I’m not the kind of person who likes being told what to do. In fact, the more independent and self-sufficient I am, the better. My family know, despite their protests or advice when it comes to the way something needs to be done, I’ll still do what and how I want to. I’m stubborn like…
Mothers day brings with it so many thoughts. Mostly there’s a feeling of thankfulness and appreciation. Last year I focussed on mothers of Hydro babies who go above and beyond the calling. This year, I turn the focus inward in the hope that I am not alone in any of it. I am by no…
Wherever I was in my life when you appeared (like a phantom) on the scene, doesn’t even matter anymore. Whatever was going on, whatever I regarded as important at the time…overtaken by the enormity of you. You threw me for a loop and left me spinning aimlessly, wandering on the playing fields of this thing…
I didn’t actually mean that literally 🙂 I just finished reading “Do no harm” by Henry Marsh a little while back. A book, written from the perspective and view of a Neurosurgeon providing some insight to its reader, on what its like to be on the other side. Something attracted me to this particular book to…
A question asked so often, it seems, by doctors. Is this a standard question? Maybe I’m missing something… It’s definitely one that, once asked, gets my back up. Inside, I cringe in anticipation…I take momentary offence and at some stage feel wounded with the knowledge of having been here before. A De Ja Vu moment of…
I find this line applicable to so many areas of my life. Experience truly does come with time (and age). No matter how much someone forewarns you or tells you about the possible outcomes for any given situation, we all learn from experience. It’ll be a positive or (in most cases) a negative outcome, that…
I had a chat with an acquaintance of mine not too long ago. We have one thing in common, but for different reasons, we’ve both had brain surgery. Therefore, it would set us apart from the rest of the “normal” people around us. We both don’t handle noise very well and therefore dislike an open…
Anything which harms or penetrates the physical matter inside your head would constitute as a cause of brain injury. It can be caused by blunt force trauma to the head, something which doesn’t physically touch the brain itself but a blow to the head, hard enough to cause damage. Or, it can be an act…
Surgery, especially brain surgery, has always left me feeling extreme depression afterwards. It’s not something I can pinpoint (when trying to find a reason for the way I’m feeling) or even recognise when it hits me at first. I’ve often wondered if the anaesthetic has something to do with it… In my mind, I’ve only…
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, for example. The minute you get…
