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Tessa Tangent
I write and I often go off at tangents in speech. Tessa Tangent's my nickname and, at home, I'm called Tessa more than I am my real name, Heather. In the 90s, I had short stories published in magazines like Ludus and For Women. I received acceptance slips from Pat Heard asking me to submit more. I also won a cherished second prize in a BBC travel writing competition, was the writer of a newsletter for a dry ski slope and had a newspaper article about the slope published, amongst other small writerly triumphs. Then something stopped me from writing...
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Tag Archives: scarring
The Bunion Bugle: Stage Six
The Darco Nightmare, Jimmy Choo Fantasy And The Ethel Reality Day 40: What with scabs and dry skin falling off (and big toenail refusing to grow much at all) and Bio Oil rubbings and foot-elevation (yep, still), this bunion op … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Relationships, The Bunion Bugle: Stages Through Surgery, Uncategorized
Tagged amazon, bunion, bunion surgery, bunions, cabin fever, Care UK, Darco shoe, disabled, elderly, Ethel, exercise, fear, foot surgery, Husband, injured, Jimmy Choo, novel, operation, Other Half, pain, recovery, rehabilitation, scarring, shoe, shoes, stir crazy, supermarkets, surgeon, Tesco, WIP, writing
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The Bunion Bugle: Stage Five
Foot? What Foot? I’m Starring In Misery, Here! Day 28 If you’ve been following my adventures with bunion surgery to this point, you deserve a Dedicated Reader Award. It’s all been somewhat ewww and gross, even for me and I’m writing this … Continue reading
Posted in Families, Health, Relationships, The Bunion Bugle: Stages Through Surgery, Uncategorized
Tagged bathing, bunion, bunion surgery, bunions, cabin fever, Darco shoe, dressings, exercise, foot surgery, Gratitude, humour, Husband, incarceration, Misery, Olympics, osteotomy, pain, pain relief, Paralympics, patience, patient, rehabilitation, scarring, stiffness, stir crazy, swollen toes, taking things for granted, tolerance, walking with crutches
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