dissection awareness

Carotid Artery Dissection - Gretchen's Story

To continue my series on Carotid Artery Dissection, Gretchen has kindly offered to tell her story and I was really struck by the message o...

Cliona Kelliher 16 Mar, 2021 2

Carotid Artery Dissection - Helen's Story

This is the second in my carotid artery dissection guest posts and this time I'm very grateful to hear Helen's story. When I embarke...

Cliona Kelliher 24 Oct, 2020

Carotid Artery Dissection, Continuing the Story - Linz's Story

Introduction This is the first of (hopefully!) a few guest posts on the topic of Carotid Artery Dissection. I've documented my own jou...

Cliona Kelliher 14 Oct, 2020 7

Recovery From Trauma - Finding The Way

First of all, I’m clearly not a professional so if you are struggling with mental health issues of any kind, do go talk to your doctor or a ...

Cliona Kelliher 7 Jun, 2019 21

Carotid Artery Dissection - 3 Year Update

It's almost 3 years on from my Carotid Artery Dissection (a tear in the Carotid Artery) and although I've posted at different stag...

Cliona Kelliher 29 Apr, 2018 13

Carotid Artery Dissection - 20 Month Update

So it has been 20 months since my Carotid Artery Dissection and I thought it was time to do an update, especially for the benefit of anyone...

Cliona Kelliher 19 Feb, 2017 10

Carotid Artery Dissection my 10 Month Update

I decided to do a 10 month update of my Carotid Artery Dissection progress. If you are new to my blog you can read about my diagnosis and su...

Cliona Kelliher 17 Apr, 2016 9

Carotid Artery Dissection - Good News for a change

As I've been sharing my Carotid Artery Dissection with you to date (mostly my lows it must be said!), I thought I'd share some po...

Cliona Kelliher 4 Nov, 2015 8

Extreme Fatigue after Carotid Artery Dissection

I was partly inspired to write this after reading a wonderful post by Zoe of   I Believe in Romeo .  The post was entitled Perfection is ...

Cliona Kelliher 21 Oct, 2015 14

Struggles with being ill

This is just a 'me' post. To get the background you need to check out my carotid artery dissection original post. It's now 3...

Cliona Kelliher 5 Jul, 2015 6

Hospital again! (carotid artery dissection) and some garden therapy.

Little did I expect that I'd be writing another hospital related post so soon and couldn't face another gloomy spell so I'm do...

Cliona Kelliher 20 Jun, 2015 20