Tag: family
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A PhD food journal – What I eat in a month
“Please eat a lot so you have the strength to get on.” It’s how our Vietnamese peeps usually show support and care to the young people having to work hard for their studies and career. Yet I have long realised that when I eat a lot, my body has to work harder to digest all…
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How I got over 2 failed pregnancies during my PhD
2024 has got a tough start: I just lost my first pregnancy by the end of 2023, tried again and lost another one shortly after that, right in the middle of Jan 2024. But all the losses have not been in vein, I guess, because in weathering through it all, both my life and my…
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I lost 2 pregnancies during the first year of my PhD
It’s been a week since I lost my second child, and here I am sitting in my PhD computer lab with my head in the clouds and my body floating around like it’s not attached to the ground, deciding to write down my stories as a way of piecing the past few months of my…