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Continue reading →: Corralejo Diaries: Day OneWelcome to the travel diary of a pair of sun-chasing disaster magnets, gallivanting around collecting horrendous viral infections, unexplainable mishaps, and bloodied hotel towels. If there’s bad luck to be had, be it a rogue banana peel, or a tropical flu within a mile radius, it’ll find them.
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Continue reading →: Let’s Talk About BurnoutI’m just going to be open and put my cards on the table, using this as a platform to address something that many of us face but don’t often talk about: Burnout—physically, mentally, and emotionally.
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Continue reading →: Wisdom Teeth Extraction Recovery: Part 2, Nerve DamageAlas, lady luck further abandons me like an apple core thrown from a moving car. I was hopeful that there was some truth to the 3-5 days recovery I’d been quoted. Sadly, things were about to get much, much worse…
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Continue reading →: Dental Surgery Recovery: Part 1, Expectation vs Brutal RealityBrutal. That’s the best way I can describe the fourfold wisdom tooth extraction surgery I recently underwent. Absolutely brutal. I was expecting a short, peaceful recovery. Football Manager, naps on the sofa, Netflix… Easy, right? Oh how wrong I was.
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Continue reading →: The Hardest Thing I’ve Ever Had To Do Is Follow My Daughter’s ExampleRewind three years or so. Poppy, our first daughter, was just one. The NG (nasogastric) tube streams from her nose to her Daddy’s hand, fortified milk flowing with gravity to her tiny stomach. Business as usual. Except it isn’t…
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Continue reading →: Hello, Colin, Today I’m Having Four Teeth Removed (Part 0)I lay on the operating bed and felt the intense ache as the anaesthetic worked it’s way up my arm, managing just enough muscle movement in my other arm to raise a lazy thumbs up to the team of three medical professionals working around me. How did I get here?
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