© Rosie Farrell The couch has become my refuge. I live from hospital appointment to hospital appointment – traveling hours to access healthcare thanks to our broken system. My paint brushes taunt me but I know there’s no energy to pick them up, to push through and do the thing I love most. It’s beenContinueContinue reading “The gift”
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Tread slowly
© Rosie Farrell The words won’t stick. They slide off the page as soon as they land. I’m left wondering what it is I want to say – what it is I need to say. And because I’m not sure, I stop writing and I stop trying to write. For a long time they pooledContinueContinue reading “Tread slowly”
The Art of MS – symptoms under the spotlight
Hand of Fate – my artwork for the exhibition “The paints dance across the page, running into each other in ways you hadn’t planned but looking all the more beautiful for it. It’s like an analogy for life really. No matter what way you plan, life will do its own thing but that doesn’t meanContinueContinue reading “The Art of MS – symptoms under the spotlight”
In it together?
Today is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities and this year it focuses on the leadership and participation of persons with disabilities toward an inclusive, accessible, and sustainable post-COVID-19 world. According to the WHO it’s likely that everyone, yes EVERYONE, will at some point experience a disability of some kind, whether permanent or temporary,ContinueContinue reading “In it together?”
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Welcome to our normal
The theme of this year’s World MS day is connections and could that be any more apt given the current situation? For so many people, Covid-19 has meant a change in the way we live and work. Job losses, reduced hours and working from home. Added financial worries. Loneliness and isolation. A feeling of frustrationContinueContinue reading “Welcome to our normal”
Outshining the pain
You are the first thing I think of in the morning because you are the thing that wakes me in the middle of the night. Pushing through that gap between dusk and dawn. Spotting a weakness in my armour you steal your way in so I always start my day thinking of you, rushing toContinueContinue reading “Outshining the pain”
Fashion is my armour
In an upcoming MS & Me blog for MS Ireland, I talk about what fashion means to me and my identity. You can read the full blog post here. As any of us with a disability know, the fashion and retail industry are paved with issues, from a total lack of accessible clothing to notContinueContinue reading “Fashion is my armour”
Finding my fight
Illustration by Rosie Farrell 2019 has been a funny year and as full as challenges as ever. I can’t help but always recap on my MS journey as the curtains close on another year, and each year I look at its difficulties and vow that the new year will be my year, it’ll be theContinueContinue reading “Finding my fight”
You’ve got the power
Every muscle in my body was screaming. Every little negative voice had creeped in. “I can’t do this,” I cried to Niall, my fiancée, as we struggled up the last hill of the 2015 Dublin half marathon. “Yes you can,” he shouted, reminding me of all I’d been through in the last few months -ContinueContinue reading “You’ve got the power”
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