If any of you have a brother or sister, I’m guessing you all did that thing where one person says yes and the other says no and whoever gives up first loses? ‘Yes’, ‘no’, ‘yes’, ‘no’, ‘yes’, ‘no’, ‘yes’….and so on. It gets pretty tiresome, doesn’t it? It’s quite hard to keep up. Read More »

12 days…12 blogs…it’s been fun!

I hope you have all enjoyed reading them as much as I have enjoyed writing them.

Hopefully you have taken something from the blogs, shared them with a friend or just had a few laughs along the way! Read More »

I have to admit, I’m a bit nervous about this one.

This is something I haven’t really talked about to many people at all. It’s not something I find easy to disclose or discuss. I guess it’s precisely because of that, that I think it is so important that I do discuss it.

I have an eating disorder. Read More »

To say I have spent some time in The Royal Victoria Hospital for Sick Children in Belfast…would be, well, a very large understatement.

For someone with a fairly limited sense of direction, I think I could get from my house to that hospital in my sleep. We have driven down that road at 4am and 4pm, 12am and 12pm and other very ridiculous times.   Read More »

Birmingham Children’s Hospital has been like a second home to me over the past decade. Myself and my family have spent many a days (and nights) there, watching movies, waiting for scans, listening to machines bleeping and being treated by the best staff you could wish for. Read More »

Happy New Year!

The start of a new year, new plans, new ideas and new goals. This year, the Live Loudly campaign has got some very exciting plans in the making. Read More »

Well, the last blog of 2017!

This year really does seem to have gone in the blink of an eye.

I think we have seen some good progress this year in terms of awareness of Organ Donation. More stories in papers, more talk of public awareness campaigns, more engagement with young people. More debates about the opt in or opt out system and which we should be working with. Read More »

Well, today has just been absolutely insane.

It’s a short one today – it has been hectic! Today I was announced as a recipient of a BEM (British Empire Medal) on the 2018 New Year’s Honours List.

I’m still quite baffled and just totally stunned that the work I, with the incredible help and support of those around me, do to raise awareness of Organ Donation has been recognised in this way! Read More »

Do you give blood?

No? What’s your excuse? Do you have a blood condition? Or take medication? Or have lived abroad in a country which means you can’t give blood?

Or…do you just ‘not get round to it’? Don’t have time? Think it’s painful? Think it’s ‘icky’? Don’t know where you can donate? Don’t think it’s really THAT important? Read More »

So today I have another question for you…When you are filling in those organ donor forms, and they ask you which organs you would like to donate, will you check all the boxes…or are you squeamish about a few?

Will you check yes to your heart? Yes to your eyes? Read More »