Hello my wonderful second family
I know that I disappeared and I'm sorry to have been gone for so long but I had to go on a trip of monumental proportions on my own so I could come here and tell you all about it.
I am now the new me.
I was the new me over 2 years ago but couldn't get it through my thick head that what I am is who I am. There were a lot of things I had to get my head around so grab yourself a cuppa and see if any of you can relate........
I used to ...... be a doer. (I'm unable to fulfifll that role so I am a doer when I can be.)
I used to ...... drive. (I don't now and I handed in my license.)
I used to ...... look different and my ears used to be the same length from my chin. (They aren't now so I've given up wearing earrings.)
I used to ...... hear. (I've lost the left ear and hearing going in my right ear now. I'm used to it and others around me need to get used to it or I won't hear them.)
I used to ...... babysit. (Not until the youngest is walking now. The older ones can stay if they like as long as they know how to make their gran a cuppa and (my oldest 15yo grandson is 6'3") they don't want picking up for a cuddle.
)
I used to ...... drink from a cup or glass. (Now everything is through a straw, whether it's a cuppa or a cold drink, out or at home, because dribbling down one's front isn't ladylike.)
I used to ...... have a shower (don't try to picture it ) with water running over my face. (I have a handheld shower and put a hand over my eye to close it.)
I used to ...... not be dizzy (The dizziness is there and I'm aware of things that aggravate it)
I used to ...... not have sounds inside my deaf side.(I have a cacophony or the most spectacular sounds that should be put to music by Green Day
)
I used to ...... be able to concentrate for more than an hour. (Concentrate on something? I've lost the art completely!
)
Ok that's enough. Time for me to come clean.
I'm normal!I had a lightglobe moment about a week or so ago and realized that this is as good as it gets and I'd better get used to the new me because the old me went on holidays and never came back.
My sense of mischief and humour (Aussies put a 'u' in everything from colour to neighbour LOL) are well and truly in tact and I use it daily. Usually it's from a prone postition but I can be a funny bugger when it comes to my own predicament.
For anyone that's had a lot of surgeries, had a big AN removed, or simply has had a heck of a time of it post surgery, I have some advice.....
accept it, do what
you can with what
you have and tell the people around you what you're going through.
Now I'm going to have a good look at what I've missed out on since being on sabbatical and see if I can jump in and lend a shoulder.
