A Different Way of Seeing. Helping You Make Sense of the Overwhelm
It is December and many of us have already started to look forward to the holiday season. As part of my wrap-up of 2025, my next few blog posts will be a review of books I’ve read this year. Today I’ll be focusing on books written by authors from the continent of Africa. We have …
Note from Lois: This week I’m thrilled to have a guest post written by Emilie Brown from the company Continual Engine. I love receiving requests to share relevant articles from others in the same field that I think will be of value to my readers. When I chatted to Emilie and learned a little about …
I first started blogging ten years ago. In that time, I’ve created more than 530 blogs in which I’ve shared stories about my life and work. Sadly, it is a reality of my world that my blog is the first thing to be sacrificed if I’m pushed for time over a given week. Perhaps it …
After my somewhat sobering review of the past year, I wanted to spotlight one area of my work in which I have achieved what I set out to this year, that of my podcast, A Different Way of Seeing. I try to release an episode of the show every two weeks, or rather twice each …
Today’s post starts with a memory, best explained in an extract from my bestselling memoir A Different Way of Seeing: A Blind Woman’s Journey of Living an ‘Ordinary’ Life in an Extraordinary Way. “It was the evening of my 22nd birthday —10 months since I had been declared blind. We were sitting in the lounge …
Last time I told you I was scheduled for an angiogram to check my heart health as my next step towards my kidney transplant. Following the procedure, the main thing to know is that I am still on track for the transplant operation. Well, mostly on track as I will have to wait six months …
One of the final tests I need to go through before we can be approved for a kidney transplant is an angiogram. From what I understand, an angiogram is necessary to confirm that my heart is strong enough to undergo the rigours of the transplant process well. While I haven’t experienced any heart problems my …
Taking another quick break from my dialysis journey, I wanted to show you that I’m still managing to fit in a little of the work I love so much, that of sharing my story and speaking about all that is possible for those of us living with disabilities. Today I thought I’d let you know …
Last time I brought you up to date on how things are going with my dialysis. As I mentioned at the end of that article, I have simultaneously been actively working towards a possible kidney transplant. And that’s what today’s blog is about. I think when I last wrote about this side of my journey, …
In my last two articles I’ve stepped away from sharing different aspects of my journey with chronic kidney disease and dialysis. I felt we all needed a break from the topic for a while *smile* That’s not to say that nothing has been happening on that front. On the contrary, I have so much to …