DVLA
All through my health ordeal I remained as strong as I could be. Of course it took a mental toll. My family were dealing with the news in their own way but it caused tensions between my husband and my father, who decided to suddenly take an interest in my well being. It was hard…
The survival note
I wrote the following to share with my husband It’s easier to put in words how I have been feeling. Basically I think I have expended so much mental energy over the last few months, even the last year or more, that I actually don’t feel like I have the energy to live. I have…
Postpartum day 1
I was given my own room as I was on the list of “complex women” who had complex mental health history. During the pregnancy I just about managed to avoid being sectioned. The monitoring from those around me ensured I could stay at home. I stayed one night after baby girl was born as I…
Boy? Girl?
We decided we would go for a private scan as I was becoming overly anxious that I would lose this pregnancy. When we went for the scan it was not quite 20 weeks but to our surprise they said they’d be able to tell us the gender if we wanted to know. We did. As…
GDM and Planned C-section
As with the first pregnancy, I knew that gestational diabetes was very likely to rear its ugly head again. And it did. This time I started testing myself and self diagnosed after high readings. I informed the team and they set me up with the pregnancy diabetes team. This time around I was not so…
Exhaustion
There was something different about this pregnancy. The exhaustion and shortness of breath was greater than I could remember with my first pregnancy. I would sometimes be standing and find I couldn’t catch my breath. One day I was in the kitchen and I had one of these moments where I struggled to breath. My…
Arrival
I started getting contractions a week before the planned c-section that was proposed at 38 weeks. I thought though that these were more likely to be Braxton hicks but not having had experienced them before I couldn’t say for certain. As the days continued, they got worse and more painful and I started to make…
The big C and MG
The following was posted on Facebook to mark the first ever thymic malignancy awareness month. This is my story of how I came to be diagnosed with cancer following the birth of my daughter. Babies are a blessing. My baby daughter is even more so because without her my thymoma would not have been found.…
Slowing down
My husband was worried about the fact my Psychologist had been in touch. He contacted my care coordinator and she started to increase her frequency of visits. Below is an extract taken from the Progress Notes (I requested my medical records this year): — sounded low in mood, speech was slow & processing appeared slow…
Concern and Trust
This is written a year on from the pregnancy. The pregnancy was emotionally and physically demanding. The nausea and exhaustion was on a level that I had not experienced in my previous pregnancy. There was increased concern from my Psychologist that I had been seeing just before my ectopic pregnancy the previous year. One session…
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