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Continue reading →: Under Construction: Our Home Extension & RenovationWe bought our “forever home” in 2019. By the end of that same day, Emma had given birth prematurely, our lives had completely changed, and the years ahead would bring disability, lockdowns, wheelchairs, chronic illness, and eventually the realisation that our house no longer worked for the family living inside…
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Continue reading →: 10 Days of Pain: Part 5 – But where do we go from here?After nerve blocks failed, pain escalated, and I collapsed in hospital again, I was left with questions rather than answers. But there is hope, dark humour, and full body drug infusions. This is the final part of my 10 Days of Pain blog series.
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Continue reading →: 10 Days of Pain: Part 4 — Dr Pain & The Ward of Strange GentlemanDay Four, or maybe Five. Still in hospital. Still in pain. A nurse starts my morning by screaming at me. The lights switch on and my face immediately files a complaint. Grandad is screaming in his sleep again, Richard is crop-dusting the ward at 1mph, and a man calling himself…
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Continue reading →: 10 Days of Pain: Part 3 – I Can’t SleepIt’s the middle of the night again and I’m lying here wide awake, jaw throbbing, wondering why the hell pain has decided to take up a full-time residency in my face. Codeine is somewhere doing laps before it remembers I exist. Meanwhile the guy in the next bay is snoring…
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Continue reading →: We just took out Poppy’s feeding tube!For 6 years, our beautiful daughter Poppy has had a nasogastric feeding tube. Six years. And today, it’s gone.
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Continue reading →: 10 Days of Pain: Part 2 – Open Wide!Morphine, too many needles and a fart that changed everything. I laughed. I cried… Mostly cried. 10 Days in Hospital with Trigeminal Pain: Part 2 – Open Wide & Pray for Positivity.
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Continue reading →: 10 Days of Pain: Part 1 – There’s Nothing We Can Do To Fix ThisIn one moment, my world changed forever. What began as a bad pain day ended with me collapsing in A&E, diagnosed with a chronic condition that would alter every part of my life. This is Part 1 of 10 Days of Pain, my brutally honest journey through hospital corridors, misdiagnoses,…
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Continue reading →: 45 Minutes Inside a Giant MagnetThe soundtrack to my week was pure chaos. Part industrial techno, part heavy metal, like someone had locked a DJ inside a toolbox, and fed them exclusively red bull. I finally had my MRI scan, the long-awaited next step in the saga of “what the hell is wrong with my…
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