April's Story

Hello my name is April, I suffered with depression really bad after my nan passed away December 2012, which was 3 months before my wedding. I looked after her for 12 months before she passed. I struggled so much having that empty gap in my life and I didn’t know where to go in my life, until finally reaching out to family and a counsellor and I finally found my calling as an AIN in an aged care facility.

Things got back on track but it wouldn’t have if I hadn’t seen a counsellor and my amazing husband and gleaming with support. In July 2014, my husband and I got the news we had been waiting for and we were having a baby. One week later we went for our ultrasound with mum, hubby and myself (of course), and we found out that I had an ectopic pregnancy and I ended up in emergency surgery due to my Fallopian tube rupturing and I lost my baby, which was 12 weeks along and one tube. This was absolutely devastating to me and my husband.

This was a huge step back for me, I was grieving for my baby I never got to meet and my depression got worse.

I went back to my counsellor for support and to talk which was the best thing I did and we worked through it together - my husband, counsellor and myself.

We had our second baby which was a girl named Maci-Rose in 2015 and another baby girl Lara Grace in 2017.

My most recent event in my life is that I lost my best friend, my mum, in June this year, 2019. I had the most amazing mum, we did absolutely everything together and would talk like three times a day on the phone. She was the most beautiful nanna to my girls.

I’m still struggling and having dark days but I have amazing friends, family and work colleagues who support me through those days.

My husband has really stepped up with me and the girls to help with anything and everything.

I have been back to my amazing counsellor to support and give me all the ways to try and make those days a little easier or ways to cope with it. I have such an empty gap in my life and it’s just going to take time to heal and live our lives without her. She will always be around and watching over us.