In the New Years Honours 2016, I was appointed Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for my services to Young People with Disabilities. Then on Thursday 9th June 2016, I received my MBE in my Investiture…
I’m not sure why society is not better equipped to support unpaid carers. Why they are so often undervalued. They save the UK on average £132 billion a year, the cost of running a second NHS, so why do we…
This post is to help those (in the UK) who are fundraising to access charitable funding and provide fundraising ideas based on my own experiences and research, though it is geared towards equipment, my ideas may help others. I hope…
It’s Children’s Hospice Week this week (23rd-29th May 2016). It’s an annual week-long event and the aim of children’s hospice week is to raise awareness of the services that support children with life-shortening conditions and their families. This year’s theme is…
Dying Matters Awareness Week 2016The Big Conversation We all have wishes, preferences and we know what we want. We make our own choices, we decide what we do and when, we make our own plans for our lives, we choose which…
Late last year I did some filming with a crew for a BBC Three documentary, Rest in Pixels. This documentary delved into the world of death in the context of our online footprint, our online representation, and how this lives…
To my wonderful friends, family and supporters, I have a very, very exciting announcement to make: I am now Lucy Watts MBE I have been appointed Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the Queen’s New Year…
Merry Christmas Everyone!Thanks so much for your support throughout this amazing year. I can't quite believe all that has happened, despite the tragedies we have suffered as a family. It started with me writing the foreword to the Difficult Conversations booklet for Together…
I was asked to speak at the Chelsea Chamber Choir's Christmas in Italy concert, the beneficiary being The Wingate Institute, a prestigious, world-renowned research institute dedicated to neurogastroenterology, particularly gut failure. I was asked to speak by my consultant Professor…
I am a medically complex patient who spends long periods in hospital, whose care is spread across 7 different London hospitals with about 12 consultants involved in my care, and who relies on and is kept alive by our NHS.…