I’ve started thinking there’s no point in fighting with the doctors I’ve dealt with (for now anyway). No matter how convinced I was at the time of seeking help again since 2015 that there was a problem, it’s beside the point right now. Truth be told, after the series of consults that followed, I became…
This morning I woke up at 4 am with the start of an excruciating episode of stomach pain (only too familiar to me). I lay waiting to see if it would escalate while praying that it wouldn’t. However, that was a futile prayer because sure enough, it was one for the mother load of episodes….
Yes, you read that right. My colleague and friend, Gaurav Sharma, utters these words on a regular basis. We’d catch the train together some mornings and “complain” about work or a particular situation (As one does from time to time). After getting it all out, he would usually end the conversation with a shrug of…
When I was diagnosed with Hydrocephalus, my husband and I had a pre-op consult with the surgeon, who discussed my upcoming shunt surgery. We talked about what to expect before, during and after the operation. More importantly, we told him that we were planning on having another baby and questioned whether this would be a…
There are times when I go through some of the various posts on Facebook and can’t help but feel my tummy flip or cringe at what some people say to others. This happens on various posts and it doesn’t necessarily have to be only in the Hydro groups. But, I’m writing this today with those…
There’s something I’ve always read and seen but never fully paid attention to. When we die, we leave this world just as we came into it, with nothing. All our possessions and wealth, no matter how big or small will be left behind. As a human race, we seem to be constantly wanting more wealth,…
I mean all consuming…thought, word and deed? In all honesty, if I had to answer that for myself, I would have to give it a BIG YES!. There are days when I tell myself just to let it all be and carry on as if nothing is wrong. This would actually be easy enough to…
Have you ever looked at the next person, listened to their story and thought “Damn, I thought my situation was bad…“? Well…I have in more ways than one and on more than one occasion too. As an example, last year, a friend of mine was diagnosed with Cancer. Since I don’t live in the same…
Depression is a curse and in some instances, sadly fatal but it doesn’t have to be. It can be very debilitating and make you feel like you’ve been severed at the limbs (with a blunt object), from the minds perspective. It’s easy, in this frame of mind, to believe that there is no hope, no…
A little while ago, I was asked by Anna Adams of the Rolling With Spina Bifida FB page, to write a story about my life with a disability for their website. Reading her request, made me sit back and think about it for a long while, having been caught off-guard. I have no problem writing about Hydrocephalus and how…
