Episode 9 – One Percent
Debbie and Katy explore body image, who inspires us, book we have read and importance of support networks.
Episode 8 – Q&A II
Debbie and Katy cover your questions, in the second Inflammatory! Q&A episode
Episode 7 – From redundancy to routine
Debbie and Katy, or Lara and Donkey, explore the realities of working life whilst living with inflammatory arthritis.
Debbie’s Personal Journey – Part 4 Where I am now
It is strange what having inflammatory arthritis does to you. The fluctuating nature of the disease is very much reflected in my life. There are times when I hate it, cry, and want to scream into a pillow. I have learnt it is OK to feel like this, it is normal, but it is how […]
Debbie’s Personal Journey – Part 3 Curveballs & a puppy!
Life on the whole was pretty good, I had given up my career to bring up my daughters. I loved picking them up from school everyday, taking them to all their clubs, parties. They had a much better social life than I did. I learnt to cope with the ups and downs of living with […]
Debbie’s Personal Journey – Part 2 How uni changed my life
Throughout the rest of my childhood many more joints were affected, both knees, hips, jaw and ankles. I was still given the same advice from doctors I just had to deal with it and get on with it. I did see an adult rheumatologist who had an interest in children. I remember feeling so uncomfortable […]
Debbie’s Personal Journey – Part 1 My childhood
I cannot remember a time when juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) was not a part of my life. It took many years to get a diagnosis, I was eventually diagnosed when I was eight years old and still affects me to this day. Throughout the years I have learnt how to live with it, I cannot […]
