Bereavement Counselling in the modern day NHS

After 13 months since losing Janice to such an awful disease I’m finally granted bereavement counselling courtesy of the NHS.  Its proven very difficult to access any services for bereavement when you actually need them!   Here's my story...

Hello NHS my old friend…

Over Christmas I was waiting between different tests and consultant appointments for an ongoing issue with my ankle, so in my boredom of waiting I wrote this... :)

Caffeine and Codeine

The following is my experience of the modern-day NHS. Before however I would like to acknowledge there are some really good people working within the system but are heavily constrained or scared to make the necessary changes within. As a patient, it is easy to see the NHS being systematically destroyed by poor management, and execs who are so far removed from the patient experience/journey their decision making is questionable…

Happy Wedding Anniversary Janice

Today would have been our 12th Wedding Anniversary together, every day just seems to get harder without you being here.  There is so much I want to say, stuff I […]

Hello, How are you? Part 1…

It's been 16 weeks or 112 days or 2,688 hours since losing my loving, gorgeous, caring, and witty wife. How have I been during that time? Total shock, denial, loss, emptiness, apathy towards life and devastation just doesn't seem enough to describe how I am feeling.

In Loving Memory of my Wife

It is with deep sadness my best friend and wife passed away peacefully having bravely fought a ferocious, extremely aggressive and rare form of Cancer. At the time of her diagnosis, […]

Dobré Ráno! Ako sa máš?

Well it finally happened, took a while to sort out but here I am back in Slovakia and it’s been an absolutely gorgeous week so far with temperatures rising as […]

Amazing Sense of Architectural Humour

Who here has watched the fantastic Cold War Drama  Deutschland ’83? You can catch up on the  series here :- http://www.channel4.com/programmes/deutschland-83 There’s a scene in Episode 6 where Stamm is on […]