This is me at the beginning of 2012. Not the best start, possibly, to my fortieth year on earth? In some ways, not really. But in others, perhaps I can see it as the best start, because if this lot works well I may feel better than I’ve done in months and months, and that is a hope I am reaching for right now. I may be somewhat naive, I know myself what I am like and how often I suddenly fall, even when having a ‘well’ time, but I still want to hope. I suppose if I didn’t have that to reach for things would look much worse and maybe I wouldn’t even get as better as I could do. Maybe. So I’ll keep hoping for healthier times.
I’d love to get some exercise this year, if I could. Early last year my physio put me on a pulmonary rehab course which I found so helpful. It wasn’t the most rigorous of exercise and you weren’t going to break any records, form any muscles or lose much weight, but it was the whole thing I think of starting to take some control again of your body when it had been so battered. I love the thought of being able to do that once again. Until the next battering, I suppose…but I won’t give up, and stop. I might even get out that dusty Wii fit…
A big hope for me this year is that I will finally write my first book. It’s been forming for a long time now, and I think I just need to go for it in order for it to come together. Themes of healing, the church and disability, wholeness/’usefulness’, all that kind of stuff. I’m excited about starting.
And then of course there is our work here in Priorslee….I’m excited about what this year will bring.
So bring it on – good and bad. And hopefully I’ll not need those IVs again soon.
Gosh Liz it is so hard to think of someone so full of life as you being this poorly. I am so glad you feel full of hope for 2012. I pray for a year of peace and serenity for you.
Mich x
Hey Liz that looks like my dinner plate…Bon appetit!