text:  There were days too where climbing the stairs was just really difficult. So rheumatoid arthritis, flares, ebbs and floods, a little like the tide. So some days I could walk further and some days I really couldn't walk too far at all. So it was really tough. But during that time, I started volunteering for a conservation project which monitors the number of dead seabirds that wash up on the beaches in Shetland.