Tonight at 11pm on the Community channel you can see ‘Issues With My Tissues’ a documentary which follows the incredibly brave journey of Lara Bloom, an Ehlers Danlos Syndrome Hypermobility type sufferer, as she attempts to complete the London Marathon. The program also features other people with EDS and their families discussing the many varied problems they […]
Is it too late for New Year’s resolutions? I hope not. If you read my last post ‘Twelve Days of Christmas …in hospital’ you’ll know I have a pretty good excuse. Also by writing these in mid January free from a New Year’s eve hangover and the mindless optimism of the first few days of […]
I have no artistic talent whatsoever, literally none. So when it came to making a header image for this blog I was rather stumped. I wanted to avoid drawing anything, so I bought a toy bendyman on eBay and photographed it in various silly positions which were supposed to show hypermobility. It was a fun idea, […]
Welcome to ‘A Reluctant Contortionist’, a blog about being too bendy. So why am I starting a blog? For a long time now I’ve wanted to do something to help the cause of Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (EDS). But what exactly? I’m not smart enough to find a cure. I have EDS so I can’t run […]