Anxiety Awareness and Mental Wellness

We already have a topic on Anxiety, we initially chose to write about it as it’s a condition that my sister and I have noticed affected us quite significantly since our Dad became ill, and even more so since he passed away. Due to the high volume of blog visits gained after publishing it we […]

Sepsis Awareness

So far, the way in which the blog has been structured is that we publish a new topic each week. However, due to how many people have commented on their own experiences with this subject matter, it made us feel that it needed to be touched on some more to try and create further awareness…. […]

Lung Infection

We are writing about this topic as during our Dad’s time in the hospital he had a major incident where he choked. I was witness to this incident, it was very scary and very traumatic. Thankfully our Dad made it through this, however, we were informed that as a result of the choking incident……. Please […]

Delayed Grief

We (my sister and I) weren’t even aware this was a term used. Maybe because as we’re not focusing on the word grief, it’s not something that would have entered our mind. Our experience has made the way we look at things quite altered. We don’t look at things from the mind of someone who […]

Anxiety

In life, we can all feel anxious for one reason or another from time to time. We (my sister and I) can say our anxiety levels have gone through the roof throughout these past three years. And as time has gone on the levels of anxiety grow more and more to the point that: Making […]

Delirium

Because of the various infections our Dad contracted as a result of the Infective Endocarditis infection, he would often get delirium. We had never heard of this term until it happened to our Dad. What a learning curve this alone was….. Introduction to our experience with Delirium Delirium/Causes/Symptoms Treatment/Cures for Delirium Infection and Delirium Dementia […]

Infective Endocarditis

In September 2016 our Dad was admitted to the hospital. He had been found unconscious at home. Thankfully, just before the paramedics arrived at his home he had started to regain consciousness. By the time I arrived at the hospital (my mum and sister were already there….. Please see Infective Endocarditis which covers: Introduction to […]

Counselling/ Health and Wellbeing

From the moment our Dad was hospitalised (in 2016) everything changed completely. The bullet points below are advice we would offer. I will be honest and say I struggle to live by this myself. These are helpful and kind words of advice that we are given by friends and family. However, as much as we […]