Louise Thompson

Or the radiator pops.

Radiator pops.

But it literally, I can feel it go like... There's this huge wave and it hits and it just goes, floods through my whole body.

And I think...

And then I go, okay, no, that's fine.

That's a sign that I'm alive.

It's all right.

My senses are still all over the place.

So I have moments where I feel dissociated and I can not smell or taste or hear or even see that well.

And then I have other moments where I can smell, hear, taste too much.

So I'm very, very, very sensitive.

I have this awful nerve pain that is something that I'll be left with probably forever.

And also, I suppose I've reached a place now where four years down the line, I think, you know what?

I really don't want what happened to me to dictate the rest of my life and what my family unit looks like.

And so we have reached a point where...

My partner and I feel like we would like to be able to give Leo a sibling because we're really close with our siblings.

And I have been left with some fertility.

So I don't have a period.

You know, there are a lot of things that make me feel like less whole and human than I used to be before.

It's not going to be an easy journey.