Alice vs her own body - Rounds 1 & 2
A nurse told me recently that it was just as well I have a sense of humour. This was said as she had to make a third attempt at taking blood from my hands, the second attempt hit my bone and I knew if I didn't laugh I would end up letting these things get to me, there would be no point as I have to get this done once a month, every month and this won't ever change. Having a sense of humour is useful, actually it is essential, to get through the day when you have two different auto-immune conditions. For the (luckily) uninitiated, auto-immune conditions are those where your body goes a bit haywire and starts thinking it's own bits are foreign and attacking them, like a mighty war going on inside your body. There is nothing you can do to foresee, prevent or cure this, all you can do is manage it and try to laugh about it. Ding-ding Round 1! The first illness/condition/disease (whichever makes you less squeamish) I was diagnosed with was Oral Crohn's Disease (when