Anika’s Thoughts of the week 16

It has been quite a week for me personally, I must admit.  I am pretty sure I have already told you that I was born disabled so you would think that I had learned by 50 years of age to accept it.

Actually I guess it’s accepting the updates on my health conditions and the new ones that get uncovered in the process of time.  My journey to where I am today has had its ups and downs in many ways but health and being well has probably been my biggest challenge yet.

If you have read my posts you will know I have been in hospital in February and March.  And one of the conditions of me coming home was to have carers come in every day to help and check up on me four times a day.

So here I was at home and I was looking at things I WANTED to do but am not in a good enough place to tackle them.  And there were SO MANY of them and everything started to seem negative.

But I knew I was booked in for a review of my care needs and so I concentrated on figuring out what they were.  So that I could bring them out in the assessment.

When I met the assessor she could not have been kinder, more compassionate or more supportive of me.  She complimented me on the fact I had already realised that I need help and have needed it for some time.

I know this isn’t a one off decision but something that needs doing so that I can learn to distinguish what I can do (or work out how to do) and what I need to ask for support with.

TREASURE 

There are times to accept life as it really is and ask for the help you need.