There’s been countless a time where I’ve walked into a forest alone and found myself completely lost.  Not because I am blind, or because there is no longer any visible path in the clearing, but because in the moment, I couldn’t think of anything else beyond the fact that I was just, very lost. I…

If you think about it, everything around us, every single little thing, is constantly changing and remoulding – the seasons, swollen summers into crisp-dancing autumns, to winters of fragile blue.  Political circumstances, turmoil and uncertainty, our financial situations, the simmering circles of our social lives, friends and families, those we both love and lose in…

1.5 million stars. Wow Have you ever looked up to the sky at night and waited for the billions of stars to slowly emerge through wisps of dark cloud?  Have you ever just stood or lay there, wondering where all these stars have come from, how old they all are, where they were created, and…

As healthcare staff, we’re not in the job to save the world, just so that we can become superheroes.  Nor do we want to be seen as superheroes every time we save the world.  In fact, most of us aren’t even on that quest to save the world – nor save lives, incidentally enough. We’re…

Many of us working in the healthcare sector often find ourselves clinging on a cliff-edge.  Many will again, find themselves creeping towards that same cliff-edge, time and time again, as our shifts get longer, we become more overworked, the system becomes more corrupt.  And many, have already tumbled that cliff-edge, both literally and metaphorically speaking. …

Entombed, I lay rigidly infixed in coils of bubble-wrap, ice-cold.  A frollick of strange lights darted in bullets of pink and blue above me, until they all blurred into one infinite line, fogs of white splaying out.  I was strapped into the hold of a Boeing 777.  They had given me a special mask to…

To all the wondrous, powerful, inspiring and loving women in my life, It’s because of you all that I am here now, being who I am, being what I want to be, with all the happiness, strength and pride you taught me to have, as we all continue discovering ourselves. On International Women’s Day 2019,…

Nowadays, it is so easy to fall into a mousetrap that is governed so much by what everyone else around you is doing, and what they expect of you.  Politics, finances, staff shortages, body image, social media – the combination of pressures has simply become a norm – the modern-day rat-race.  Yet, not everyone is…

Being the interchanging medical student that I am, I am frustratingly back in hospital as the impatient inpatient again.  Another morning ward-round has just been and gone, and I’ve witnessed yet another bunch of thumb-twiddling medical students shuffle silently behind the lead Consultant.  Not once does the doctor break their own dialogue to ensure his…

They’ve always had that saying, “doctors are the worst patients”.  Even I’ve said it many times before, nervously dousing in a feathery laugh as I try to throw in a light-heartedly sarcastic joke, the attending doctor glaring round at me with an expressionless smile.  Truth is, medical students are too. Nurses.  HCAs.  Physiotherapists.  In fact,…