Guest Blog: Rachel and Dave telling their Sepsis story: Scoot for Sepsis Campaign

This week we are incredibly pleased to announce our First Guest Blog. With it being World Sepsis Awareness, we decided to get in contact with someone within our social media network community to find out if we could work together in helping to spread the word about this very serious life-threatening condition. We were so […]

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World Sepsis Day – September 13th

This is a matter that is awfully close to my sister and I. During the time our Dad was hospitalised, due to his original diagnosis of Infective Endocarditis ( we have a topic on Infective Endocarditis, he, unfortunately, suffered many other various infections. One of which was Sepsis….. Please see World Sepsis Day – September […]

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September Awareness Month 2020

Our blog has a variety of shared matters that relate to our Dads seven-month stay in hospital which was far from straight forward. This month is September Awareness month, many medical conditions are being recognised in this month, we felt it only right that we make this a topic for our blog, we hope that […]

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Numbness and grief

Sitting with my thoughts, thinking generally about things, and something that came to mind is that my sister and I have to an extent closed off our feelings, or shut them down. We do this as a protection barrier for ourselves. We do this so that we can get on with whatever we need to […]

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Signs an Angel Messenger is Near

Lately, we have been feeling all sorts of ways. Upside down, topsy-turvy. It does not feel as though anything feels right or settled. It feels like we are living in a parallel world. It definitely feels like we are back inside a bubble. What bubble this is isn’t clear. Nevertheless, that’s definitely how we are […]

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Change and Grief

Life is all about change. Change is part of life whether we like it or not. Whether we are prepared to accept it or not. It is something that is guaranteed in life. For us, our life changed the day our Dad was admitted to hospital on 5th September 2016. We just did not know […]

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Cocoon and Grief

Sitting with my thoughts for a little second. Reflecting on life and how huge, overwhelming, and scary it can feel. It also got me thinking about our life since our Dad was hospitalised in September 2016 up until this day. The word cocoon came to mind when thinking about how this situation affects us throughout […]

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Loss of a Family Friend

We got some really sad and shocking news today (Friday 17th July 2020). A very good friend of our Dad’s who was practically family to us has passed away. Shocked, Disbelief, Sad, Lost. Are just some of the way we were feeling. It makes you realise even more how much:We should not take anything for […]

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