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alidaggett
2 days ago4 min read
A Dream Honeymoon: Arthritically Navigating New York | PART 2
A magical Christmas ... Day 3: Christmas Eve First things first, Liberty Bagels ! This time, I decided to indulge in one of their liberty...
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alidaggett
Jan 146 min read
A Dream Honeymoon: Arthritically Navigating New York | PART 1
Wrapping off work on Friday and finishing packing that night, we were almost ready to embark off on our dream honeymoon! If you follow my...
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alidaggett
Aug 25, 20243 min read
The Unspoken Truth of Pain
Top and bottom of this post is that pain is a bitch. Life can be a bitch. I’m not here to complain. I want to be able to voice the...
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alidaggett
Jul 12, 20244 min read
In Sickness and in Health
This blog is to share the realities of getting married with a chronic illness. There are so many different angles I could come at this –...
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alidaggett
Apr 6, 20245 min read
A Balancing Act: Juggling Chronic Illness and a Career
It seems like a funny time to be writing this as I haven’t worked for over 4 weeks now. But maybe this is the perfect time and a hell of...
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alidaggett
Mar 21, 20243 min read
Not Just Joints
I haven’t done a blog post in a while. I haven’t had the time to sit down and write one without just wanting to relax or keep myself from...
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alidaggett
Dec 18, 20232 min read
Dancing Feet No More
This blog post really puts an emphasis on what I named the whole thing in the first place: Creaky Joints Under Young Skin. Because...
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alidaggett
Mar 25, 20232 min read
ILLNESS ON ILLNESS
I’ve done a small post on this before. Being poorly whilst having a chronic illness isn’t just straightforward. Having a cold or flu or a...
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alidaggett
Nov 27, 20221 min read
5 YEARS
5 years ago, I was just a uni student thinking I was invincible. 5 years ago, I didn’t think of my ‘dodgy knee’ impacting my whole life....
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alidaggett
Sep 6, 202212 min read
Chronic Illness Life Changes: ‘Little Things' No Longer Exist
As it has been a long time since my last blog post, I will re-introduce myself … I’m Ali, I’m 25, I grew up and still live on a working...
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alidaggett
Mar 11, 20225 min read
WORKING WITH CHRONIC ILLNESS
The motivation for this post is through the struggle that I have had just 2-3 months into a full-time job and the emotional impact of...
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alidaggett
Nov 24, 20211 min read
Grieving For Health
This was me Monday, sat on the stairs at one of my temporary jobs. So scared for not being able to do my dream job. On the verge of...
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alidaggett
Sep 19, 20213 min read
Rheumatoid Arthritis Awareness Week 2021
I am suuuuper late, as always. If you don’t know already, this week is RAAW – Rheumatoid Arthritis Awareness Week 2021. I have just not...
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alidaggett
Aug 7, 20217 min read
Fitness Helping My Sickness
It’s been a while since I have done a blog post about fitness. Actually, it’s been a while since I’ve done a blog post at all!Having said...
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alidaggett
May 23, 20213 min read
FRED’S KETTLEWELL 10K FOR VERSUS ARTHRITIS
I don’t know about you, but for me, there is just something about fundraising that makes me feel whole. And when I see people fundraising...
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alidaggett
May 12, 20214 min read
My Painful Truth
As you may know, May is National Arthritis Awareness Month and this year’s campaign, launched by Versus Arthritis, is The Painful Truth....
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alidaggett
Apr 12, 20213 min read
Sharing my Rheumatologist appointment
To all my amazing readers, This blog post is slightly different as I have covered it on a video but thought I would also type bits out as...
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alidaggett
Mar 28, 20214 min read
End of an era
A fully-fledged physio. I made it. All the hard work has finally paid off. 14 years of school, 5 years of uni and now for the rest of my...
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alidaggett
Feb 27, 20213 min read
Methotrexate Mondays - A catch-up!
It's just another manic Monday I wish it was Sunday 'Cause that's my fun day My I don't have to run day It's just another methotrexate...
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alidaggett
Dec 31, 20202 min read
That’s a wrap!
2020, what a year … one for the history books, which no-one could have predicted. I sincerely hope that each and every one of you has had...
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