| Introduction | My husband Chris and I live in East Africa. In 2003 we travelled the continent in a vehicle we nicknamed Brian (it looked like the snail from the Magic Roundabout). We arrived in Uganda to see friends and volunteered for a charity, fell in love with the people, the wonderful lifestyle and stayed. We set up a safari company and brought some land on the river Nile. Life was good until September 4th 2008 when our world crashed down around our ears. I had gone into premature labour 13 days earlier and gave birth that night to our beautiful daughter, Ella - she was stillborn at 26 weeks. Seven months later I miscarried and so began the search for fixing my broken body. It was finally confirmed I had Asherman’s Syndrome, a low fertility count and was unlikely to conceive naturally again. I underwent surgery to heal my uterus and at the same time we decided to stop running safaris and build a lodge - we had nothing more to loose, apart from our savings and our sanity. In July 2010 lady luck bit me square on the rear, I was pregnant and the brilliant Mr Leo Phoenix roared into our world on March 30th 2011. We still live on a knife edge, it's now just not as pointy. |
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