My tale from yesterday, while sitting in the hospital as my poorly daughter receives treatment….. I sit here watching and waiting as the nurse takes her temperature and blood pressure. A recognisable churning, reminiscent of previous visits, makes itself known in the pit of my stomach. Here we go again! I say we, but it’s not really me……it’s my daughter. As I sit here and write this, she’s about to

It happened exactly eleven years ago today. And I remember it as if it were yesterday. The birth of my eldest daughter……..Jaina! A few days overdue, and my wife’s waters having broken many hours earlier, we awoke in the middle of the night, sometime just after 3am, the contractions just starting. We phoned the hospital, and they told us to make our way there (well, not really me….but my wife

It happened two weeks ago today. The day started as most Sundays do, for me: up early, a little work on the computer, get the kids sorted with breakfast and into their hockey kit, and out the door to hockey training, hopefully giving my wife a lie in. Training was the same as ever – my youngest trained first with the minis, and mid-morning my wife turned up to collect her,