I should have known better, but I never think things through. Hubby started a new full time job on Monday, for which we are eternally grateful. However whilst he has been at home all day he was doing jobs like the kitty litter trays and getting the bins out. Now he isn't here in daylight hours those jobs still need doing.
The thing is mum is nearly 71 years old and she is already doing the day to day stuff like the laundry which my physio has banned me from, and washing up. So there was no choice but for me to attempt these jobs. That said the bins are a nightmare as although they are wheelie bins they still need lifting. That mixed with snow and standing on crutches was not going to go well. That said I managed not to stack it whilst doing the work. But come this morning I woke in crippling pain, pain so bad I am heading for a day in a bed.
I was originally depressed about this fact, especially as I had done so well yesterday.Well I was depressed until I read an article in one of the Sunday magazines ( I don't them all in one day) It was about a man who had cancer in his leg as a teen. He talked about the way he and the fellow suffers on the ward, how they made a pact to stay positive and if one of their members died the rest of the group had the obligation to continue living not just for themselves but for the ones that had died. It went on to talk about how he had a funeral for his then amputated legs and the mishaps he had with the hydraulic leg that he was fitted with. The whole article was focusing not on what he lost or the sadness in his life, but instead how he turned it around.
Having read this article it made me a little less negative on the day. Sure it is frustrating having to have enforced duvet days, but instead I should look at the cause and the affect. Instead of seeing it in a bad way I should see it as a way forward. Yesterday was a manual Day, which in itself is an achievement. Today is a reading and writing day.
"So pass me the wine and the dice and perish the thought of tomorrow"
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