It’s taken me a long time to go out of the house due to illness and other problems, so it’s not surprising I feel a little dispirited today.

I managed a couple of hours yesterday afternoon; then went out to dinner with family and came back feeling slightly poorly with digestion problems that kept me up for some of the night. I’ve had a blood test done and will find out the results in the next couple of weeks, to see which foods are contributing to my reflux problems.

I’ve clearly still got a long way to go, but feeling optimistic that I should be able to lead a more normal life, once I find out which foods are causing me to struggle with my health.

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 “Moving forward slowly”

  1. I'm glad that your finding out these things. I think it will be extremly helpful to you on your road to normalsey.

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  2. Hopefully you will find the foods that are causing your problems, so that you will be able to avoid them. I wish you to have better health real soon. You deserve it.

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