A huge part of the whinging was about my many and varied health problems and why oh why was I so plagued?! I seemed to get ill all the time and rarely had a full week where I was feeling fit and healthy. Well - all reasons have been revealed. I discussed these in a previous post.
Well now my treatment for my hypothyroidism has started and I have been taking it for about a month now. Its been rocky, if i'm totally honest. Most days I dont know whether I am coming or going; my metabolism is weird, my sleep patterns are affected, blah blah blah BUT I have not had an infection in this month!!! thats a first in about a year!!! Alhamdilillah!
Eventually all this will calm down and my system will reset and I will become somewhat normal :-)
Also about 5 days ago I had that knee op I needed. It wasnt a major operation- just key hole surgery but to my mind, if it requires general anaesthesia then its MAJOR! lol The idea of the op didnt freak me out as much as the anaesthesia did. The idea of being unconscious and unable to control what was gonna happen - scary!
But Alhamdulillah it all went well and I am now on the road to recovery. And though it may be long it is going well and I dont seem to have developed any complications :-)
Soo - all in all it all seems to be going rather well (thank God) and life seems to be progressing. In the spirit of this positivity I got my sister to take me for a walk in my wheelchair on Sunday to walk a friend home. She doesnt live too far but what an experience!!
Firstly, I felt like people had never seen a hijabi in a wheelchair before!! I got stared at so much!! It was weird!! So, cos I am crazy, I just started waving at people who stared!! lol serves them right! :-P it was hilarious but my sister made me stop!
But one thing this experience has made me notice up close and personal is how inconvenient the world is if you have a disability and how hard life must be. For example the pavements are NOT wheelchair friendly. They have bumps, cracks, dips, holes.... its not comfortable, it isnt even safe. Plently of times the wheelchair almost tipped over. Not to mention that half the time you cant off the pavement to cross a road and if you manage that then u cant get back up onto the pavement!! How do they expect people with disabilities to live full and active lives if they cant even go for a short walk safely???
This is so totally unacceptable and I am gonna write to my MP about this and I suggest if ur reading this, u do too. I'm lucky, i'll walk again in a matter of weeks or months but what if I cudnt?? I'm an active social person, I love to go out. If i was stuck in a wheelchair or on crutches or had any kind of disability this life that I love wud seriously be curtailed.
Its something to think about.... how much we take for granted.
2 comments:
that's terrible especially considering how much the govt go on about uk being so wheelchair-friendly - and btw keyhole surgery is BIG news!! alhamdulillah it went well, hope u're up and about soon inshaAllah and u continue to remain un-infected :)
awwthanks hun and insha'allah all goes well. But let me tell u - this whole being wheelchair friendly is a load of crap (politest way i cud put it!!). Seriously just go outside ur house and look at the pavement and the road and the height of the pavement at the bits that are supposed to be wheelchair accesible, look at all the bumps and dips and uneveness in the pavements - its actually dangerous in some of these places to be in a wheelchair!!s
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