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Staying in Outer Mongolia
If you can’t rough it in the rural areas, Mongolia is not for you! I have been asked by a few people, “what is the toilet situation like?”. I am not going to sugar coat it for you, going to the toilet is basically squat, sh*t and go! When I stayed in the Altai mountain, […]
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The trip of a lifetime – Mongolia
July 2, 2023
Mongolia was everything I imagined it would be and so much more. A beautiful, breath-taking landscape that is so diverse it was hard to fathom that this was the same country. Nowhere else has blown my mind like this. We (me and my local guide) drove 3000km from west Mongolia, through the Altai-Gobi range into […]
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Mongolia
May 20, 2023
In just over three week’s time, after much procrastination, I am finally realising one of my dreams. I’m travelling solo to Mongolia!!!!!!!!!!!! Editorial credit: Katja Tsvetkova / Shutterstock.com I can only travel when my blood levels are ok. And that is now, after a transfusion. The Altai mountains in the west of Mongolia, in Ulgii […]
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Gratitude
November 24, 2022
My head has been in a thick fog for three weeks as my haemoglobin has dropped to its lowest it’s ever been. The cold weather and stress of being in the UK wiped through the last donor transfusion in less than 5 weeks. I came back to Thailand exhausted. I can’t think straight, I get […]
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“I now have tumours Mum…”
June 6, 2022
The doctors always predicted the bone tumours might come around the five year mark. I am not that far off this anniversary. But when I received the MRI report last month, I was dumbfounded. I had to read it several times. Could it be? Really? Now? How was I going to share this with my […]
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Cremation Day
February 12, 2022
Today is my Dad’s funeral and I am so far away. I have so many mixed emotions. I loved him dearly and I will never get over the sadness that it’s been three years since I got a cuddle or kiss from him. At 11am UK time, my Mum will read a eulogy written by […]
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Here we go again…..
February 10, 2022
This week I have felt like I was losing my mind. The depression has been so bad it has made me want the ground to open up and swallow me whole. The crying has been unbearable. And while there are moments where I feel nothing, or might manage to put on a brave face, there […]
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RIP Dad…..
January 31, 2022
My father died at 0315 today. My mum by his side as she watched him exhale his last breath. He made it to one day past his 77th birthday. I did not want to see him in hospital, skeletal, and attached to machines. I did not want that to be the last memory I have […]
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How do you say goodbye to your Dad?
January 17, 2022
Tonight I have recorded the most painful voice message of my life. I never ever thought I would have to say goodbye to my father like this. I am thousands of miles away in Chiang Mai northern Thailand while my father lies in ICU in London, struggling to live. Infected with Covid, clot in heart, […]
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Happy Fourth Anniversary to my Bone Marrow Cancer.
November 15, 2021
HAPPY FOURTH ANNIVERSARY to me and my bone marrow cancer!!!! This tribute is especially for you:Without you, I would never have evolved into the person I am today. You showed me what it’s like to hit rock bottom and be in a place so dark and frightening, i didn’t think I would ever have the […]
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