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My Mum turned 60 last Friday and I meet up with her for lunch along with my two sisters-n-law and my daughter.
An old friend who works in the café where we had lunch was shocked to see me in a wheelchair and didn't realize I was still ill and as bad as I am.
What is it that if I'm in a chair I'm really ill, but if I'm walking about I'm OK????
Why can't people see beyond the physical and immediate point of life?
I get funny looks when I get out the car with my blue badge on display, but when I get pushed back to the car in a wheelchair I get looks of pity or no one looks my way at all.
Anyway, We had lunch then I went for my needles, while daughter stayed around town with her friends, then on Sunday we went down to Mum's caravan (mobile home type thingy) on the holiday campsite at Felixstowe, for her birthday BBQ.
We turned up a bit early to help mum and to give me time to put the flowers I bought her into vases.
I sat and helped to prepare salad items and as people turned up I got to have a chat with most of them as they came to the table to get food.
Then later that day I managed to get into the parks swimming pool.
OK the pool isn't very deep or very big, but it's big enough to swim in and to float in as well as being a perfect pool for teaching in.
I played with my three year old niece as she jumped in to me for a while, then her big brother jumped in to me a few times.
I got to swim across the width of the pool and back (5 or 6 strokes each way) twice, which was wonderful, then I played chase the ball with my niece while teaching her to swim a bit.
This was the first time in over two years I had been in a pool, and I managed more in these 30+ minutes than I had two years ago.
I am so happy I managed to do so much for me, yet so little for anyone else.
It has made me come to terms with the fact that I do still deserve DLA as what I managed wiped me out I know it did, but I enjoyed every minute of it.
Thank you for my small glimpse of real life and true health, as for the small time it took to glide across the pool I felt normal & healthy, not weak and ill.
I never thought good health would make me feel so happy and that I would miss it so much, but I do...............