Wish You Were Here

10 November 2019 09:20 If you had met me 2 years ago, you would have met a calm, funny, outgoing person who was lying to herself about how she was.  Someone who would go home and just sit for hours on end binging Netflix, who had no social outing planned because she felt like she either wasn't really wanted there or just couldn't be bothered to go. Someone who had a husband and loved him, but rarely showed affection because she had so many drugs in her system, she couldn't feel her emotions. Someone who was a shadow of who she was before the medication.  I used to take 3 pain medications for the pain, 2 for anxiety and depression, 1 for symptom control and 2 for sleep. This was how I functioned for 5 years. 5 years of being a shadow and feeling disconnected from myself and numb.  It wasn't until I found out I was pregnant that things changed. I wasn't allowed my medication; it would harm the baby. So, I made the decision to stop all my drugs at once. ...

10th November 2019 To those who are no longer with me,  To all my regulars, you'll have noticed that since returning to University, Wish You Were Here has kind of felt as if it was on the back burner, and it was. The start of this Uni year was so full on and so overwhelming that something had to give and it unfortunately, it was this. That doesn't meant to say that it is the end of Wish You Were Here (this blog means more to me than I could ever put into words,) because it's not, it just means that the day I upload and the frequency of when I upload will change. From now on you get to look forward to hearing from me on a Sunday instead of a Tuesday. The time slot will still be the same, so be sure to be on the look out at 3pm for a new post. For the time being, the frequency of once a week will remain the same, but the closer we get to Christmas and deadlines I may have to cut it back to every other week. In addition to me switching days on you, I am also super exc...