I was wondering what the collective noun for a group of vitiligo sufferers would be… Would we be called a lesion?!!
Poetry, Humour, Sundry
I re-read one of my favourite pieces of poetry the other day and it struck me that it is every bit as therapeutic as any medicine. Maybe reading it for yourself will be a brand new experience – or maybe you are familiar with its famous words… In which case, I’d […]
Looking at our cat the other day, I realised that we humans are the only species that seem to have a problem with being more than one colour at once!!!
Sorry folks – this video was live when the blog was posted but has since disappeared due to a technical hitch! Rather than try to reinstate it on the page, here is the link to it on YouTube. It is an easy to understand explanation of what is so far […]
_I just found this lovely poem by a young lady called Kimberly on the home page of The American Vitiligo Research Foundation website. I love it… Beautiful I am beautiful You may think I’m different But I am not What people say or do Won’t hurt me And if people […]
Vitiligo For years, longing long years I mourned my smooth, young honey-hued, freckle-filled summers. My tears, pander-eyed tears Trickled down the furtive, long-sleeved, camouflaged decades. I hoped hopeless hopes That the pallid,white-lashed jig-saw stranger in the mirror should leave. My fears, shadowy fears Multiplied, forming stark splashes across the carefree […]