Here's the latest update, a chronology sort of blog post. The first section was written in Feb or early March, but before I could publish it, there was a worse period... so now it's complete. The writing is a bit messy with some mixing of tenses due to this, oh well. And it's written on a bit of a lag as ever -- more like 'here's what happened back in March/April'. I've also put up a scrappy blog…
Back in February I collected notes for a new blog post about my thoughts and psychological experience of illness in the last month or two. This was partly about sharing the experience, and partly about getting the same thoughts over and over again out of my head and onto digital paper. The post It s mostly just strange appeared first on AlexMay.co.uk .
I thought it time for another update blog. (Later addition… ah, yes definitely, I started this early November!) This one I’ll be trying to stick to what’s gone on and how the last few months have been, with less of the broader philosophising reflections. Partly to try and keep it concise, partly because there’s not [ ] The post Autumn Update 2025 appeared first on AlexMay.co.uk .
I haven’t been able to keep up with messages and replying to people, or otherwise keeping anyone updated on what’s going on. I haven’t been able to reply to a message for a few months. so instead of trying to catch up on an impossible backlog, I thought I’d write an update blog and circulate it. The post April Update 2025 appeared first on AlexMay.co.uk .
I didn’t die yesterday. This is of course true every day we wake up – but we don’t often think about it. But yesterday I came much closer than usual – how close, I don’t actually know, but close enough for concern and a reminder of mortality and to be grateful for being alive. The post I didn’t die yesterday appeared first on AlexMay.co.uk .
This post is a jumbled mixture of how ill I am, and reflecting on the severity and strangeness of the condition. How Ill I am I have post-acute covid syndrome (aka long covid). At the moment, I can t walk out of the house, have a normal conversation, or sit at a table and eat a [ ] The post (Many people don t realise) How Ill I am appeared first on AlexMay.co.uk .
Around the beginning of December, I started to reflect back on the year. I typically write about it privately, in a blog sort of style. But this time round, I felt I should write it publicly. It also took a bit longer than I had hoped, but, here we are. Structure You might want to [ ] The post 2023+ Reflections: Achievement, Loss, Grief, Acceptance appeared first on AlexMay.co.uk .
In December, after a couple of months of health improvement, I got quite suddenly much worse, ending up severely ill for 5-10 days, feeling like I was more than halfway to dead This blog is about that experience. I am writing this in early January, recovered from the worst of it, though still very limited and fragile. The post My December 2023 Long Covid Experience appeared first on AlexMay.co.uk…
Or: How training parkour has helped me manage being crippled Our entire existence is movement, in one form or another. Yet most of it is unconscious, without attention, just happening as our routine patterns. But how about if we treated the everyday as a movement practice? Recording: I recorded this post so that if you [ ] The post Everyday Life as Movement Practice appeared first on AlexMay.co.uk…
Content note: talks about death, disability, chronic illness, exercise and fitness I thought I would write a blog post about my experience with Long Covid, which is still debilitating and significantly affecting my life 8 months after infection. I *think* I am still gradually and slowly improving, though it may also have reached a plateau [ ] The post My Current Experience with Long Covid, 8…