We arrived at Thornbury Hospital just before seven in the morning.
It didn't feel like a hospital. Not in the way I'd come to know hospitals over the preceding weeks. We were shown quickly into a private room — comfortable, calm, more ...
The information about the Gamma Knife procedure arrived over the following days, and the whole thing began to feel increasingly surreal.
Sheffield's own hospital couldn't accommodate the procedure in their schedule. When that happens, the tre...
I'd been asked consistently, throughout every medical appointment, about my balance and my strength. And consistently I'd batted the question away.
I'd had sciatica before all of this started. A bad shoulder. I'd even booked myself a ...
Wednesday and Thursday passed in a blur.
Following the advice of people around me, I spent much of those two days doing things that felt simultaneously necessary and surreal. I sorted out a Lasting Power of Attorney. I updated my will. I built a docu...
After the shock of day one, and the MRI that never happened, we were back at Castle Hill the following morning.
We took the kids to school at the normal time. Nothing unusual, nothing alarming — just a regular school run. At that point they kne...
