Our shelves are bursting with “I am a victim off…” stories. These stories are important. They let the author tell their own story and they let us, vicariously, live it too. We seem, though, to have blurred the lines between what is entertaining/educational and what is instruction.
Read MoreHere are the details for Joshua’s memorial.
Read More“There’s a elephant sitting on my chest.” My words feel rushed and tangled. My tongue trips over the simplest of phrases. I’m having difficulty keeping the volume of my voice even.
Read MoreWhite hot, blistering rage charges through my blood vessels. It crystallises into glass-edged, diamond-hard glistening shards that leave my legs hot and anxious and restless. Air expands in my chest. I am puffed out and breathless at once. I lurch from my bed and twitch open the curtain.
Read MoreHere is the list of things on Joshua’s Christmas wish-list that I can fulfil A cookery book....
Read MoreI have an extra-ordinary child. He is bright beyond measure, he’s brave, and forthright and determined and has “good attitude” in bucket loads. He inspires so many people, including me.
I wish he didn’t.
Read MoreNovember has been a tricky month in Cancerland. If this was a movie we’d be in the part where the tension is mounting.
Read More“Why don’t we just tell them the truth?” Asked the intern…
Read MoreThe ceiling of the meeting room is low and, although its adequate, I can’t help wishing the lights...
Read MoreOn Thursday 19 October I was invited to share a little about our journey at the Reach For a Dream Foundation donor breakfast – here’s what I told them….
Read MoreI wonder what it must take to wake up each day knowing that the odds are against you. That you will fail. And fail in a way where lives will be lost? What must it be like to spend your days with people who are in pain? Who are scared? Who are at their worst? Who are filled with the anguish and anger and blame of facing their mortality? What must it be like to know all this and to do the job anyway?
Read MoreAcute fatigue – sleeping for most of the day – is the most common symptom of end stage cholangiocarcinoma.
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