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I managed to get a bargain on Ebay a Lensbaby Muse for £40 there was some missing apertures but considering the lens is normally about the £160 mark I was thrilled with my bargain. This is what I call distraction therapy from pain and can't wait to get a bit more adventurous. This is one of a few trial shots before my camera battery dies of the tree over my fence, just to make sure the lens is working properly, and by the looks of things I've managed to operate it quite well. It's a tricky little thing to get used to, I found I was really pressing the back of the camera against my nose to keep the focus once I'd squeezed the lens. Next time anyone sees me my nose will be turning a corner. The side effects of creative photography aye!

Thanks to HarlingDarling for a great article about chronic pain, from that I've found a book written by the same person 'Julia Buckley' and is now next on my reading list. Here's the excerpt...

Julia Buckley needs a miracle. Like a third of the UK population, she has a chronic pain condition. According to her doctors, it can't be cured. She doesn't believe them. She does believe in miracles, though. It's just a question of tracking one down.

Julia's search for a cure takes her on a global quest, exploring the boundaries between science, psychology and faith with practitioners on the fringes of conventional, traditional and alternative medicine. From neuroplastic brain rewiring in San Francisco to medical marijuana in Colorado, Haitian vodou rituals to Brazilian 'spiritual surgery', she's willing to try anything. Can miracles happen? And more importantly, what happens next if they do?

Raising vital questions about the modern medical system, this is also a story about identity in a system historically skewed against 'hysterical' female patients, and the struggle to retain a sense of self under the medical gaze. Heal Me explains why modern medicine's current approach to chronic pain is failing patients. It explores the importance of faith, hope and cynicism, and examines our relationships with our doctors, our beliefs and ourselves.