October 2006 Everyone said I was ’so young’…
But felt like I had reached an ‘end-point’.
My goals had been achieved. I was content. It could be said that I didn't know where I was heading.
Friday 13th
Saturday 14th
I was reborn in April 2007. I had to let go of my old life. I had lost it.
A new life! Early on, I could not even stand up, let alone walk. Cycling was a dream, far, far away.
OK, I had to focus, progress, and get through/out-of hospital and rehabilitation homes. No choice.
Three and half years, it took me to progress ‘through and out’ (from, ‘waking up’, to moving into my own flat). Whilst I look back now and it seems like ’nothing’, those 42 months seemed lifelong. I review it and can only feel immense pride at the speed I kept through this ‘rehab period’.
I moved into my own flat over 11 years ago!
I have physiotherapy, and am constantly improving (relatively).
I am surprised that I still feel disappointed, and still hurt by things that I have been forced to accept many years ago.
Pace of my ‘determined recovery’, slowed in the first few years, living alone, which is understandable. I was still on route, but I had turned 30years old in 2014, and joined the Green Party the following year, . Voluntarily, I was employed as a graphic designer for the Greens which continued for a few years. It meant a great deal knowing that I could offer work that was valuable to a valuable cause!
It slows to a stop, then in 2019, I fall on a couple of different occasions and break several bones. Hospital. Surgery. Hospital. Surgery. Hospital.
Done
I re-enter a world that is panicked by Coronavirus.
It is a virus that is blamed for many, many deaths. It halts my physiotherapy recovery from my Acquired Brain Injury, and my broken bones!
… twice in a few years
But the Party lives on! Boris and his alcohol-swilling parties during lockdown were legendary! The chemicals they infused with vodka, Russia’s finest!
Sue Gray will not let us forget!
…please don’t forget her
So, despite attempts of Boris and Vlad, the world keeps turning (at the moment). No single human should have the ability to press a Start/Stop button, but we must all work together to maintain its current state. We must sustain the world for future generations.
We all need to live sustainably
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I have reread this post, and I feel that I must apologise for repeating the same old story, again, and again, and again...
It does my head in (no jokes), but I am constantly fearing that the world has forgotten about or doesn't know of 'the real Patrick' (beyond the wheelchair).
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