Just like last year, I only wrote 5 blog posts this year. I'm kinda happy with that, but it's been a mixed year overall. Continuing with the same format from the past couple of years:

Health stuff

Unfortunately, last year's hospital-admission-free streak came to an end in March. My Drs wanted to make some changes to my medications (which were very successful but maybe not great long-term), and my body didn't respond that well.

I spent about a week in hospital getting things back on track, and after reverting to my previous medication regime, things settled down again for … Read more →

5 blog posts this year, which kinda reflects how busy it has felt. As the kids have grown, spare time spent on anything but relaxing or recovering is a premium!

2024 has been a pretty decent year. It's gone by so fast, I've barely been able to keep up, but it's felt like the most 'normal' year in quite a while.

Again, there's no 'List of Tweets' blog post this year, because I've largely moved off Twitter. Although Mastodon was promising for tech nerds, Bluesky has emerged in recent times as the successor for a lot of people (especially since … Read more →

On Monday, I marked the significant marker of 5 years since my liver transplant.

These past 5 years haven't exactly been what I'd hoped post-transplant life to be: getting through a global pandemic notwithstanding, I'm yet to go a calendar year after the transplant without a hospital admission. Nevertheless, I'm still continuously and enormously grateful to be here with my donor's liver, continuing my—and my donor's—journey.

These five years have gone by so quickly, but I just have to look at how much the kids have grown to see that passage of time. They've changed from infants to little … Read more →

7 blog posts this year; I think I'm pretty happy with that 😁. Could be better, but could be worse.

Generally, 2023 felt like the first sorta-getting-past-COVID year, despite me getting COVID for the second time at the start of December.

There's no 'List of Tweets' blog post this year, because Elon removed easy access to the Twitter/X API for that kind of thing. Plus, the Twitter integration on this blog has been removed for the same reason.

Anywho, let's try something new for this end-of-year post in addition to listing the blog post highlights.

Health stuff

Health-wise, I had … Read more →

Today is my 40th birthday. Yay, I guess? 😆

When I started my 30s ten years ago, it was far from certain that I was going to make it to this milestone. So, two children, one new career, two jobs, three built computers, five mobile phones, and a replaced liver later, I'm glad to have made it.

The past decade has gone by quickly, but I'm also a much changed person from 10 years ago: like, literally; I don't even have all the same organs from then. It's been a ride. I've had some … Read more →

5 blog posts this year; a 25% improvement on the 4 I did last year! 😆😭

For me, 2022 carried on from where 2021 left off: COVID still dominating my non-work life, but despite my best efforts, the virus did eventually catch up with me in the middle of the year (shakes fist at children bringing things home).

Although I thankfully did not have serious complications immediately from the exposure, I did have gastro issues soon after, which saw me hospitalised twice. The Drs eventually found out why I've probably had ongoing stomach pain for the 18 months previous: ulcers … Read more →