by Verite Reily Collins | Mar 29, 2022 | Tips & Tricks
For anyone suffering fatigue, the video has ideas on living better with this problem This video was developed by the Aussies for those of us with polio – but it has pointers to help understand fatigue, whether it comes from cancer, long- covid or...
by Verite Reily Collins | Mar 29, 2022 | Diary Archive
During treatment, I was told about support groups but thought these were for others. Used to raising funds for them, I just thought they weren’t meant for me – until someone pointed out what an idiot I was, and sent me off to experience for myself what...
by Verite Reily Collins | Feb 21, 2022 | Exercising
Exercise keeps us healthy – and Social Prescribing could help Social Prescribing is the new buzz-word going the NHS rounds, and your Surgery should have been inundated with advice on how to offer this. Your GP can now “prescribe” exercise and even subsidized Gym...
by Verite Reily Collins | Feb 20, 2022 | Skin Problems
Today’s drugs can cause skin problems Todays medical treatments often use strong drugs, which can leave patients with itchy peeling skin, similar to the left side of this image; We all want skin looking like the ‘nice’ side, but anyone whose skin...
by Verite Reily Collins | Feb 19, 2022 | Websites
Jonathan Van Tam recommends an American website – here are others Britain may have set up the World Wide Web – but it has taken Americans to show us the best use of the web for the benefit of cancer survivors. We all get information about UK websites,...
by Verite Reily Collins | Feb 11, 2022 | Nutrition, Food & Exercise
Entertaining made easy With Easter comng up, and warmer weather making it fun to eat outside, I look for easy recipes that work indoors or out. I used to love entertaining but now find it difficult to lift heavy pans and dishes. However, for Easter, I’ve...
by Verite Reily Collins | Feb 9, 2022 | Tips & Tricks
The Institute of Employment Studies and Working With Cancer recently published new research revealing the majority of working-age cancer patients say that the mental health impact of their treatment is greater than the physical impact. Apparently, most of us feel...
by Verite Reily Collins | Feb 2, 2022 | NHS
Some things got better during Lockdown During Lockdown, many Consultants and Nurses were ‘abandoned’ by their hospital admin teams, and left to get on with running their own departments, without the heavy hand of bureaucracy – and didn’t they...
by Verite Reily Collins | Jan 28, 2022 | Nutrition, Food & Exercise
Climatarianism I found this word in one of the Sunday supplements; apparently, it means ‘eating seasonally, shopping locally, limiting food waste and avoiding plastic packaging. So now you know, if you think like me, there is a name for us! There are lots of...
by Verite Reily Collins | Jan 6, 2022 | News
People’s COVID enquiry The People’s Covid Inquiry, organised by Keep Our NHS Public, presents their finished report. Last February, in the absence of a formal public inquiry into the pandemic, the Inquiry, chaired by the human rights barrister Michael Mansfield...
