I love and am fascinated by body-mods of all kinds but am still relatively vanilla. [6 ear piercings [8mm, 4mm, 2mm], retired VCH, 10 tattoos].
I've just finished my degree, gonna go train to be a teacher. Maybe eventually slide back into the Arts or drift into medical research.br>
I'm obsessively audiophillic, I cannot get through a day without my music.
I'm neither pretty nor interesting - but at least I know it.
Live your life by the eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt think for yourselves.
Handtapped dotwork to celebrate getting my degree
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#10 - handtapped dotwork: on the day i got my degree
Long time no see...
2008/06/18 16:26 I've been gone a long time, but now I'm back! and actually with stuff to add as well!
first, some seriousness:
I got sick when I was fifteen. I was actually sick before then, but it had crept up so slowly i hadn't really realised. After menningitis it all got a whole lot worse and stayed that way.
I was told there was nothing wrong with me, despite being in serious and prolonged pain all the time. Then, eventually, after I was told "you have all the symptoms of a brain tumour, but it's okay, you probably don't have one because you'd be dead by now if you did" they started to test me.
Finally, after eighteen months of testing, I was diagnosed with Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension. It's treatable, but incurable, and I'll be in pain for the rest of my life. They told me that I probably would never make it through my A levels, and that I should forget my plans of degrees and masters and set my sights to 'more realistic' targets.
Fuck that.
I started fighting through the headaches and the nausea and the shaking and the seizures and the slow deterioration of my eyesight and I completed my A levels, and then I went to uni and started fighting there too. And sure, it was hard; I even had to repeat a year after my doctors sent me home, saying i was too ill to be on the course. But I made it.
Last monday I got confirmation of my degree in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Durham, UK. I'm now officially BSc (Hons) (Dunelm).
And y'know, all that effort and fighting, all the hours of lying in a dark room rocking to stave off the pain, all the times they pushed seven inch needles into my spine, or drew vial after vial of blood, all the times I spent throwing up after starting yet another drug treatment and all the times I stayed up all night to get work done, even though I knew I'd be in pain the next day - suddenly it was all fucking worth it.
Now I've been accepted onto a postgrad course and come September, I'm going to start my Masters in Education and begin training to be a teacher, like I always wanted.
To the disease that nearly took my life away, and to all the people who told me to take it easy on myself and stop trying: fuck you. You can't stop me doing anything.
And to celebrate, I got me some ink. All handtapped dotwork. It's fucking gorgeous and I can't stop smiling every time I catch sight of it.
"damn them and their... themness!"
2007/08/17 00:21 i got back from eastbourne. talk about super sunny!
2007/08/08 22:33 going to eastbourne in.... 11 hours.
really should start packing...
got an actual paycheck last week! so i'm officially no longer a volunteer, but an employee. money feels good!shame the ATM ate my cashcard.
my phone's died too! bad times. but it's nearly lauratime! good times.
i found my 18th-birthday photos!
2007/07/28 00:51 so yeah, it was three years ago, but dammit, this is still the best picture of me. Took me ages to convince the bloody photographer to put my tattoo on show, and he still wouldn't let me show my stretched ears. grrr..
nice photo though.
