FIVE GOOD DAYS

What if surviving is not one great victory-but five good days at a time?

Blue McKenzie learned early that a body can become both home and battleground. Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at eleven, she grew into motherhood while carrying depression, disordered eating, hormonal turmoil and the relentless responsibility of managing an illness that never takes a day off.

When her daughter's complex needs brought medical uncertainty, disability and an exhausting struggle for appropriate support, Blue became more than a mother. She became a carer, advocate and fighter-even while her own strength was disappearing.

Five Good Days is a candid, darkly funny and deeply human memoir about chronic illness, motherhood, mental health, financial hardship and the systems that make families fight to be heard. It explores the women who hold one another up, the private cost of always appearing capable, and the stubborn faith that survives when hope arrives only in fragments.

This is not a story of becoming perfectly healed. It is a story of remaining: loving, laughing, fighting-and believing that a life can still open.