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  • The Good of Ills #1: Sometimes you will get left behind

    The Good of Ills #1: Sometimes you will get left behind

    I am having a lot of sliding door moments these days. What would my life look like?  …If I had applied to that job I badly wanted. If I hadn’t been afraid to try something physically demanding. If I had written that book when I said I would. If I hadn’t had that hospital admission […]

    EllyA-F

    June 17, 2022
    Work
    career, chronic illness, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, health, progress, Work
  • The Good of Ills: An Introduction.

    The Good of Ills: An Introduction.

    My life is unrecognisable. Unrecognisably good.

    I start my day without a coughing fit. It’s a refreshing new normal.

    EllyA-F

    June 13, 2022
    Work
    #purpose, career, cystic fibrosis, health, illness, Work, work life balance
  • The Good of Ills #2: Vulnerability is a superpower

    The Good of Ills #2: Vulnerability is a superpower

    Even as I type the title I feel uncomfortable: this lesson is easy to tell, less so to show. The value of vulnerability is a principle that a lot of us appreciate, in theory.  That doesn’t mean we like how it feels. Over the course of 10 years working, I went from not declaring my […]

    EllyA-F

    July 12, 2022
    Work
    career, cystic fibrosis, diversityandinclusion, health, mental health, vulnerability
  • My search for happier, healthier work on CFNewsToday

    My search for happier, healthier work on CFNewsToday

    I’ve recently become a columnist for CFNewsToday. I publish weekly on the topic of working and professional life with Cystic Fibrosis. I highly recommend you head over there to see the most up-to-date posts, but from time to time I will share them here. In the not-too-distant past, I was a wide-eyed, coffee-swilling exec with […]

    EllyA-F

    February 27, 2019
    Work
    #cfnewstoday, #chronicillness, #cysticfibrosis, #worklifebalance, orkambi
  • Tinder dates from a West London hospital

    Tinder dates from a West London hospital

    And now for something a little different. I’m writing a book, yup a real actual book with all the words in it. The working title is: Professional Sick Girl – The untold and unexpected lessons of a lifelong illness. Below is a short extract that explores some of the realities of luurve with a health condition. […]

    EllyA-F

    July 13, 2018
    Life
    chronic illness, coeliac, cystic fibrosis, dating, love, rejection, relationships, rheumatoid arthritis, tinder in hospital
  • Why we must talk about illness when it isn’t life or death

    Why we must talk about illness when it isn’t life or death

    I want to take a minute to tell you why Professional Sick Girl exists. It’s true, I like to write; it’s my way of connecting with the world around me. But the reason I write about the things I do is to raise the profile of people with chronic illnesses, and the many different lives […]

    EllyA-F

    March 2, 2018
    Life, Travel, Work
    chronic illness, cystic fibrosis, friday thoughts, health, living well, Professional Sick Girl, wellness, why I write, Work
  • How to plan a career when you’re predicted to die in 10 years

    How to plan a career when you’re predicted to die in 10 years

    I felt guilty writing the title of this post. It’s not something I’d relish reading from a friend or loved one and I can only imagine what it’s like as a parent. But I think people reading this without lived experience of illness need to understand this feeling as much as they possibly can. I […]

    EllyA-F

    February 15, 2018
    Work
    blogger, career, chronic illness, cystic fibrosis, London, motivation, professional, work life, writing
  • The Jekyll and Hyde life

    The Jekyll and Hyde life

    Hooo boy. Illness. It is quite the ice breaker at a party. When I meet a new person I like to tell them at least once that I have a life- threatening lung condition. Sometimes I like to chat about the four different types of broad-spectrum potent antibiotics I’m on at any one time. If […]

    EllyA-F

    January 30, 2018
    Life, Work
    British politics, cystic fibrosis, discrimination, health, identity, illness, jekyll and hyde, Life, wellness
  • A false start

    A false start

    The truth is I don’t particularly like to talk about it when I’m having a hard time. Actually, let me rephrase that, I don’t like to share on the internet with total strangers when I’m too whacked to get out of bed for a week and look like I’m still recovering from an epic NYE […]

    EllyA-F

    January 23, 2018
    Life
    #cysticfibrosis, health, justsaynotojanuary, newyear, resolutions, wellness
  • Travelling carefree and with a carry-on full of drugs

    Travelling carefree and with a carry-on full of drugs

    Previously I’ve written about working with a condition, amongst other aspects of life but I haven’t shared any travel stories. This is the first post in a series on travelling with chronic illness. Fresh out of school 10 years ago, I travelled to Cuba for two months to learn Spanish and fail at Salsa. I […]

    EllyA-F

    December 15, 2017
    Travel
    cystic fibrosis, diabetes, Professional Sick Girl, South East Asia, travel blog, travelling, Vietnam
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