Have you ever seen a photo of yourself from the side and realised, “That’s what I look like!”? Perhaps (like me) you have seen a photo that has captured the back of your head and realised that you are thinning on top. For most people, we see ourselves in a mirror everyday and become well acquainted with what we look like. However, what if the house you lived in didn’t have a mirror at your level and you had gone your entire life without being tall enough to reach one?
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You want to leave me with Daniel? … alone?
Penny came home a couple of weeks ago to advise me that our youngest (William) was going on a school excursion to Canberra and that she was going to accompany his class as one of the volunteer parents.
Apart from the fact I liken, volunteering as a class parent on one of those trips
to the slow and consistent pain inflicted when whipping yourself with a cat-o-nine tails, she was determined to spend quality time with William.
What? A Wheelchair?
When Daniel was 5 years old and just starting school, he primarily used a Kay Walker to get around. Surprisingly enough, we had never once thought of him using a wheelchair as his main form of mobility – so the next comment came as a shock …
We were still in a frame of mind of We’re lucky, he’s not that disabled as to require a wheelchair
. In hindsight, up until that point, he had been small and light enough to carry around or use a stroller.
Emotional Process
Some friends asked me the other day, as to how I was finding writing a blog, about my family’s experiences and, in particular, writing about such an emotionally raw topic.
They suggested that my response was a blog topic in itself, so here goes …
Each day I take one step at a time. I have high points and I have low points. At the end of each day I remind myself of the good things that happened, no matter how small and insignificant they may appear to others. I then take that day’s emotions and put them in a (mental) box and place them on a (mental) shelf and move on to the next day … never really looking back at the previous day’s events, always looking forward to the future.
Rodney Clarke Welcome to the Hey Dad blog … my name is Rodney Clarke and I suppose I qualify for the Hey Dad blog page for one major reason … I'm a dad! More about me…
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