We Are a Family in WM World!!
Isn’t it strange how our lives pan out? How do we end up where we do?
Over the past seven weeks I have been immersing myself in my role as Patient Support Manager at WMUK. It is becoming the most amazing experience. But how on earth did I get here?
I left school in 1971 having scraped 3 GCE O levels and joined the Army, that is all I ever wanted to do. …
So today my Blog is a very serious one. More so as this Month is Mental Health Awareness Month.
For some years now I have been a volunteer caseworker for a Military Charity where I have been in close contact with Veterans from recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and have seen first hand the devestating effect those experiences can have on Mental health. This ranges from PTSD and Trauma through to loneliness, anxiety and Depression. It is awful how poor Mental Health can impact on people. …
Prom Party
I am so thankful that I am from an era way before the import of the School Prom to the UK. As a bashful shy 15 yr old I simply would not have had the courage to ask my (in my own head) school sweetheart Pauline Stares to go to a Prom with me, never mind have a dance with her!!
However as a mature 60 something man living with WM I am now glad that I have found a PROM I can take part in without getting bashful or embarrassed at all!
Patient Reported Outcome Measures
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One of the things that has jumped out at me in the time I have been hosting our Virtual Support Groups and in my short time as the WMUK Patient Support and Information Manager is the very clear difference there is in our care pathway as a WM family. It seems that some of us, (me included) are geographically fortunate enough to be living in a region where there is a WM Specialist in the Haematology Dept, in my case Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospital, where we can expect to receive the very best available and current care. …
