BRUSSELS TO DORDRECHT Tijil from Skydive Flanders posted a message on their Facebook group, asking if anyone could pick me up from my hostel in Brussels to take me skydiving. Jelle replied and said he could take me. It was an incredible sunrise on Sunday morning and sure enough he arrived to pick me up…
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Fighting Failure – Update #1
HENLEY TO BRUSSELS The last week of my life has been a blur. I haven’t been able to find my flow… AT ALL. One week into my overseas cycling / skydiving adventure, and it feels like I’ve been strapped into the most intense rollercoaster ever built. From the moment I left home on Saturday 11th…
Acceptance
Accepting my diagnosis has been the hardest thing to do. It’s all good keeping busy and doing things to escape it, but the fact is it’s always there, floating around my subconscious. I can only pretend it doesn’t exist for so long, until eventually it catches up and swallows me whole. One of life’s big…
The Kidney Biopsy
I love how photos and videos can send you right back to when they were shot, even if the circumstances weren’t the best at the time. Shuffling through some old photo books with my mum recently, we found these three photos of me in hospital, in 1994. I was 7 years old when I had…
Stop Drinking Alcohol?
“Eugh, who’s house is this?” “Euughh, what happened last night?!” “Euuughhh, why do I have fried onions in my pocket, a set of temporary traffic lights in the garden, a pair of undies in the tree, a gigantic hole in the wall with a saucepan poking out of it, a police helicopter with a spotlight…