April 2022

A Shift In The ED

Nurses learn to navigate the back and forth between the world of hospital and the world of everyday norms, one minute dealing with intense human vulnerability the next heading home to family, to the normal domestic routine. We learn to make the switch, not bring work home, out of head onto paper helps me

I mention suicide here, read on with care or maybe not at all?

My Birth Stories

Maternal red thread, me, mum, granny, great granny and great great granny below

My births were rare in today’s world, both spontaneous labours, no vaginal examinations, no drugs, no interventions of any kind, nothing DONE to me. Afterwards both times, I felt like superwoman like “bloody hell if I can do THAT, I can do anything!”