Mar 14, 202026 min readPart Five. Facebook Posts. First Half 20132013 kicked off with the realisation that several family members were complete and utter wankers. I thought long and hard about sharing...
Mar 13, 20205 min readTeam Underwood Lockdown Part One.When we approached 2020 I just knew it was going to be a big year. I felt in my bones that something huge was on the horizon. I have had...
Mar 10, 202034 min readPart Four. Facebook Posts. Second Half Of 2012. The second half of 2012 saw a massive down turn in Alices gastric health. After my early battles to convince medical professionals that...
Mar 1, 202024 min readPart Three. Facebook Posts. First half 2012.2012 was a weird year in so a many ways. We began to realise that Alice was perhaps going to be less affected than most cases of NKH and...
Feb 18, 20206 min readThe Dreaded R Word.RETARD. There I said it. I even said it in shouty capitals. Chances are if you have a special needs child, or really just any sort of...
Feb 17, 20207 min readHow to help a new NKH family.One subject that seems to come up a lot is what exactly can friends and family do for the family of a newly diagnosed NKH child. Or...
Feb 17, 20209 min readWelcome to Holland? Welcome to Shitsville more like.When you get a child that wasn’t quite what you were expecting, there are many standard sayings and meme’s and poems etc that you will...
Feb 16, 202017 min readPart Two. Facebook Posts. Diagnosis to End 2011At this point I couldn’t hide my despair any longer and I came off Facebook. I wasn’t eating or sleeping, I stopped seeing my friends, I...
Feb 16, 20206 min readPart One. Facebook Posts. Birth to Diagnosis.This blog post includes the Facebook updates from the day of Alices birth on 15th July 2011, to the end of that year. Looking back, it...