Ren is a talented singer-songwriter and musician from Brighton, England.
He has had ongoing battles with a chronic health problem since the age of 19 and in his own words he can’t really scratch the surface on what it was like to lose his early 20s to debilitating mysterious health problems that left him trapped in his bed with debilitating pain and neurological issues.
He feels like he missed out on so much of what was meant to be the years of his life where one grows up and discover what it means to be an adult.
‘Hi Ren’ is Ren’s newest single, which delivers lyrics that have a raw and emotional intensity to them.
“While friends were starting families, starting careers, socialising, I spent most of it inside the four walls of my bedroom, too tired and weak on most days to leave my bed. In crippling amounts of pain. This wasn’t days or weeks, it was years. By my mid twenties I resigned to the fact I wouldn’t live to see the age of 30.
I spent years trying to get answers, bouncing from doctor to doctor, only for them to scratch their heads and leave me with the diagnosis of M.E. During this time I tried countless medical treatments, and when they failed, resorted to alternative health practitioners, spiritual healing practices, thousands of supplements, but just kept getting sicker and sicker. With each treatment that failed, my hope for a normal life would die a little more.
In 2015 after suffering a huge crash, weighing only 8 stone and going through months of stress induced psychosis, I ended up raising enough money to see a specialist in Brussels, who ran extensive testing and finally diagnosed me with Lyme disease.”
