Let me introduce myself

An insight in to my life.

OK , so I've already given snippets of information about me, but I've not really given much away. So here is some information about what makes me 'me'!

I have been married for 23 years to Chris, and we have 3 children together, Chloe 20, Harry 18 and Erin 16. We live in Swansea In South Wales in a pretty village by the sea. I qualified as a nurse in 1997 and since then I have worked in Gynaecology and in General Practice and currently I work in a private Aesthetics clinic (more of this to come as I do treatments to help with the menopause).

In 2011 I was diagnosed with Pots (Postural tachycardia syndrome) which has multiple symptoms, the main ones being when upright my heart rate shoots up as my body cant adjust to gravity. Basically it means that my autonomic nervous system doesn't want to work properly, so any change in position, results in my heart rate increasing and a horrible dizziness until I am able to lay or sit back down.

As you can imagine this condition has had a huge impact on my life and the life of my whole family for many years. At first I did dwell on it and think that my life as I knew it was over, but after missing out on so much I realised that I had to control this and not let it control me, so I took charge. Don't get me wrong it's hard, I'm symptomatic every day but I can manage it, I know what to do, I don't let it consume me anymore.

So me as a person, I'm quite shy really, I like to stay in the background, I am very over critical of myself and put myself under immense pressure to be perfect. I've done some modelling over the years, (where each photo is scrutinised by me) however this seems to have dried up the same time as the menopause hit (paranoia overload) So my confidence has taken a knock, but that's life full of ups and downs, lets see what tomorrow brings.....

The decision to write this blog was made about 3am one morning when I couldn't Sleep. This is a regular occurrence for me, as I've previously said. I've had ideas in the past but never really done anything about them, but this was different , I felt as though I had to do it, I actually felt excited!

So there you have it a little bit of info on me, there will be more along the way but hopefully you are starting to see who I am. I look forward to updating you daily. X

Kathryn