Just a quick note – I have chronic relentless pain from my brachial plexus injury and between February – May I have been trialling various different hardcore drugs (prescription, I hasten to add!) but unfortunately all they did was make my pain much worse (from a 7-8/10 to 9+, all day every day). As you might expect, this has made completing uni work pretty difficult, so my carefully concocted plan for weekly updates for this blog has crashed & burned spectacularly. I have attended lectures & done as much of the readings as I can, it’s just the blog updating I’m behind on. Luckily my uni is very understanding & has given me time to catch up, but now you know why things might be a little out of chronological order and why there’s an enormous gap in entries.