I wanted to write another journal
entry today because I have newsworthy substance to impart.
As you may have read in the
previous journal entry, on Saturday I went walkies to the top of Denmark Hill
and on Sunday I walked my gorgeous visitor to the hospital entrance and back. This gave me the realization that I CAN DO
THIS! I CAN stop having seizures, I CAN
walk again, I CAN be in a noisy, bustling, crowded space, I CAN talk normally, intelligibly
and authoritatively. Basically I CAN
HAVE MY LIFE BACK. With independence and
options and enjoyment and love and companionship. All those things I had long ago lost to
illness and misinterpretations. This
really IS going to work!!!!!
So, in this heightened state of
self-acknowledgment and awareness, Monday was “Ward round day” and I was able to
decide, along with the team, on a discharge date!!! And so it is to be that, on the 25th
March 2014, I shall be leaving here and returning to Hampshire, once again to
take on this wonderful world of ours. I
wonder what will befall me upon my new pathway through life. I am still unsure as to whether I shall be
able to drive and I am finding this question to be increasingly important to me. Upon this decision depends my future
moves. I am starting to allow myself the
faint hope of being able to MOT my car, have it serviced, hook up my caravan and
go a-roving for a couple of (few) months into the summer. I have decided every other “procedure” I should
re-organizing at the hospital I shall put on hold. They are unimportant in the grand scheme of
things (at least, until my arm drops off and the other bit I don’t use any more……..).
Leoni, now in her home stretch,
has choices to make and we are all encouraging her in her efforts to push on
through the pain and despondency, irritation and annoyances, bewilderment and
past to achieve her goal. I’d like to
walk out of here to the main entrance with her beside me to see me off…………..
(are you listening L????) XX.J
Today, being Shrove Tuesday, our
resident cookery team came up trumps once again and out lunch was capped off
beautifully and tastefully with pancakes and a choice of toppings – lemon and
sugar or ham and cheese or chocolate spread………………..mmmmmmmmmmmmmm. THANKS PEOPLE!
We also had 2 newbies arrived, both
ladies so it’s been a fairly hectic day all told. Quite surprising how new arrivals can cause
such a change in our “regime”, especially in the dining room with seating
arrangements. I must say we do NOT do
well in changing “OUR” seating plan!! J
And so to close this evening, sitting
in the dining room on a towel (stops me sweating against the chair seats….so much
more comfortable now but won’t go into detail)J
and awaiting supper……..can I cram any more in????
Until tomorrow dear friends………..sleep
well and may tomorrow bring even better things to you all………. XX
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