As I have written before on this blog, cancer has always scared the living bejeezes out of me…I have met it personally in it’s least aggressive form, and thankfully was able to quickly removed it’s presence via surgery. My life then continued on as normal…but so many of our family and friends have been not […]
It’s amazing how time can change your view on things…this time exactly two years ago, we were just about to start a new chapter in our new house…everything was looking great after a stressful few years with my husband’s health issues. But life threw us another curve ball…after a check up at my doctor’s, we […]
Julia Watson is a wife and a mother of four beautiful girls…and she has terminal cancer. Diagnosed in December 2013 with stage 4 terminal bowel and liver cancer, Julia has written Breakfast, School Run, Chemo about her experiences since that fateful day. If I am honest, this book scares me in that I too always […]
Yesterday, another chapter in our lives closed…my husband played at his last brass band competition as he is going to take some time off. Brass bands have been a part of our lives forever…we actually met through being in the same band. He was…and still is…a top cornet player and conductor who had grown up […]
It does worry me that if my husband was involved in an accident, or needed urgent medical attention and I wasn’t with him, how would the medics know that he has had a liver transplant and what medication he is on? He does wear a medic alert disc around his neck, but if that is […]
I have put on weight…not much, just 4kgs…but it’s worrying me. I know many people struggle with their weight, and have much more to worry about then me, but it seems whenever my weight changes, it signals that something is not right. I lost a heap of weight before we realised that I was severely […]
Facebook has a feature that reminds you of past events that you have posted about, and today, it reminded us of a day that was one of the most stressful in my husband’s liver transplant journey. It was the day we experienced what is known as a dummy run…it occurs when you get called into […]
This week is DonateLife Week 2015, and has been all about raising awareness about organ and tissue donation. So for this week’s My Friday Five, I am giving five reasons why you should be a registered organ donor. Be a Super Hero! One organ and tissue donor can transform the lives of 10 or more […]