Five Things about living with illness.

Five Things is a collection of the five things our collaborators want you to know about life, death and everything in between. Over the next few months, we’ll be covering illness, dying, death, funerals, grief, heartache, adversity and many other topics.

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The #FiveThings lists will be posted regularly on the Life. Death. Whatever. social media channels. Follow us to stay up to date.

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Five Things I've learned since becoming disabled with a deteriorating condition, by Jan Eversfield.

Jan lives with severe symptoms and significant disability.

Five Things I've learnt about advanced care planning from living with a progressing neurological disability, by Jan Eversfield.

Jan lives with Chiari Malformation Syndrome.

Five Things I've learned since I tested gene positive for Huntington's Disease, by Kate Key.

Kate tested gene-positive for Huntington's Disease in 2013, after her mum was diagnosed in 2012.

Five Things I’ve learned through caring for my dad, who is terminally ill with ALS, by Mitzi.

Mitzi is the primary caregiver to her father, who lives with ALS.

Five Things I’ve learned since being diagnosed with a progressive lifelong illness, by Jamie Birch.

Jamie lives with psoriatic arthritis, a progressive lifelong illness.

Five Things we're learnt since our son had a liver transplant, by the Maceachen family.

After being diagnosed with the liver disease Biliary Atresia at just nine weeks old, Harry Maceachen has had two liver transplants.

Five Things I have learned from my stem cell transplant, by Katherine Murray.

Katherine was training to be an ENT surgeon when she was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia in November 2018. She had a stem cell transplant in May 2019.

Five Things I’ve learned about looking after people with inherited cardiac conditions, by Molly Case.

Molly is a spoken word artist, writer and nurse. She currently works in London as a cardiac nurse specialist.

Five Things they don’t tell you when your wife is diagnosed with cancer by Chris Willis-Baugh.

You can follow Chris on Instagram, where he shares relief, aid, tips and tricks with other husbands, who like him, had absolutely NO IDEA what to do when told their wife has cancer.

Five terminal illness perks no one tells you the day you’re diagnosed by Kris Hallenga.

Kris Hallenga was diagnosed with secondary breast cancer at the age of 23. After finding a lump at 22, living abroad in China for eight months and eventually visiting her doctor three times, Kris was told the news that she had incurable breast cancer. She founded CoppaFeel, the first breast cancer charity in the UK to solely create awareness amongst young people, with the aim of instilling the knowledge and tools they need to get to know their bodies.

Five Things about illness

Five Things about living with illness.