Shaken

It's been a while since I last checked in here. As I've been wandering the cliffs and headlands on Shetland I've composed (in my head at least) several posts over the summer months - mostly quite angry.  I think the angry posts have been the counter point to the mostly cheerful 'puffins on the cliffs' pictures I post elsewhere. With hindsight, my first reaction to getting The Diagnosis was to run away and pretend it didn't exist - Shetland has been a temporary escape route for the last 13 years and I was assuming that could just continue. But it can't. You can escape from work place stress but a long term (incurable) diagnosis just follows you around. Having toyed with the "ignore it and it'll go away" approach the next option was to curl up in a ball and sit in a corner waiting for the symptoms to get worse. Not an attractive option - which also highlights the challenge of deciding when to start taking the symptom masking medications.  It'...