Titanium Jen defies the odds on Exam Results Day.
It seems like a lifetime ago since I was told I was never going to be well enough to attend university, by a Neurologist who seemed to have no hope that I would live past 2017. In a way, it was a different lifetime for me, as I now live in a way all of my medical professionals could have even imagined for me at this point in time. On June 5 th I sat my Open University exam to complete one of my second-year modules in English Literature and submitted a large end of module assignment to be marked by an examiner also. I left that exam, unsure of how I’d done, and questioning whether ‘my brain post-surgery could really do this’. Still now, nearly 4 years post-surgery and all of the trauma which followed, I still find myself doubting my ability to succeed academically. I’ll cut to the chase for you all, after a grueling wait the years results were finally in. I finished a day worked and had a quick mosey at my phone. There were two emails from The Open University. Both module res
