For those of y’all wondering if you’ve gotten the date of my birthday wrong, don’t worry, you haven’t! My actual birthday is on Friday the 8th of November! However, every single birthday I survive to see is an absolutely HUGE deal, and therefore birthdays are always made a very big fuss of in our house. So I pretty much celebrate my birthday for at least a week! And even for the month, tbh 😂! This week is The Birthday Week, and November is The Birthday Month! I’ll be 25 this Friday, an age I genuinely never thought I’d live to see... I’ll be a quarter of a century old, as one friend pointed out!! And I’ll have been under palliative care for 15 years; a decade and a half! I genuinely believe the reason I’m alive today to enjoy this beautiful life is because I’ve had, and continue to have, such incredible palliative care, as arse backwards as that sounds! I’ve been blessed to have so many amazing drs, nurse, therapists and support workers who’ve fought with me and for me to survive, but especially to live. And I’m blessed to have a multitude of incredible family and friends who have fought with me and for me, and who make all the pain I endure with while with the joy, laughter and love they bring into my life 💖 Guys, we’ve been told I’d die so many times. There are more occasions than I can name where we were told I wouldn’t see the next hour, the next morning, the next day, the next week, the next month, the next year. People were called to say goodbye. And part of my going to Ty Hafan was that I wasn’t expected to live to see 19; Hope House didn’t expect me to live to see 25! Every day is a gift 🎁 and a blessing. I’M STILL HERE 🙌🏻😁🎉!! So yeah, I’m gonna brag about my birthday all week, and probably longer. I’m damn proud of myself for surviving to see 25; I go through hell on a daily basis to get here... I deserve to brag a lil! LET THE BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS BEGIN 🥳🍾🍾🎂🎊🎉!! #itsmybirthdayweek #itsmybirthdaymonth #palliativecarewarrior #ilivedbitches #turningtwentyfive #aquarterofacenturyold #adecadeandahalfofpalliativecare #blessedtobehere #soimgonnabrag #imthebirthdayqueen👑🎉🎊 https://www.instagram.com/p/B4hW9tSBL9u/?igshid=1o8ch03qxrnq7
