RORY'S STORY

The day Finley arrived was yet another bizarre assault of emotions. He arrived very quickly, as apparently second children are wont to...

It’s absolutely bonkers that it’s been a whole year without you little Bean. We stood outside PICU in the little courtyard behind rooms 9...

I'm not quite sure how I feel about the term 'rainbow baby'. In some ways (say 25%), I think it's sort of beautiful - the idea that...

I looked back recently at my 'Welcome, Grief' post that I wrote about a month and a half after Rory died. It felt like yesterday that I'd...

How can so much joy and so much pain happen in just nine months? Becoming a grandparent for the first time was a delight and a...

**TRIGGER WARNING** This post is highly sensitive and contains a lot about events surrounding death. It may not be everyone's cup of tea...

While we wouldn't "10/10 recommend hospital to a friend", we would hate anyone to think that hospital is all doom and gloom, so we...

We sat in the PICU Quiet Room of Doom (different ward, just as Doom-y) the day after Rory’s death with his Clinical Nurse Specialist and...

Following the initial diagnosis, we spent most of the next three weeks setting ourselves up for Rory's brain surgery. The surgeons and...

Where to begin? Maybe it's best to begin with the facts and offload all the emotional baggage later... (you can look forward to that......