In the Autumn of 2011, I spent hardly anytime online. In fact, I spent several weeks on several occasions, battling my defunct body in the hospital. I remember a lot of emotions from those weeks I spent in isolation, unsure of what was happening, what would happen and how I was going to cope with it all. The smell of cannula plasters. The familiar sound of monitors going off. The…
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Double Check Up – 22.09.16
We spent the morning traveling across the city to Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QE) for my liver check-up. Iโve been attending this particular clinic for almost three years since some routine blood tests revealed very high liver function results. Given my complicated IBD history, Iโve been seeing the head of the department, a Professor; and had lots more blood work done and specialised testing to give me a diagnosis. Not that…