By TOG

When applying to Oxford Uni, our founder @thattillyrose was seriously ill and barely went to school. She held onto her dream of studying at Oxford Uni and taught herself from wards and waiting rooms. Tilly went onto read English literature and language at Jesus College, Oxford. Whilst there she found out she had been living with 13 years of undiagnosed active Tuberculosis and had to start 18 months of lifesaving antibiotic and chemotherapy treatment.
After she graduated, she launched @thatoxfordgirl to provide other young people facing obstacles and barriers with a FREE insight into the application process and student life. it is now an established access resource, with over 100 current Oxford student ambassadors writing for the platform.

Sadly, Tilly's own patient journey continued, something which she shares on her personal Instagram @thattillyrose where she writes 'chapters' on her patient life..
Her chapters have now been turned into a memoir, published on 17th April 2025. Available to pre-order NOW!
A third of the book is set during Tilly's time at Jesus College, Oxford.
'Swap Chaucer for a chest X-ray, Rosetti for resus and Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own for ‘Never in a million years will you get a moment alone’ and once again, I’ve unfortunately found myself in a very different kind of story' (Be Patient)

Be Patient by Tilly Rose
‘It's the sleepover from hell that no one prepared you for. The doctors have gone to medical school, the nurses have gone to uni - but what about the patients?’
Available NATIONWIDE on Amazon, Waterstones, Blackwell’s & Bookshop.org:
Available WORLDWIDE from Blackwell's: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Be-Patient-by-Tilly-Rose/9781780726229

Tilly has also paired up Coles, a lovely indie bookshop where you can pre-order a ‘signed and dedicated’ copy of Be Patient. When pre-ordering with them you can submit a personal message to someone in your life which Tilly will write in the book: https://coles-books.co.uk/be-patient-life-by-tilly-rose-signed-edition
"Huge thank you to all of you for following my story and cheering my team and me on. it really has kept us going and now I plan to use my story for a much bigger purpose. I have seen too much and changing patient care is no longer a choice. This is just the beginning."
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