Communication must be the 5th Vital sign in ICU !!!

Communication must be the 5th Vital sign in ICU !!!

Communicating there are ‘no promises just possibilities’ gives patients, but even more importantly, vulnerable family members, HOPE.  It’s not false hope, nor is it about quashing all hope of any future improvement either. Frankly, during the last 8 years of my...
Inspiring the self-belief to #thinkdifferently

Inspiring the self-belief to #thinkdifferently

Since February 2010, my life suddenly changed beyond all belief! Disbelief, would actually be more accurate. I suffered a catastrophic brainstem stroke. Yeah me, the thirty nine year old, obsessive, uber fit 70 mile-a-week fell runner and mum of three dependent...