Writer. Mother. Living with trigeminal neuralgia, polycystic ovaries and a rare eye disease.
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I'm not going to keep this blog post impartial. The PIP benefit system is not fit for purpose, the DWP and courts are uneducated and biased, working on their own ideas of what disability and independence should look like and we need to keep applying and speaking up as loudly as we can to stop people living with TN being turned down for benefits they need.
Sometimes, it can look like the person who looks like they have it all and that they're managing okay.
Almost 70 thousand people know the most intimate corners of my medical history.
I'm hoping in another four years, I'll look back and I'll be where I am today regarding my facial pain: comfortable in my capabilities and confident in my requirements, with an ability to stand up for myself.
My face always feels like I have something crawling on it and I don't often get a break from it.
I have faked being healthy, sometimes unsuccessfully, but usually pretty well, for the last seven and a half years.
The Pain Corner 