Being human
and life's little mysteries

This is…. My new best friend. It’s my second visit to A+E in less than a week. Based on this, and a handful of other recent visits to...

I have a 77 year old liver; the rest of my body is 51. This mismatch of age between a vital organ and the rest of my body does not rest...

Since I was three years old, I’ve been poked and prodded by strangers more times than I can count, or even remember. Hundreds of blood...

Monday, October 10th was World Mental Health Day. The stigma around mental health, its causes and treatments, and how the stigma itself...

Morning view from kitchen. As The leaves have fallen off this statuesque beech tree, so too I’ve been going through my own state of...

Life on 10N is Very touch and go right now. Each day there are new emergencies and something physical, emotional and/or mental to...

When I got the call from the transplant team four months ago, going through the motions of getting prepared for the hospital and prepped...

Time, beyond being a measuring tool to make appointments which deem us too early or too late, confounds my cortical mind. It has been...

Yoga chitta vritti nirodhah (Patanjali 1.2) The state of yoga ceases the fluctuations of the mind (when you are in a state of yoga, all...

There is more to life than increasing its speed. –Mahatma Gandhi It never ceases to amaze me how people spend their time. Whether its...

A beautiful being, friend, yoga student created this presentation for the NHS to increase awareness and numbers of registered organ...

If your life were a game, what type of game would it be? Chess, Monopoly, Solitaire? In the past six months, my life has turned into a...

Whether we realize it or not, our lives are but a series of relationships. Egg to sperm, fetus to uterus, mother to baby, baby to mother....

After a long day as a ‘ lady in waiting ‘, I was eventually sent home from the hospital; no new liver, not even a souvenir t-shirt! Not...

At 5:30 this morning our landline rang. Having been up already for several hours engaged in my normal itching and scratching rituals, I...

After a blissful, blessed evening with beautiful beings offering up pure love in every direction, it is hard for me to believe that this...

By all accounts, this week was an important week. This evening I returned home to my beautiful family without pain, and have remained...

Monday marked the beginning of Transplant Assessment Week, the week that consists of many tests and procedures to establish whether or...

Often in life, our ability to connect or estrange people lies in the language we use. Body language plays a part, as do tone of voice and...

I’m going to need a new liver. Some of you may know about my personal history with illness, and if you follow my blog you may have even...