Last Friday I was lucky enough to speak on the radio with Carol Duncan at ABC Newcastle.

It was exciting, nerve racking and interesting, all at once. The adrenalin lasted long after the interview was over.

So, here it is, you know, if you wanted to listen to me babble incoherently.

(Sorry, it’s in three parts)

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Next week I’m supposed to be telling a bunch of very important people Ivy’s story at the launch of the Plasma Centre in our local area.

That’s pretty daunting.

For a start, I have never really written her story down in a three minute ’speech’.

Perhaps, I could just direct them here.

Secondly, I am waaaaaaaaay out of my comfort zone. Heck, I was out of it after the interview for the newspaper.

Remember, friends, phone phobia.

Bad phone phobia.

I haven’t publicly spoken to a group of people for….oh…. a good twenty years.

Yes, high school really was that long ago

and if memory serves, I was laughed off the stage.

Remember friends, library geek, most unpopular girl in school.

To say I may be needing a drawer of new underwear by the end of next week may just be the biggest understatement of them all.

I think I need help.