It's not been an easy decision, but after weeks of deliberation having booked a short break in October for this coming week, our holiday is being cancelled, postponed for another time.

We’ll book another short break when my health is more reliable and we can all make it. In the meantime, I have decided to take a comprehensive food intolerance test, which will be carried out in the next few days to find out which foods are making my reflux worse.

I am feeling confident the test will go someway towards allowing me to lead a more normal life, so I can do things like go on holiday.

Ilana Estelle is a mental health and wellbeing advocate who combines educational insight with her personal experience of living with physical, mental, and emotional disabilities. She holds diplomas in Counselling, Diet and Nutrition, Nutritional Therapy, Psychotherapy and Counselling, and Stress Management. Through her writing, Ilana supports others in navigating their emotional, mental, and physical health challenges. In addition to writing for The CP Diary, her work has appeared in healthy lifestyle magazines. Ilana is also the author of three books: Cerebral Palsy: A Story – Finding the Calm After the Storm, Spirituality, Healing and Me, and Survival: The Covid Years – Time for Change.

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4 comments on “A holiday cancelled”

  1. Sorry you had to cancel your holiday. Hope the test works well for you and you get some answers that will help you.

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  2. Hopefully you will get away when you are feeling up to it.

    No fun to travel when you are feeling unwell. I do hope you start to feel better soon in the New Year. Remember there will be other times when you can enjoy your family being together.

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