15/09/2025
Weird how one pic, taken in my practice on a random Friday, can tell my story so accurately:
PROTEA:
I once was married to a Protea cricket player for ten years. I have now been married to Johann for ten years. He proposed with a huge bunch of proteas and we got married with proteas everywhere. I walk a few minutes from my home where they grow abundantly in their natural habitat. The only habitat in the world where they do. Where they belong. Free and wild and breathtakingly beautiful.
UTERUS
I had ten fertility treatments, one miscarriage, two miracle babies and a hysterectomy. At midnight on my 40th birthday I was admitted to hospital because I was bleeding so severely and I lost my uterus shortly after that. Despite desperately desiring another baby.
..and my day job happens to to hinge pretty pertinently on things revolving around these organs. The hormones, the pleasure and the pain they produce. I love dealing with them and the people they belong to.
Here they stand in juxtaposition and also in harmony. The pain and the pleasure. The hurt and the healing. The grace and the gratitude.
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