Welcome to Life Rewritten

There wasn’t one big cinematic moment where everything froze and my life split into “before” and “after”.

It was more like a series of shocks, appointments, scans, decisions and recoveries that gradually made it clear:
the life I thought I was living wasn’t the one I was actually in anymore.

A major diagnosis.
A big operation.
A body that didn’t bounce back on the timeline I had in my head.
Wounds that took longer to heal than anyone wanted.
And a brain that quietly filed a lot of it under “let’s not go there right now.”

I came out the other side technically “ok”, but not the same. Not really sure who I was, or how to live with this new version of uncertainty built in.

Life Rewritten is my attempt to live with that honestly.

Why I’m writing this

I’m not here as an expert, coach, or finished story.

I’m writing from the middle. From the bit where:

• you’re grateful to still be here,
• but also tired, confused, or angry sometimes,
• your body feels like an unreliable narrator,
• and you’re trying to build a life that works around all of that.

I wanted somewhere to put the thoughts that don’t fit into a ten–minute appointment.
Somewhere to trace how things feel over time, not just at one check-up.

What you’ll find here

A few themes will keep showing up.

Healing
Not just the surgery and scans, but the emotional side: fear, waiting, the way your mind edits memories to protect you, the strange guilt of “looking fine” when you don’t feel fine.

Rebuilding
Trying to create routines again. Figuring out what you can handle. Letting go of old expectations. Learning how to be a person in ordinary life after hospitals and high-stakes conversations.

Tech that helps
We’ve got tools now that didn’t exist years ago. Apps, AI, simple systems that can hold some of the weight — tracking, planning, remembering, organising, even just giving shape to days that blur together. I’m interested in what actually helps in real life, not just what sounds clever on a tech blog.

Reflections
Shorter pieces. Notes from a day, a sentence that won’t leave my head, an observation that might land with someone else going through their own version of “everything changed”.

What this isn’t

I’m not here to give medical advice.

I’m not going to pretend every day is a breakthrough or that “mindset” fixes everything.

There are plenty of places online that promise transformations in 30 days.
This isn’t one of them.

This is slower. Quieter. Closer to how it really feels most of the time.

If you’re here because your life changed too

Maybe it was illness. Maybe burnout. Maybe grief. Maybe something else that knocked the floor out from under you.

If any of this sounds familiar, you’re not the only one thinking these things at 3am or in waiting rooms or in the kitchen when everyone else has gone to bed.

If what I write here makes you feel a bit less alone, or gives you one idea that helps you get through a day, then this is worth doing.

What’s next

I’ll be writing about:

• the emotional side of long recoveries,
• how I’m using tech and AI to stay organised, remember things, and create a bit of structure,
• and the small shifts that make living with uncertainty slightly less heavy.

If you want to follow along, you can subscribe and get new posts when they’re ready — no spam, no “daily grind”, just the next chapter when there is a next chapter.

Thanks for reading this far.
Here’s to trying to live a life rewritten, even when we didn’t choose the edit.