WIGS FOR HEROES

Ladies and gentleman it is true, your Dr Martens will pprrrrobably outlive some of the relationships you previously thought were solid as a rock. Just goes to show these boots are everrrthang. Lets start this with the old saying...I am not crazy.... and anyone who has 'drifters' will probably agree with me too.  What are drifters I hear you ask? Well my trusted readers, those are the people who you thought would be there for you whenever you needed them....day or night. Don't get me wrong, the strong ones will hang around like a bad smell you somehow... oddly enough WANT around, and they will ultimately be given the title 'forever friends'. Been on holiday together ...check....made music together....check....fought cancer with me...check! #relationshipgoals are met by your significant other and your 'forever friends' but #drifters is now the ugly new trend. When I was first diagnosed, it was so hard to digest the fact that I had cancer. M...

After 3 admissions my body was tired and sadly my iron levels dipped. Being Thalassemic Trait is bad enough as I'm always slightly anaemic in general, but whilst having chemotherapy I knew at some point my iron levels would dip so low that I'd need a blood transfusion. Naturally I was terrified, I didn't know how a bloody blood transfusion really worked and I was worried about the process when really, it was a 6 hour piece of piss. I was tired, wow extremely tired and boy did the transfusion give me the burst of energy I was craving. I was sat in the unit alone at first, a bald bag of nerves, the nurse kept telling me to relax but I couldn't. The thought of someone else's blood entering my arm, the thought of having a bad reaction, it pulled on my anxiety strings and it was starting to show. The nurses at North Mids chemo unit were amazing, they spotted it and made sure I relaxed. We chatted and they brought me a sandwich,  2 gentlemen then came in the ro...