Chin up: The story of a metamorphosis CONTENTS

Chin Up is a memoir of my health experiences – what happened to me at the age of 24 and what went wrong over the next 12 years, then the long process of fixing myself and the astonishing things I discovered.

I published it as a series of daily blog posts over a period of two weeks December 2020-January 2021. The first half gives context to what I did and how I find myself where I am now. Thanks for reading! Please do share, and email me if you want to respond.

1. Introduction
2. The doing: MS diagnosis
3. The doing: Interferon beta-1a (Avonex)
4. The doing: Intermittent self-catheterisation
5. The undoing: Avonex – the decision to stop
6. The undoing: Interferon be gone 2013–2015
7. Revelations: It’s not MS
8. Revelations: Fungal overgrowth, blocked lymph, and a busted ankle
9. The undoing: The day-to-day process
10. The undoing: Biomechanical rehabilitation
11. The undoing: Toilet taboos
12. The undoing: Feelings
13. Rewriting the past
14. Moving on
15. Epilogue
16. At war with the fungus Part 1