“How are you?” My friends and family ask me regularly. I don’t know what to say. I haven’t given myself a moment to actually contemplate how I feel about any of my current situation. Samuel was admitted to hospital again nearly three weeks ago. He was struggling to breathe and was getting weaker and weaker. […]
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Back in June I wrote a blog on Samuel’s sudden decline in health. But since then, I have remained largely quiet about the details because it has been so intense. The summer has been tough for so many reasons. Since Samuel’s hospitalisation in June, he has been housebound about 85% of the time. He struggles
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Samuel has always been one of my main carers. Since he started taking on that caring role, he has enabled me to live within the boundaries my M.E. has given me. He helped me thrive rather than just survive. But now he is sick, really sick, and it sucks. One of the chapters in my
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I am so unbelievably excited to share with you the news that A Girl Beyond Closed Doors has won The People’s Book Prize for Best Achievement 2024! The Best Achievement award is given each year to the author whose book advances the human condition, benefitting their community, or the world at large in some way.
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To those who have followed my journey for a long time, you will know that I have spent an inordinate amount of time in hospital. As you will read in A Girl in One Room, I really did flit in and out of emergency situations for years. The thing is it was always me who
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The past couple of days haven’t gone to plan. Valentines Day and Samuel was in A&E then yesterday it ended up being me. I’ve had a very sharp stabbing pain in my back which has been making it challenging to take a deep breath and I woke up yesterday morning hardly able to breathe due
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I must be getting older because it feels like the years are passing even more quickly. 2021…where do I even begin? It has been a year of incredible – and very personal – highs mixed in with some lows that threatened to take the stuffing out of me. On a personal level, I moved house
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To all you lovely lot… The wonderful online family of mine, Thank you from the bottom of the heart for the love and support you have all given me this year. I just wanted to share a little picture from today and a little message to wish you all a very merry Christmas. I love
Erm guys guys guys… I did a thing on Tuesday… A big thing… A MASSIVE thing! I had my hair cut and coloured at a salon down the road from me! Party time! I turned 30 this year and it was a pretty momentous occasion for me because there have been so many times where
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Oh my life. It seems somewhat ironic that on the day I was about to finish off my latest blog on being on the other side of an emergency, that I ended up being taken into hospital by ambulance with severe chest pain. It was odd because yesterday the tightness in my chest following a
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