‘Come and go’ daily life

Holiday is nearly over!

Reflecting the last twenty-eight days holiday mode I took my annual leave and allowed me to recover my new disability a rest.

Nothing prevails to me or to us at home here! My sister’s daughter and her family were due to spend with my sister ‘B’, her family and with our family over Christmas time. My niece Samantha and her family’s plan did not work out what they were expecting in Sydney, Australia. Samantha’s husband David (Dave) was involved in a serious vehicle accident and ended up in a hospital. It is a life-changing for them now and the future. Dave’s best mate set up a website ‘GoFundMe’, and the funding will help my niece and her family for their financial needs such as medical costs and pieces of equipment for I know Dave will need it around the home and possible for his work in the future. It will be more than two years for Dave to recover from his injuiries. Dave is a kiwi photographer for all skateboarders from around the world over nineteen years. You can check out the website here and support them by fundraising. https://www.gofundme.com/x7wty7-chami-family-support?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fb_dn_cpgnsharemore_r&fbclid=IwAR2ZtDl6zJ0dyIKWDYwxtoq8caMggZOjJYUL4hnB2_Fy4DcjU9ClYysJMVQ

Dave’s injuries were no stranger to us for my partner ‘R’ who had been involved with his motorbike accident many years ago. ‘R’ know what is to feel like and to live with it. His injuries including skin grafts from his legs were pretty much the same as Dave. For me as an ex-health carer assistant to two specialist hospitals in Hamilton where there were so many young people suffering from a head injury to body injuries from their vehicles accidents to fall accidents including drunk driving accidents. I was working there for six months. Currently, there is one man who is in wheelchair, and I often met him at my workplace. He was one of the ex-patients who I looked after and take care of medication and therapy. When he got out of the specialist hospital, he was walking again a very long time ago. Today his body is unable to cope with the fitness strength and get tiring quickly. However, he is so delightful to see me at my workplace where he can pop in for a meal lunch once a weekly.

My garden was full of mess, and the extra height windbreak meshes onto the fences were not done as I promised to do this over the holiday. I have not done any weeding or pruning back any trees last year because I was still in pain for a year. Then I got the result from the specialist and my diagnosed was not so good. It was called Chronic C5-8 Radiculopathy Degenerated Disc Disease. No one came to help out for putting the extra height of the windbreak meshes onto the fence since I placed the advertisement in the local newsletter and on the Neighbourly website. Why do we need this? Because our middle dog can jump over the fence when someone was walking down the rural road plus one nuisance lady who forever ringing up the Dog Control Department over four years. She refused to come over or to learn about my disabilities and my NEEDS and SECURITY around the home. Our dogs are not aggressive types, they are working dogs for me as a deaf lady who cannot hear any sounds out there. We just had enough with this nuisance lady and move on. I managed to do the gardening for the last two weeks, BUT I can not do daily or once every two or three days a week. My right side of the body gets tiring quickly and become very painful. The fence was not done and it is on the job list to do this year.

Lastly, I spoke to ‘R’ that we should be pulling down the old farm homestead rather putting off. We were so busy, and I was battling with my right side injuries for the last four years. So we did pull down the old farm homestead every two-three days over two weeks at the beginning of January. We have not completed it due ‘R’ was back to full-time work, and I am not allowed to do on my own for safety reason.