In September 2015, I was in hospital after a traumatic child-birth experience. I'd been in ICU for ten days and I was weak. A lovely nurse walked in, put a tube in my vein and pumped human blood into my arm. I felt a million times better. Getting blood was lik[...]
In September, after a number of complications, I woke up as an Ostomate. If you don't know what an Ostomate is, don't worry, neither did I till I was one. (Catch up on that story here) Ostomate, noun The definition of an ostomate is a person who has undergon[...]
So the last 7 months have been a roller-coaster of every kind of emotion. If you follow my blog, you know the story. If not, in summary, I had a baby in September and then had a whole lot of surgery after that, a stint in ICU and a little near death experience[...]
A little while ago, a broken and damaged woman, newly a mother, newly without an appendix lay in a hospital bed in a tiny part of town. The news - we're going to go back in. "In where?" you might ask, into the cavity of my body. The one they just took my son o[...]