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28 August 2019
A Family Reunion
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"Find your tribe", it's the advice I give the many parents of children with additional needs who contact me. It doesn...
13 September 2018
Now we are four
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"a third of our family has gone..." My eldest son has aspergers. His directness and honesty can be bluntly refreshing. It'...
5 July 2018
Happy Birthday you imperfect, beautiful thing #NHS70
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Happy 70th Birthday to the NHS. To me you are like a favourite aunt, cantankerous, imperfect but full of love and always there when you ne...
27 April 2018
It's never about giving up
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Palliative Care. It's been in the news a lot this week. And as I've seen yet another case of a child who needs a referral to pallia...
23 January 2018
Set adrift
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I'm in a no-man's land at the moment. Set adrift from a place I once knew. It wasn't perfect, but I was easy in it's famil...
10 December 2017
Deck the halls
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It was always our rule to wait until 12th December to put our Christmas decorations up in our family. That's my dad's birthday. Ev...
14 November 2017
Always on a Friday evening.....
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I had a dream the other night, it's one I have quite a lot . The one where I am on my own at home, doing Daisy's IVs late at night ...
24 September 2017
Be careful what you wish for
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Christmas. For Daisy this was the most important time of the year (closely followed by her birthday, and then everyone else's birthdays...
18 September 2017
An anniversary gift to Andy
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The best piece of advice I have ever been given was by a colleague when I was working at Hewlett Packard. I really wanted a global role and...
28 March 2017
I have written a book
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"You should write a book" I've lost count of the number of people who have said that to me over the years. So I did. h...
27 February 2017
The long goodbye
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We took Daisy back to school for her funeral, one last trip to the school she loved and had attended from the age of three. I wanted to hid...
12 February 2017
Coming to terms with it all
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It's so hard to believe that Daisy has gone, that we will not see her any more, that I won't hear her call out "mummyyyyy!!!!!!...
4 October 2016
We are a family, not a cost
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Sometimes it feels like I'm a character in some Orwellian nightmare. Not because of losing Andy or because of any of the children's...
11 May 2016
Talking about it doesn't mean it's about to happen
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I know I talk about death a lot in this blog, but everyone who knows me personally also knows that I am the most optimistic, positive person...
3 May 2016
London Marathon 2016: Job done.
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2016 London Marathon done, not a personal best time but pretty decent at 04:24 given everything else I have had on my plate..... ...
20 April 2016
It's only been 4 months
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It's only been 4 months. 4 months since I last held Andy's hand, 4 months since he was in this house. In the days and weeks afterwa...
24 March 2016
It's about time we stopped treating disability issues as an afterthought
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A couple of weeks ago I decided to take Daisy to an inclusive Dance & Singing workshop at the Royal Festival Hall on the Southbank in Lo...
22 March 2016
22nd March 2016
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Today I was supposed to be in Brussels. Today was supposed to be a day just for me, a first chance to get away with a friend and have time ...
14 March 2016
Memories, milestones & wishing time would stand still
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So we're mid way through March, spring is definitely here in London. Yesterday I did a 20 mile training run in preparation for the Lond...
11 January 2016
One Month. One Week. Bowie.
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Today is a sad day. One month ago today I held my husband's hand as he took his last breath. I told my children that their daddy had p...
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