Caring is exhausting, heartbreaking, emotional, relentless… but there’s also nowhere else you’d rather be. It is also a privilege. The time you spend caring for a loved one you will never regret.

And then you watch the nurses care for your loved one as if they were their own.

To all the year 6 pupils sitting their SATs this week: YOU are enough. You are not defined my a test or a score. You are defined by YOU. The person that you are when you’re at home, or with your friends, or playing games/sport. The person that you are when you’re happy. When

As #DyingMatters awareness week comes to an end, I wanted to thank everyone for their support, shares, and kind words. I share to raise awareness, to break the taboo, and to normalise topics that can be difficult to talk about.

To know that a wider audience has been reached,

Being a paeds nurse is more than just a job. It’s caring for them like they’re your own. It’s being their voice and standing up for them. It’s listening. Really listening. To their stories and their tales, their likes and dislikes, their hopes and fears, and making them feel

#InternationalNursesDay2024
The incredible PICU team that gave us 6 months and 2 days with our baby boy. Without them, we wouldn’t have got to know Thomas. Without them, we wouldn’t have seen him smile, seen him cry, had good times, had memories with him. Without them, he would

Incredible views outside this evening.

#Auroraborealis #AuroreBoreale #Manchester

This photo was taken 4 hours before Thomas died. We knew death was imminent. We knew this was our last moment as a family of four. Henry was being collected by his grandparents, who we had to call at 3am.
It would not have occurred to me to take photos at this point. My head was

Relatable

Emma Garner As part of my job, I’ve been part of the team providing end of life care in the community. It’s always been a privilege, if that is the right word, to be with people and their family during that time and each experience has had a profound impact on my life ❤️.

The way we talk about dying REALLY matters. Professionally, personally, emotionally. It determines our understanding of mortality and influences how we support people through death, through grief, and through life thereafter. Language matters. Individuals matter. Feelings matter.

#DyingMattersAwarenessWeek

For anyone that hasn’t experienced the death of a child, I’d imagine that it’s a near impossible thing to even attempt to imagine. In 2018, I wrote about how our family was looked after and cared for, by Claire House, in the hours, days, and weeks

They made his day

Happy Student Loan Day to me! Treating myself to a full tank of diesel 🤣😅

#StudentLife #StudentNurse #FutureNurse #NHS #StudentLoan #SkintStudent

Emma Garner Thank you for sharing your experience and your beloved son Thomas.
Spending time with my son after his death was incredibly important, as was his blessing. I think we struggle to talk about death, especially child death.
Sending love to you x

The 6th-12th May is “Dying Matters Week”. So let’s talk about it.

We all hope for a long life, and when the time comes, we all want a good death. This will look different from everyone.
But what about when it’s an untimely death? When you have to plan for your child’s death..?

Happy bank holiday Monday all 😂
#MumofBoys #BankHoliday #BankHoliday Monday #MumLife #Siblings #Brothers

#InternationalBereavedMothersDay a day I wish I never had to endure. My beautiful daughter should be 8.

We’ve no pretty pictures of her first steps, her first words or in years to come but I’m still so proud of her in the few we have.
#safermaternity

On International Bereaved Mother’s Day 2024, I’m thinking of and sending love to all who have lost children. From those who faced child loss in pregnancy, to those who’s children sadly died in adulthood, and all in between. Age doesn’t matter. Our children should not die before