of coping with flare days, and I want to share some of mine. I have spent a lot of time battling through the flare days, especially when I first started dealing with them. Once I was through the flare, I would punish myself for falling behind on housework by trying to … Continue reading How I cope with flare days
Spoonie Hobbies
Hypermobility, for me at least, comes with difficulties using my hands. I have always had issues with writing. I just can't grip pens properly and in high school, that resulted in a big lump on the side of one finger where my pen had to rest so I could write. Now I have trouble hand … Continue reading Spoonie Hobbies
Ruby the Chronic 