You know when someone, on your friends list, updates their relationship status online to, “it’s complicated”? Generally, most people frown, but understand, and accept this for what it is. No explanation or definition, of what it means, required. The same can he said for this condition. At it’s very...
Articles with the Tag Cancer
Cancer is not something I want to consider in my life but sometimes, there is no choice…
Surgery..again! It’s just over 3 months since my repeat ETV (brain surgery #6). I stared at a similar photo to the one at the top of this post last week, in my Endocrine surgeon’s waiting room. Having just had a consult with him and agreeing to go ahead with...
Hydrocephalus: Will there ever be a cure?
The number of people undergoing shunt surgery over the last while seems to be on the increase. Maybe I see this because of the number of friend requests and follows I’ve received on Facebook as Skyewaters, who knows. You know what it’s like when you buy a new car,...
Critical illness and disease : The effect of words
Words have the potential to do so much with very little to no effort. I suppose for me it started with the words Hydrocephalus and Brain surgery. My latest diagnoses of Hyperthyroidism comes with the “possibility” of, Heart failure and Cancer. These words somehow have been the cause of much anxiety,...
To my friend who has just been told she has 3 months to live because she has stage 4 ovarian Cancer
“I’m sorry…” seems to be the first words that come to mind. Sorry for so many things because somehow, I just feel this is wrong and unfair. Sorry because you were a little girl that I knew once upon a time, a girl whom I envied and loved because...