For as long as I can remember, I’ve made light of my disability and often make jokes about it too. Sometimes other people are shocked by this, or I can tell they want to laugh they’re not sure if they should or not.
The thing is, I’ve got my cerebral palsy for life and no amount of being sad about it for wishing things were different will change that, so I would much rather spend time laughing about it and seeing the funny side. I think a lot of other people I know feel the same.
Thankfully, I don’t get much in the way of arm pain anymore. My shoulders used to hurt quite badly when I was younger because of the way I stood, my my surgery a few years ago seemed to solve that problem nicely.
That said, over the weekend, I got quite a bad bout of shoulder pain that I think started in my back and went down into my right arm. This may not sound like much, but I was surprised at just how much bother it caused me.
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It worries me more and more these days.
Last week was tough.
In fact, it was one of hardest I’ve had for a while both on a physical and mental level.
The first few days were spent riddled with anxiety about job hunting related things that I won’t bore you with. As soon as that had sorted itself out, I had a physio appointment during in which the subject of how my increasing pain levels might be linked to the fact I’m getting older. Even if my physio did tell me she thinks I’m a long way from coming off my feet yet, I’m only 24 and right now I’m not exactly filled the confidence about my ‘cerebral palsy future.’
Then came the bad CP days; three of four of them in a row.
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