So tell me… have you ever had a life-altering moment?
Something that is big enough to completely transform, not only the path of your life, but your entire outlook on the world too?
I did recently. And I’m still slightly reeling.
It was a regular Friday afternoon, I’m playing with the kids, feeling more than the usual exhaustion that a working mum of two feels by the end of the day. Taking myself to bed with a couple of Panadol, hoping it will ease by morning, I’m quickly staggered by how truly awful I feel.
On it goes until Sunday afternoon, when eventually I buckle and head into emergency.
Wheeled straight through emergency and into intensive care, I know things aren’t good, and diagnosed with severe pneumonia and acute sepsis of the blood… the saga begins.
With every spare vein connected to some form of IV, the machines bleeped, the doctors scurried around and the husband… Read the rest