On catheters …
At a routine check-up last week, my consultant said, ‘Bladder?’ ‘Fine,’ I replied, trying not to catch D’s eye as I remembered my most recent –…
Hospital-phobia
On the face of it, you’d think that any hospital would be reasonably well equipped to deal with people like me – non-standing wheelchair users with…
Annus Melodramatis
‘… and then, I nearly died!’ Those words just about sum up my summer to the point that I almost feel like apologising that I didn’t…
Meaningful discussions …
How boring are recurring health issues? Just dull as ditch water, to my mind. When you have chronic illnesses, health related problems do tend to recur but,…
Relationship Trauma?
I’m in the final few weeks of my creative writing course and one recent exercise required us to write a scene involving a confession and separation.…
2014 Archive 19: A ‘Normal’ Year
If 2013 was a ‘good year’, I guess 2014 was more my ‘normal’ kind of year. I made it through January-March without too much trouble then relapsed…
Cecconi’s Restaurant
This was not how my weekend was supposed to go … I had tickets for the Anselm Kiefer at The Royal Academy (RA), a parking space…
Clive James in the New Yorker
This beautiful poem, Japanese Maple, by Clive James, in The New Yorker, has been going around Twitter. Amazing how illness and the imminence of death seem to…
Stiletto Wheels 