Follow Matt’s Mitochondrial Disease Experience from childhood to early symptoms, a wrong diagnosis, his life and interests, his Mitochondrial Disease diagnosis, and its biggest disruption, deafness.
1986 – 1998 12 Years Before Mito
1998 – 2001 Delayed Onset Dystonia
2001 – 2004 Early Teen Years
2004 – 2006 Liberation
2006 – 2009 London and The National
2009 – 2011 The Mitochondrial Disease Diagnosis
2011 – 2013 Up North And Unemployed
2014 – 2018 Mito And Stress Doesn’t Work
2019 – 2022 Mito And Lockdown
2022 Mito Broke My Body
2023 Deaf In Two Weeks
2024 My first visit to Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge
2024 January
2024 February
2024 The Ballad of Me and My Brain
2024 March
2024 April First Holiday As A Deaf Person
2024 April
Beta-Oxidation Defects can happen in most cells in our body and symptoms range from mild to fatal.
OCD is a mental health condition that can impact they way somebody lives and behaves.
Mitochondrial Disease is an umbrella term for thousands of rare disorders, here is a few of them.
February felt like a long month, filled with booze, a gig in Manchester and hospital in Newcastle.
The 1975 Still.. At Their Vest Best in Manchester
It is easy to feel invisible when people don’t want to hear from you.