Check out my latest post for AccessAble for Children’s Mental Health Week 2024.
In 2021/22 11% of children were living with a disability. I was only 15 months old when I was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis – something many people associate with older people. Since then the diagnoses have kept coming. I now live with an ileostomy due to Crohn’s Disease. I was diagnosed with uveitis at the age of seven and have regular flare-ups. This has left me with little sight in my left eye and is a condition often found in children who have arthritis. I also have Adrenal Insufficiency, which was only diagnosed last year. I had a hip replacement at the age of 23 and my elbows are stuck, permanently bent. Due to the damage caused by arthritis in my right knee, I am unable to kneel on it or bend it too far as it locks.
The Spoonie Mummy 
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