Fragility

Our bodies are fragile things. We charge through life urging them to keep up with us with caffeine, exercise and healthy food to assist, but when injury, illness or accidents occur, we are knocked for six. Ever since the surgery I have been struggling with excessive fatigue and weakness. I feel very unstable on my feet and don't feel comfortable walking outside without someone beside me. To feel this unsteady and weak has been quite distressing and upsetting for me. Combined with the exhaustion I feel after a shower or short walk and the many hours I still spend in bed, I've been finding it hard. I'm clinging to the fact that it's only been 3 weeks since the surgery, but I must admit that there have been many tears in the last week.

Of course there have still been many of those little joys in life. Friends who visit and bring orange and choc chip cookies, muffins, chocolate, delicious lunches, flowers, coffees, CDs, popcorn and even facials! Not to mention the literally mountains of books and DVDs I have to keep me company - lucky that I have always been a prodigious reader!

Finally, a huge HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my darling Tim today whose nursing and servitude has been constant, loving and uplifting. You are the best husband I could have wished for.