So eventually, that October, I was given a Birmingham Hip! I was off work for 4 and half months but it was so incredible to be out of pain! However they had already identified that the other hip would need to be resurfaced too and although things were better, I still wasn't completely fit and able!
Not long after this I changed jobs, went to work somewhere that entailed a long walk to my office. Pretty quickly my other hip deteriated! At the time I was devastated that this had happened but to be honest it was a blessing as it led to the second hip being resurfaced and a year later, well just over a year later - I decided to reclaim my life and my dreams too!
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It took just over a year, and a particularly stressful 6 months in work, to start me thinking that my catch phrase shouldnt and couldnt be 'Live with it' anymore!
It now had to be 'Life is too short - lets live it!'
I watched my mum be ill in the August and do something I NEVER thought she would do - she gave up smoking (well done mum!). So ... if at 70 ... my mum could make changes ... what could I do?
A number of other things happened too. Work got busier, mum got ill again, Christmas wasnt great, New Year was dismal! However in all of that were some better moments!
I started going to the gym with friends. I started to lose a bit more weight. I started to feel happier. At the beginning of 2011, after a really, really bad day, I realised that I had some amazing friends, who cared a lot. I realised that maybe some bits of those walls I had built had started to crumble! That smiles came a bit more naturally, that I actually giggled on occassions. Work was and still is rediculously busy. But more changes were to come, I had a plan.
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