It’s weird, I imagine the first question people ask their doctor when getting a medical diagnosis is how much time they have left. For me it was actually the second, after “It’s that bad huh?”. It’s also the first question I get asked when I tell people
In this post are a few mini-posts I’ve written in the last couple of months. They aren’t about anything in particular, and I think they are less interesting than full blown heart surgery posts. I’m treating this as a traditional online blog, full of thoughts someone might
When I was a teenager, I think I hated the idea of running. There was just always something cooler about riding a bike, or playing sport. Or actually playing something like playing tennis or badminton, a game. The thought of doing running leisurely felt weird to me. Anybody can run
Alt title: real world thoughts of the On-X Aortic Prosthesis after 11 months Content warning for this post: Suicide and self-harm. I’ve had a lot of thoughts over the last 11 months. They’ve been leaving a trail on my notes apps as I write them down whilst on
Talking about remembering, or not
You say the ocean's rising like I give a shit You say the whole world's ending, honey, it already did - Bo Burnham, All Eyes On Me For the last 3-4 years I have eaten mostly vegan. I would eat meat on occasion, but I was
Alright, so you go through some terrible, awful, huge event in your life. It upends everything about the way you were living and those you live with, for months. For some people it might be years. For me it was emergency heart surgery, into months of hospital appointments. Yeah, it&
A heads up for this rambling blog post. After surgery, the thing I’m struggling with most aside from the physical is remembering what I’ve been doing. Until that’s got better/I’m more comfortable with it, I’ve been keeping little blogs about what I’ve been
So I’ve had some thoughts, 6 months after surgery to repair a type A aortic dissection. I’m mainly posting this to get thoughts down to paper, so don’t worry about reading all the depressing stuff. I promise I’ll put something positive at the end You’re
On August 30th at around half 8 in the morning, I got a call from a cardiologist. A week earlier I had been sent for a non-urgent exploration CT scan. We had been trying to find out what was wrong with my body, after a few months of just not
It has been exactly 5 years since I first entered the Software Dev industry after graduating (at least, according to all the people who decide my job title tell me). I'm now also on the eve of starting my fourth dev job since the start of 2022. 18
Maybe this is the start of a late 20's crisis