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  • 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
  • The Tale of the CF Cinderella

    The Tale of the CF Cinderella

    Do you ever just stop and take a minute, to think about which Disney heroine you might have been in another life? Like many a millennial I often seek to take inspiration from Walt and shoehorn my experiences into the relevant cartoon princess. Say, If I were to sum up the experience of having Cystic Fibrosis […]

    EllyA-F

    November 27, 2017
    Life, Work
    #cfcinderella, #chronicillness, #cinderella, #cysticfibrosis, #disney, #time, #worklife, health, illness, inspiration
  • Sweet love

    Sweet love

    It was late. The lights were dimmed. I stared at him. He stared right back. It was always special, but something felt different tonight. He leaned in and I felt my hands get clammy. Up close his eyes were huge. The blood was rushing to my head, all thoughts gone. The butterflies were dancing. Was […]

    EllyA-F

    September 27, 2017
    Life
    chronic illness, diabetes, hypoglycemia, Life, lovestory, poetry
  • A lesson in vulnerability

    A lesson in vulnerability

    Or, that time I mentioned my wheezy-hamster-lungs in an interview. Unsurprisingly having a life-shortening illness can make you feel a tad vulnerable at times. It can also make you feel like a superhero when you defy the odds. But there’s one context that has always made me feel more vulnerable about having Cystic Fibrosis than […]

    EllyA-F

    August 30, 2017
    Life, Work
    agency life, chronic illness, confidence, cystic fibrosis, health, job interview, Life, Work
  • Health is everything

    Health is everything

    Good health is everything. So some people believe.   As humans  we structure our needs in that well-known colloquialism of ‘[insert life changing challenge e.g. having no job or experiencing a divorce] …but hey at least I have my health’.   I would argue that having no job or experiencing the break up of a […]

    EllyA-F

    July 27, 2017
    Life
    balance, chronic illness, cystic fibrosis, happiness, health, illness, Life
  • An appeal at the eleventh hour

    An appeal at the eleventh hour

    It’s that time of year again. Oh, you thought I meant the election? Well, yes. But it’s also around about the time of year I end up in hospital for a 14 day course of intravenous antibiotics to treat the underlying and continuous infection in my lungs. By Cystic Fibrosis standards this is nothing; it’s […]

    EllyA-F

    June 7, 2017
    Life, Work
    #keepthetoriesout, CF Trust, conservative party, cystic fibrosis, ge2017, jeremy corbyn, labour party, NHS, tactical voting
  • When the brainfog hits you bad; a specialist’s perspective

    When the brainfog hits you bad; a specialist’s perspective

    I would expect, that even if you aren’t a part of the niche, tight-knit community of CF-related diabetics like me*, you will have experienced brain fog at some point in your professional career.  Or cognitive dysfunction, to give it its scientific name. Maybe it was a critical moment, in a big meeting as you pitched […]

    EllyA-F

    May 17, 2017
    Life, Work
    brain fog, cf related diabetes, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, hypo, hypoglycemia, office life, type 1 diabetes, work life
  • Who made my clothes?

    Who made my clothes?

    I recently blogged about my big-deal-but-not-really-a-big-deal decision not to buy any clothes for a year. If I were the kind of person who didn’t like clothes or was not easily swept up in the whispers of commoditized fast fashion that would not be worth telling you about. But I am, or was, that kind of […]

    EllyA-F

    May 14, 2017
    Archive and other writing, Sustainability
    #fashionrevolution, #whomademyclothes, bionicyarn, buyless, clothes, fastfashion, ordinarygirldecidestoshopless, shopping, Sustainability, technology
  • Slowing down fashion: a year-long experiment

    Slowing down fashion: a year-long experiment

    I like clothes. Rather a lot. They’re beautiful, versatile, and help you be anyone you want to be. Or at least, that’s what they whisper at you from the mirror of the dressing room as you try them on. Which is why the conclusion I came to last month, to try not to buy any […]

    EllyA-F

    April 25, 2017
    Archive and other writing, Sustainability
    buy less, clothes, fashion, fashion branding, fast fashion, garment production, inditex, less is more, Patagonia, Sustainability, Zara
  • Sorry but I don’t like your air

    Sorry but I don’t like your air

    I got offered a freelance role recently. Successful agency, a big new business win to work on and, it goes without saying, some financial security. I turned it down. I could almost hear the recruiter thinking when I told her my decision, “is she crazy or just plain stupid?” Of course, she was nothing but pure […]

    EllyA-F

    April 21, 2017
    Work
    advertising, agency life, air pollution, awkwardconversationswithyourrecruiter, cystic fibrosis, london air, marketing, Work
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