I begin by raising a thought that somewhere early on in life, we are taught that children are not yet truly capable of knowing their minds. And yet, how many times have we heard adults say that children are a good judge of character, still possessing pure natural...

"I was too busy to think about what might be going on inside me. Whatever it was, it could wait...right?" So, while I tried to ignore the signs of a medical catastrophe-as it lay fairly dormant and only occasionally came to the surface, 'IT'  happened…and just like a...

Now for some years and for a number of reasons, I have taken a preference in having a shower instead of a bath. The convenience and speed that showering provides is clearly the main advantage of doing this and the fact that water consumption is also greatly reduced is...

What is this thing we call stress? It appears to be something of a buzzword that everyone uses these days to describe difficult or challenging life experiences. Simply put, stress is your body’s way of responding to any kind of demand or threat. When you sense...

Our brains are described a being plastic. They continually remould neural connections as we learn experience and adapt. When I was a child, I would sometimes imagine being small enough to get into a bubble that would take me on a journey around the inside of the body....

I was gripped with fear and terrified that I was going to drown and that my family would be the ones to find me in this state. I imagined family members blaming themselves for not being there to save me, so I decided that I couldn’t go. I closed my eyes and started...

I was fortunate that for many previous years, I had remained unaffected by back problems or the acute back ache that I spent my childhood and teenage life living with, but for a number of reasons, some of the old, niggling pain had gradually resurfaced again. Why was...

There is no questioning the fact that we are living in a time where so much amazing technology has been created and is being used to detect medical problems, fix health issues and save lives. Having survived a medical scare as a baby, I know that without the equipment...

I was 9 years old and was having emergency major surgery to fuse vertebra in my spine. I could see myself lying, shrouded on the operating table and there were other people in the room. Some of them were standing over me.I could hear music and a low, softly spoken...