Life has changed a lot, but I haven’t written for almost eighteen months. No, I’m not dead. Yes, I’m still in the UK. No, I’m not on dialysis. Yes, I’ve started writing about what’s happened to me…
Hi, I’m Holly, and every day of my life I struggle with negativity. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been more than just a glass half empty person. I’ve been the type of person who worries about leaving the glass somewhere it could tip over and spill, or even worse, fall off the table and break, and then not only would I have broken glass to deal with, I’d probably stand in it
This is a post I’ve wanted to write for a long time. It’s one of those topics that’s been in my head (and my drafts folder!) for ages. I keep coming back to it because I’m convinced that it can’t just be me who has felt this way. I know there’ll be other people who are going to get it. If, on the other hand, you read this and find yourself thinking I’m shallow and
I never intended to write six posts, get completely derailed and then abruptly disappear for almost three months! But I did. Whoops. I know some bloggers say that when they stop writing, that usually means that everything is going well. No news is good news, so to speak. Unfortunately, this wasn’t the case for me. The day after my last post, I fainted in the supermarket and was admitted to the hospital with a haemoglobin level of 5. For
Michael (@wireangel) is a man from Utah who has a passion for promoting organ donation and a desire to do something for people waiting on transplant lists, recovering from having had transplants, and for people who have been living donors or families who have donated a loved one’s organs after their death. He creates and sends lovely little things called Wiregrams. I received one a few weeks ago and it makes me smile every time I
I’m Holly. I’m a writer, speaker and kidney patient advocate currently living in northern England.
