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Published March 7th, 2012
My kitten does this thing where he hides under the table and only his little tail sticks out. I’m sure he thinks that he’s hiding from the world, but we can all see exactly what’s going on. At the moment this little guy, with his half attempt at not being found, reminds me of me.
I have only mentioned my sore ankle about once or twice in my blog and it’s been sore since last year October. Seriously, in the beginning I was convinced that it was just sprained and because we are always walking around I knew that it would take long to hear.
Then the new year kicked off with an interesting start and travel was on the cards so I held off seeing the doc a little longer. I did, however, promise myself that the morning after I landed back from the #FollowSA Tweetup in Cape Town, that I would be off to see the doc.
I did just that and after x-rays and knowing nothing was broken, he told me to rest it and try not take too many anti-inflammatories but that ankles do take long to heal.
The reality is that I know myself better than I think I do and I have started to tell Pat that, “I think I think that what I think is what I think!” Yes, it makes perfect sense to me and the thing that I think I think is that there’s a torn ligament happening down there in my ankle.
Either way I know it’s going to be all about getting off my foot in order to give it time to heal. I’m not one to listen to the general chatter of everyone else’s experiences but I do wonder whether this will end in that little common op on the tendon. It’s something that I really want to avoid, but I’m happy to try air casts or boots or whatever they are called and if I have to hobble around on crutches I guess I will do that too …
Now for me to kick myself into ‘project me’ mode and put myself first. Forget that I might have to take it easy, considering I’ve done the bed-ridden thing with my back and know that life, work and the blog carries on. Forget that I might be up on stages or in crowds on crutches. Forget that I might have to move a few things around in order to heal.
So tomorrow I’m getting out of the tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow mode and phoning the orthopedic surgeon for an appointment.
With courage, consciousness & a sense of humour
Published January 7th, 2011
Oooh, I can feel the workaholic kicking in. You would think that after a year of ‘project me’ and workaholic syndrome being the focal point for most of the year, that I would be able to tick it off the ‘unhealed’ list. Damn, it’s a bitch that traits, addictions or issues don’t just get erased from life after a good dose of attention. Sigh …
It’s an hour after the end of the working day and my stats are low, my blurb for the ‘project me’ media pack still isn’t done, my letter to my awesome sponsors has been sitting at the bottom of the screen for two days now, The Project Me Community is still flying stealth Continue reading
With courage, consciousness & a sense of humour
Published November 9th, 2010
I can’t sit for very long, so writer’s block is not ideal at the moment. I don’t think it’s a block as much as a little bit of apathy and a lot of exhaustion. It’s hard to believe how exhausting it is to stay positive and keep focused. It’s also a little hectic having to fake so much of the attitude at the moment.
I’m bored out of my mind blogging about my progress and harping on about my back but the reality is that I am reminded of the situation I am in every moment of the day. If I am not in some sort of pain I am marveling at the fact that I have a few moments of total relief. Continue reading
Published November 3rd, 2010I sat down to blog at about 11pm last night and had one of the most important moments with myself. Sliding my chair back, I knew that I had done enough for one day and that this could wait. I’m at the most crucial time of my healing because I am off all the strong medication and am still able to write. Two little over the counter painkillers saw me through the day and I could feel the push to do more.
Yesterday was beyond words for me. Continue reading
Published October 22nd, 2010There is always the one thing that pushes for the final decision and the big announcement even though everyone around seems to know what the outcome is going to be. I have been mortified at the responses of my friends when I tell them that I am continuing to blog ‘project me’ on a daily basis for yet another year.
Clearly I was the last one to figure it out, but I’m still making the big decision as though it were up for serious contemplation. I have had enough time to think about it and contemplated many scenarios of the future of ‘project me the blog’ because the journey is never ending. Continue reading
Published October 19th, 2010Today was the second session of body stress release therapy and I woke up with three burning concerns. Insomnia, midnight starvation and where is the leaking spinal fluid now?
In my world those were my only concerns when I woke up. My most natural anticipation was making it through a day without a pain pill or being able to sit for a period of time without eventually having to deal with an increasingly painful nerve being pinched in my spine and traveling all the way down to my toes. Continue reading
Published October 7th, 2010It’s not only me freaking out about this questions. Can you believe that it’s been googled 53 million times. I kid you not … here’s proof: When is it going to rain?
Facebook and Twitter statuses have been teasing and taunting me all freaking day and the worst part is that some people in different parts of Joburg were boasting about dancing in the rain. I’m the dancing in the rain girl. Continue reading
Published July 20th, 2010I have just deleted all that I had planned to blog about and find myself with a blank canvas and a heading that I have no intention of changing. I had started to reminisce and list all of the events that have filled up the precious moments of ‘project me’ and even went as far as to link certain events for further reminiscing, but then I realised that I know my story well enough and so do my loyal followers. Continue reading
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4 CommentsPublished July 19th, 2010Firstly, my Greggie is sick and my natural mothering instincts are to molly coddle him and make sure that he does all the things within the collective to make sure he gets better. That would just be totally dumb considering we both know that he didn’t ‘catch’ flu and that manifested if from whatever is going on in that gorgeous physical body of his. So there’s no stopping him from doing anything he doesn’t want to do and the battle was won at about lunch time when I left him in capable hands of a dear friend and toddled on home. Continue reading
Published May 18th, 2010Even though I’ve got a dear friend who’s helped me prep for this afternoon’s tattoo and I’m more than a thousand percent sure that I want this beautiful piece of art that is symbolic and permanent … I can’t help but admit that yesterday was consumed with the distracting fears of the needle.
Text Guy thinks I’ll chicken out just before and Mr Big was surprisingly impressed that I was following through. Little did he know that something he said was the final confirmation that I was born to have this tattoo. Continue reading
