Silver Linings

As the saying goes ‘every could has a silver lining.’ I had some clouds in 2011. Whiplash, concussion and topped off by pneumonia in November/December. For a long time, I found it very difficult to find anything positive that came out of my whiplash injury, but thought that once I was past it I would […]

LOA – Time to Heal

I recently made a very difficult decision to take a medical leave of absence from my PhD studies at UBC. In hindsight, this is probably a decision that I should have came to before now, but being the driven overachiever type, its hard to accept that you won’t succeed at something even when you try […]