The power of hope

The power of hope

We all need hope. Today marks four weeks since my percutaneous (catheter based) pulmonary valve replacement and I have had many requests for an update on how I am doing. The easy answer is that I am feeling good. After a few rough days initially, it didn’t take long...
Accepting Death : Choosing Life

Accepting Death : Choosing Life

Death. We don’t like to think about it. We certainly don’t like to talk about it. But it is going to happen to the people and things we love. And to us. It is one of life’s few certainties! Buddhist teachings remind us of the sense of impermanence and that nothing...
13,290 miles to nowhere

13,290 miles to nowhere

Last week I reached level 50 in the online cycling app Zwift, a seemingly unachievable goal which I had set myself soon after I first took to the roads of Watopia on March 20th last year. Ironically, this means I have cycled thousands of miles which have taken me...
Dear 21-year old me

Dear 21-year old me

Dear 21-year-old me I know you think you have something to prove, but you don’t. Those eyes of judgement which you feel nipping at your soul, they don’t matter. I promise that the heart condition which you were born with is going to become one of the least remarkable...
A ‘hearty’ relationship

A ‘hearty’ relationship

I’ve always asserted that my health challenges have brought more positivity into my life than they have taken away, but I can’t fail to acknowledge the gaping hole under my life resume of success where a significant relationship could be. It has left me wondering what...