An excerpt from Chapter 4 of 50 Years of Hard Road by Nick Charles MBE. I considered my predicament from every angle following my meeting with the fish man. I walked for miles around the crowded streets of London, looking at various shop windows and sniffing hungrily at the different…
Chronic fatigue syndrome is a disorder of someone feeling extreme tiredness or fatigue that cannot be explained entirely by an essential medical condition. CFS is also called SEID (systemic exertion intolerance disease) or ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis). This complicated disorder worsens with mental or physical activity but does not go away…
Are you looking for the perfect Christmas gift for the Brentford fan in your life? Then here are two books that will have them writing their Boxing Day thank you letters, pronto. Just a Bus Stop in Hounslow: Brentford FC’s 2021/22 Season in The Premier League Looking back, the 2020/21…
An excerpt from Master Your Chronic Pain: A Practical Guide by Dr Nicola Sherlock Turning Up and Down the Pain Volume Dial Scientists can be heard saying that ‘our nervous system is plastic’, by which they mean that it can adapt and change. This ‘neuroplasticity’ is illustrated when a person…
An excerpt from Chapter 6 of 50 Years of Hard Road by Nick Charles MBE. I cannot begin to imagine what modern-day health and hygiene inspectors would have made of the many hostels I frequented. However, to people like me, they were an absolute godsend. Street people typically take a…
Chronic or Persistent Pain Chronic and persistent pain are both medical terms, and they essentially mean the same thing. When I started my career, chronic pain was the term that was most commonly used by clinicians to describe pain that went on for a long period of time. More recently,…
Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and harder to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden.C. S. Lewis A book on pain management would not be complete without a chapter on mood management. Most of my patients have told…
The Homemaker Let’s use Michelle’s experience as an example. Since she developed her pain, some of Michelle’s rules had become very problematic for her – they no longer added value to her life. Michelle had a rule that her home must be clean and tidy at all times. She also…
An excerpt from Chapter 9 - Darlings of the Psychedelic Underground - from Thinking About Tomorrow – Excerpts from the life of Keith West While Tomorrow would eventually hitch themselves firmly to the counter-culture and psychedelic bandwagon, it’s important to recognise that, as 1966 came to an end, this was…
Chapter 13 from Champions Again: The Story of Liverpool’s 30-Year Wait for the Title by Ian Carroll On the 11th of May, 1996, Liverpool travelled to Wembley to face Man Utd in the FA Cup final. I was there. I travelled down to London with my mate Hero in the…