Even though I stand in the middle of my walking frame, I still consider it part of my personal space. Something happened the other day in regards to this that made me feel uncomfortable, if I’m being honest.
Author: Nicola Golding
My name is Nic, I'm 26 and just happen to have Cerebral Palsy that I've had since birth. It mostly impacts on my legs and my left arm and so I use a walking frame. When I'm not blogging I can usually be found making YouTube videos, reading or trying to write a novel.
Taking time for the little things
This week I’ve actually made some time to get on with all those little things that I’ve been meaning to do for weeks. They aren’t all things that are all that important to the ebb and flow of everyday life, but I think they’ll all come together to make me feel better within myself.
Sometimes I don’t think I talk enough about the ebb and flow of my everyday life away from my cerebral palsy enough on this blog. It’s not all that interesting, but I’m feeling in quite a positive place right now, so I thought I’d talk about it.
Going to the doctors
I finally went to the doctors because I’ve had a cough for about a month. It took me so long to go because I didn’t want to waste their time if they were going to tell me it was just a cough that could go away on its own. However, four weeks or so down the line and it didn’t seem to be improving. Obviously, the practice nurse I saw was lovely and gave me some antibiotics just help it on its way.
She didn’t make me feel like I was wasting her time at all, which was a relief.
Sorting my hair out
I have finally, finally, finally booked myself in for an appointment at the hairdressers. I think I’ve actually been meaning to do this since the end of November or early December, but life happened. Now the situation is getting pretty desperate and my fringe is taking over half of my face to the point where my mum keeps saying that if I don’t get it cut soon she’s going to take the kitchen scissors to it herself.
I’m scheduled to go next week and I can’t wait to not have my hair in my eyes anymore. I’m not sure what I’ll have done. Probably just a good trim.
Buying printer ink
Since the start of the year, I’ve been working on a massive edit for one of my bigger, longer-running writing projects. I’ve been printing lots of pages so I can edit them on a hard copy. It also happens that the ink lights on my printer have been flashing at me for the last couple of weeks, but like Penny and her ‘check engine light’ on The Big Bang Theory, I’ve been ignoring it and hoping for the best. I finally bought some more yesterday. I haven’t actually changed the cartridges yet because I think I’m going to wait for them to totally run out first, but, y’know, when they do, at least I’ll be ready now.
Edited my CV
I spent some time last year doing freelance work, so I stopped actually looking for full time employment while that was going on. Now though, I’ve finally got my CV up-to-date and started applying for more things. Getting to interviews by myself in the cold, icy weather can be a bit of a challenge, but I’ll worry about that if I actually get any interviews!
I still have lots of other stuff that I need to do, like phone wheelchair services to ask them if I can new seat belt for my wheelchair because mine’s getting a bit worse for wear, and I have birthday presents, cards and wrapping paper that I need to buy at some point this week.
I think I’m making good progress though, if I do say so myself.
Video: Body Confidence & Hospital Appointments
Hey guys,
I just made this video about Here’s how my body confidence changes when it comes to cerebral palsy related medical appointments that I thought I’d share on here too.
You can click here if you want to see more things on my YouTube channel
Giving it a bit longer
I had another acupuncture appointment the other day. My acupuncturist was really pleased when I told her that I’d hardly had any hip pain at all between appointments.
We’ve decided now that we’re going to try leaving a bit of a longer gap until my next session and see how that goes. It’s been aching a bit more over the last couple of days, but I’m interested to see how things are once it settles down again.
Speaking of settling down, my backache from my the start of the week has now gone again like I thought it would, even if it did take a little longer than I thought it might.
In other news, we had some snow and ice here this morning. On what fun.
A change of pain
Over the last couple of days I’m becoming aware that the ‘mystery hip pain’ I’ve had on and off for the last couple of years has hardly bothered me at all. I only notice it now when my hip needs to crack or if it’s about time I stopped sitting in a chair at my desk and went to stretch out of my bed for a bit.
I think this is probably down to the acupuncture I’ve been having lately. I think I’ve had about three appointments so far and the results have already been far better than I could’ve hoped for. I’m not sure how many appointments I’ll be entitled too, but I hope the results carry on when my treatment is over.
That said, I was kept awake by pain last night, and it wasn’t in my hip. My back was the culprit this time. I think I spent a bit too long sitting in my wheelchair yesterday so I’m feeling a bit stiff today as a result. I have yet another cold too, which isn’t helping matters, but this kind of backache usually dies down again after a couple of days.
If anything, (and this is going to sound strange, but I hope someone, somewhere gets where I’m coming from), it’s actually quite nice to not be focusing on my hip for a change, but on somewhere else instead.
Yeah, being achy isn’t nice, but it is kinda nice to know that even if one part of my body is bothering me, it’s not the same one that been giving my jipp for ages. I’m hoping this is a sign that things are getting better for my hip.
Although, I’m not gonna lie, even though I wouldn’t swap my walk-in shower for the world, a hot bath would be lovely for my back right now.
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