Every which way is Win!!!!!!!!
Tuesday the 12th was D-day, my interview for my Student Nursing Times Award for Outstanding Contribution to Student Affairs took place. I was up bright and early at 4.30am so I could catch the 6am train from Walsall to Birmingham New Street as I was meeting Alison Geeson the Head of Mental Health Nursing at the University of Wolverhampton. It was Alison who nominated me for the award; it was only right that she walk this path with me, so we made the journey to London together. Alison has been so supportive and encouraging of my endeavours whilst at the University. Including my poetry and establishing Positively Dyslexic Nursing, along with the brilliant Donna Harding (Graduate Teaching Assistant for Nursing at the University) who is my right arm in setting up the dyslexic support group and blog. We arrived at Euston just after 9.00am, had coffee then made our way to the tube station. I got into a bit of a muddle thinking I’d lost my tube ticket so bought a replacement a...