Heya Aimee,

I wasn’t expecting to come on here and find your post. It was lovely, actually. So thanks!

I’ve been relatively alright. I had a migraine for the last three days - that painkillers won’t help ease. I’ve resorted to hydro-injections just to stop me vomiting. It was really driving me nuts, but now I am getting over it which is good. It means that finally I can catch up on the school work that I missed. Infact, tomorrow I have a wonderful assessment on infectious and non-infectious diseases. I suppose I might just choose CAH and malaria, since I know both of them like the back of my hand.

Apart from stressing over school, I haven’t really had time to think about things that tend to make my mind go loopy. So I am coping well with all the distractions. It’s good infact. I feel like my ’normal’ self, instead of the highly obsessive and mentally and emotionally incapacitated one that I can be.

I had a sort of alright weekend. I ended up going to a CAH family weekend/symposium thingo. It was a lot of parents with younger children with CAH. I was the second oldest CAH patient there and I am only 18. But some of the parents were really nice. They said that it was wonderful seeing an older person with the condition, and that just seeing me there made their day. I felt good to know that me having this (sometimes) really not fun condition, means that I can potentially bring hope for other people! That was the best part of the weekend I think. All the info was boring, plus I knew it already.

I have major assessments coming up, not to mention my ’Undergraduate Medicine Admissions Test’ in July. I am worried that I will stuff that one up. But yeah, I am still here, I just have my head in happier places at the moment.

Thanks for liking my posts. They come from the heart, and I am really glad to know that I am not alone in how I feel sometimes. It is wonderful knowing that when your struggling to get through the really bad days.

Keep smiling

Annalise

P.S. if you ever feel like giving me a buzz, I really don’t mind....my email is anna_bryant89@hotmail.com

Well best be off, I have to write a speech (Yay!)