Hospital 2019

This blog is probably the hardest of all blogs to write since I will share how my tragic accident happened that broke my back. I made it my goal to verbally share what caused the accident with the ladies in my Tropic team once I was out of the hospital. That time has now been…

Now let’s get to the shittiest and lowest experience of all and then we can hopefully move on to some more light-hearted and positive moments of my journey in subsequent blogs.  I believe it was mid-August and around Cromer Carnival day which was also when my hubby was at his busiest in our café.   The morning…

I am known as the ‘google’ queen in our household and having read studies on visualisation and it’s scientifically proven results, in hand with conversations with a friend of mine who visited to give me some ‘healing’ I decided to focus on some self-healing and visualisation techniques.   I started to visualise minions (yes from Despicable Me)…

The words ‘bowel care’ conjure up the thought of a Dr asking you lots of questions and generally ‘caring’ about bowel movements. WRONG. With 4 nurses carefully rolling me on my side, one lucky nurse got to poke an enema in the form of 2 pessaries up my back passage to see if it would trigger a…

I found it strange how the first question that many people asked me was ‘Do you get bored?’ Well only a ‘well’ person would think this, imagining themselves lying flat in normal life maybe after a bout of flu or something.  However, for me, it was hour by hour finding some relief with pain meds, having…

So, having been building myself up to start a blog earlier this year, I find myself now writing to share a completely different topic to what I had first intended. I originally wanted to share how my positive mindset, self-belief and new-found confidence had blossomed through my opportunity of becoming a Tropic Ambassador and how I…