fall down 4 times, Stand Up 5!

Today was the 4th time my surgery has been cancelled, and tomorrow is 3 weeks in the hospital. I am scheduled on the 29th of October 2018, tomorrow morning for my CABG Bypass.

I am confident in myself and my team. I am petrified but I am strong.

Everyone keeps calling me brave, but how can you be a brave person when you don’t have a choice. I guess I could discharge myself, refuse the surgery, but where will that leave me? A few more years until I am rushed into hospital as an emergency, no way to safely start a family, continuing to live not known what might happen or when? I guess that would be the cowards way out, just to live forever scared.

My Mum raised me to be stronger than that. She raised me to be intelligent, ask questions, make informed choices, accept challenges and power through them with strength and positivity!

Tomorrow I will have my bypass, I will be finally fixed and I will recover strong!

I cannot wait for my future with my family and friends, to start a family with my husband, to study hard and guide many others through their challenges!

With my family and friends love and support, I am determined, I am fierce and I am strong!