Today, we were honoured to be invited to speak to a group of theatre nurses who are going to be or have been part of a retrieval team for donor organs. These nurses don’t get to see the whole organ donation story even though they are part of a very important process, so the seminar […]
This morning we got up and out of the house way too early for a Sunday but it was all for a good reason…we were heading into the city to take part in the City2Sea! We paired up with another couple…the guys, both who had PSC and subsequent liver transplants, ran the 5kms…us girls were […]
Our house is still full of coughing, sneezing humans and two furkids who are rather unimpressed with the situation. Thankfully, my sore throat has eased, but now sound like a two pack a day smoker. Strangely, both my husband and I both had the flu injection earlier this year, and we did managed to escape […]
Sorry guys…it’s finally happened…the germs that have been ruling this house for the past week have captured me in their grasp. My husband started to get the sniffles a week ago…now he is sick in bed with a temperature. Trouble with him is that he thinks he is invincible…he survived a life threatening condition and […]
According to the National Carers Week’s website, there are 2.7 million unpaid carers currently here in Australia and this week is Nationals Carers Week (11th – 17th October 2015). I was a full time carer for my husband a few years ago…this is our story… As regular readers will know, my husband had to have […]
All cancer is bad, but ovarian cancer is particularly insidious. This cancer is the growth of malignant cells in one or more ovaries…often with the spread of malignant cells to other organs in the abdominal cavity. Many believe that this cancer will be picked via a pap smear, but the scary fact is that there […]
On this day, just two years ago, I was in hospital, having my thyroid removed due to cancer. I remember it well but can’t complain…my surgery went well, I only had one night in hospital and my recovery was smooth. The worst bit was the sore throat from the breathing tube…I think I consumed my […]
Today, my husband and I returned to a hospital where we used to spend a lot of time…it is where he went to the liver clinic for years, where he had his liver transplant and to which he will remain connected as a patient of for the rest of his life. But today was a […]