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I know the title sounds a little like doom and gloom but really it isnt. When my beautiful mum was still alive and in the final stages of ovarian cancer her words to me before she didnt speak at all, meant the world to me and I have always kept them close to my heart. At the time I thought she was saying these things because of the morphine or what the cancer was doing to her, but over the years I realised she was speaking her mind and her heart to me.



Mum told me that "People wont… Continue

So, mum is back in hospital. Her operation, or maybe something afterwards, we can't be sure, caused her lower disc to shift, swell up, and dislodge. She'd been in incredible pain for 2 weeks before I got back down there and my sister and I ganged up on her to get back to hospital. She finally acquiesced, she was operated again on this morning. Right now, she can't feel her legs, and her doctors won't confirm or deny she'll get the feeling back, which is worrying, but she's sounding positive and… Continue

The pregnancy glow is a myth. Or rather it only lasts for about two months. Before that all you feel is sick and tired, and after that all you feel is fat. And tired. I am suffering the 'morning' sickness (it lasts from 6am until about 3pm) and the insomnia (3am - ping! Eyes wide open!) and am under no illusion that this will disappear before Christmas.

I have gathered my ultimate comfort blanket, a blanket from my great aunts house that is just so think and big and heavy - they really… Continue