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Three days of my Life: Reiki, wheelchair mischief and stupid mouth ulcers

Hello all and welcome to the week that has been, or at least, three days of it. If anyone thinks that my life, our lives, is boring and uneventful, they can read this and scrap that misconception.

I began my week with my first ever Reiki treatment. When ‘Googled’, Reiki can be defined as ‘a form of therapy that uses simple hands-on, no-touch, and visualization techniques, with the goal of improving the flow of life energy in a person. Reiki (pronounced ray-key) means "universal life energy" in Japanese, and Reiki practitioners are trained to detect and alleviate problems of energy flow on the physical, emotional, and spiritual level.’ http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/reiki

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(Part 3) Survival strategies – missing people and your own things

When you are away from home – unable to do very much for yourself, because the environment isn’t equipped for you, and also fearing that something is very wrong with your health – minutes equate to hours and you begin to miss your own things and your own people faster than you might ever have imagined.

Being in one room for a few days, the little things really start to matter. Your mind goes into overdrive and you begin to think too much about, well, everything. You dwell on the grey areas because you have the time.

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(Part 2) A day in a ward: drugs, why anyone hospitalised needs them

For my first night in hospital, I was placed in the men’s spinal unit. They all snored in unison. All night! The next morning, I was moved into a room with three other women. I think I was the youngest by at least thirty years. It was like the ‘ghosts of Christmases to come’. And these futures made me shudder.

The woman to my right was easily 80 and did not eat solids – not that chocolate custard for lunch would bother me. She had fallen and broken her hip. Ouch! I am not a fan of potential hip problems, but the most confronting part was that she would often have quite lucid moments where she’d converse with a gentleman who wasn’t actually there. She used to be a nurse apparently. Time can be cruel.

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Grr Period

Men look away – you hate this stuff. I remember when I had my first period. I was really excited. I was a woman! I was excited for about five minutes, ’till I realised that it was a painful, cramping experience that would be with me for a decent chunk of my existence … if it did not kill me before then.

For the rest of the day, every friend who was unfortunate enough to phone my house heard the news from my mother. That is what happens when you are the only daughter. She, for some bizarre reason, was proud. I found the whole ‘womanhood’ experience annoying and severely overrated. I’ve thought so ever since.

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