2025 wrap-up – highs and lows

It’s tradition now for me to do a yearly wrap-up post, so here goes.

I had high hopes for 2025. I started it in the most pain I’ve ever experienced after long-awaited essential surgery that I hoped would finally free me from health issues I’d lived with my entire life. 

Unfortunately, life had different plans. Whilst the surgery has improved my quality of life, I went on to spend almost the entire year being ill (covid, then whooping cough for five months, a broken rib, a severe ankle sprain.)

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