Lorraine Ansell explores why offering solutions to her chronic conditions really isn't helpful. Instead offer sympathy!...
Lorraine Ansell explores grief as part of her chronic condition. Here she highlights several areas from food to friendship that she has had to grieve....
Lorraine Ansell has always struggled with bras and how they cut into her flesh. After 40 years she has a few favourites....
Lorraine Ansell talks about things she no longer does to help manage her hEDS - many things suggested by her medical team...
Lorraine recommends her favourite foot brand for chronic foot pain. She has loved shoes since she was a child and so has done extensive research into the shoes that suit her and her soles and soul best!...
Lorraine Ansell - chronic pain patient talks about Dr Valentina Buscemi and her pain management therapy...
Over the past few years I have been working on learning about my conditions and especially the pain I am in. At my Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome diagnosis the rheumatologist broke the news to me that I was in fact in pain and had been from a young age. But as a human being that doesn’t scream...
Lorraine Ansell takes a look at why Diagnosis is so necessary for those with chronic conditions.She lists five points that are very important....
Bruising is the body's sign that something has happened. In Lorraine's case, bruising happens far too often due to Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome....
The one where Lorraine Ansell finds purpose in her pain. And learns that movement is essential even with a chronic condition....
Lorraine Ansell finds out that having hEDS has given her a chance to look at change a new - the waiting in the wings before real change...
The one where Lorraine has a pain in her head - is it real or not? Find out what the ENT found!...
Lorraine Ansell looks at her life in dance and realises that issues with tissues mean that she has had to change and say goodbye to some of her passions and find new purpose with her pain. Maybe a change of movement and or mindset might be the thing?...