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If you are reading this it is because I have died and my family has worked out how to post this final blog on my behalf. I’m sorry I won’t …

A few years back I was greatly amused by a comedian who said she had been visiting her parents for Sunday lunch and had been greeted at the front door …

Element 1: An adult human head weighs 6kg on average and is supported by 20 muscles. As long as they do their work you can drive across bumpy tracks or …

… for the people who work for the NHS. I am extremely grateful to the NHS. I’ve certainly got my money’s worth ever since I was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy …

Life has moved on somewhat since I left hospital at the beginning of March, in ways that are both positive and negative. Very much on the plus side is that …

It is our practice as a household to say ‘grace’ before meals. This is despite the efforts of a friend of ours who taught our children to chorus ‘grace’ any …

I am broken. My most recent hospitalisation has wrought some changes that are as devastating as anything I have faced hitherto. The medical opinion is that my recurrent bouts of …

I’m currently enduring my fourth hospitalisation in nine months – again as a result of a chest infection. The nature of my condition is such that I have a weakened …