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Biology in The ugly truth about making babies
So I downloaded a fertility tracker app. To be honest, I went on the pill when I was 18 and had my first serious boyfriend - always have been ridiculously responsible! Since then, I was on the p...
Number crunching in The ugly truth about making babies
So since joey told me about his low sperm count, I’ve asked him what exactly his count is, what the implications of it are in terms of chances of conceiving etc. He’s always told me he can’t exac...
A little bit of everything so far in The ugly truth about making babies
So joey and I decided we want to start trying for a baby. I haven’t written in so long I don’t even know what was going on last time I did. We’ve been together for a year, living together for si...
I have keys! Against all odds, no games, no messing, just turned up and handed them over. I’m working tomorrow, and will be going back to stay in our house, with no fear of psycho ex turning up a...
Taking the shine off in A new era
Things have been very difficult over the last few weeks. I’m still to move in. Psycho ex has taken six weeks to arrange an appointment with her solicitor to sign the paperwork required to sign th...
Read all about it... in The dating game
I don’t suppose it’s the dating game anymore. Joey and u have been together for almost six months now and it’s going really well. So well in fact that he’s asked me to move in with him! Its funny...
Sentiment in The dating game
I’ve never been the kind of girl who receives flowers from boys. Tim, who I lived with for three years, used to buy me them quite often, but since then, over the last 9 years, it’s been a bit hit...
As things stand in The dating game
It’s been forever since I’ve written here. I read all the time, I occasionally comment, I even open this page and then find I have no inclination or inspiration to write. As usual, it’s drama an...
I’m a billion percent happy that American citizens are able to marry the person of their choice, wherever they may be, whoever they may be. It’s insane to me that in this day and age that it’s e...
Old lady bones in A new era
I’ve had pain in my right hip for at least 18 months, but have brushed it off as wear and tear from half a lifetime being on my feet for work. Since the beginning of this year though I’ve had ac...
The clock is ticking in A new era
This week, a lady was admitted to our ward with a suspected blood clot. She had with her her six day old baby, as she was breastfeeding. You can imagine the stir this caused on the ward, anyone c...
My grandad has died. Surrounded by family, peacefully. Heartbroken. Xx
The end is nigh in A new era
Last night I shouted at a doctor. She came to do a full neuro exam on my grandad, asking him to lift his arms, touch his nose etc. Clearly she hadn’t even looked at him because he was barely brea...
There's no dignity in death in A new era
I had a message from a friend about my grandad. We got chatting and he went on to say there’s no dignity or grace in dying, you can only hope there’s no pain. I have to disagree. I’d like to thi...
I’m particularly lucky to work with such a lovely team of girls. We’re more like family, when one of us hurts we all hurt, if one of us cries we all have a whinge. We had a particularly bad day...
The other side, the dark side in A new era
My mum and I, needless to say, made up. We had a good long chat once the heat had died down and things are OK. My grandad looks a million times worse today. Medically, there is nothing to be don...
Moaning minnie in A new era
I am struggling with my mother’s selfishness right now. I know life has changed for everyone since my grandad went into hospital, it’s an endless round of visiting, making sure my grandma is OK, ...
If it’s not one thing it’s another. I worked yesterday, popped down to see my grandad at lunch and he looked tired, and had pain in his head. Given that he’s had bleeding in there, not surprising...
Another day in A new era
We made it through the night. The consensus now seems to be that he doesn’t have aspiration pneumonia, but that his heart is much more damaged than we already knew. He’s also in a precarious pos...
Today my grandad had three seizures. Today my grandad had two separate bleeds on the brain. Today, my grandad had acquired an aspiration pneumonia from vomiting whilst unconscious. Today my gr...
Everything in A new era
I haven’t written in a long time. I think I need to go friends only for a while, so if there are any secret lurkers who’d like to keep reading feel free to leave a comment and I’ll add you. This...
Day 4 of annual leave in A new era
And day 4 of hospital visits. Monday mum had haematology clinic, all good news, still no sign of any cancerous cells, hurrah. Tuesday she had an appt with endoscopy for these oesophageal spasms t...
Sea change in A new era
I don’t know what has happened but something has. John has been super attentive this last week or so, he took me for a fancy chinese banquet last night, and when he could see I was about to crawl...
Missing you in A new era
I miss George. He was my go to guy, whenever anything was on my mind, good or bad, he was my go to guy. Xx
Things are not easy. Things are not easy at all. John is much better, but still not 100%. We’ve had a very tough time. He’s told me he doesn’t know why but he can’t seem to treat me right, and t...
