Nobody wants to have a long-term illness. Unfortunately, many of us will experience chronic illness during our lives. For example, I have already had a long-term illness for seven years. When the weather is changed, I feel pain from my back to my legs. If I can take medication, I will try them. In fact, I ate lots of medication, but my pain is becoming more severe than before .I couldn’t find any miracles or cures from my GP and medication so that I lost my bearings and fell in my emotional distress often.
One day, Amy, my friend who is working in Chinese community centre- Birmingham. Told me that she had been developing a set of courses to help Chinese with long term illness. There are, hundreds of tips and ideas to help and make life easier and improve the quality, which have been gathered from doctors, health professionals, and more importantly, people who have learned to positively manage their illness in 6 weeks’ courses. Perhaps this sounds great, I decided to try.
When I got into the courses, I didn’t know that they would help me to cope with the chronic illness to live the healthier life and change my life style. I just thought that they were good and might give me a new hope.
I bare the hope and finished the courses. These courses let me understand my disease. This means more than learning about what causes the disease and what can be done for it. It also means observing how the disease and its treatment affect me. This is my story. And you? How can you have a long-term illness and live a healthy life at the same time?
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On November 11th every year, a group of people meet, and ride on the number 11 bus in Birmingham. It’s the circular route, and the man behind the project, Jon Bounds, claims its a great introduction to the “real city”.
For this second part of my journey through the wonders of Birmingham’s football clubs, I have decided to ditch most of the text and concentrate on colour. This is what has come out of it, I hope you enjoy it.
