I’m on my way ......

 Almost a month since my last update but what a month! It has been full of highs and lows but the overall feeling has been that I’m managing to keep moving forward 🙂 The funding question around my ongoing care continues to rumble on and I have to admit that has left me feeling anxious and angry in almost equal measures. I can totally understand how people must feel like giving up when it seems like you’re constantly being told the equivalent of “Computer says No!” Over and over again.😞 It seems that the system can’t cope with any circumstances that deviate from a prewritten flowchart. That said, I can’t let this demotivate me and, until we get a final outcome, I need to concentrate on doing more for myself so that my need for personal care becomes less over time. ( End of the boring finances moan 🙄) A massive thing for me this month was finally being able to get back to my own Hairdressers @aurum_hair in Knaresborough.  It’s crazy, I know, to travel over 60 miles to get your hair cu

 Another eventful couple of weeks 🙂. We had some lovely reactions to the interview we did with the wonderful Gary Philipson from Radio Tees and one of the recurring comments was how strong a team David and I seem. During the conversation I also realised that , while my initial reaction coming out of the coma last year was one of sheer dread, there really are worse things in life than being a Quad-amputee. Feel free to listen to it on the link below. It starts about 20 minutes in. 🙂 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p09m8vm2 I’ve also been trying to get myself out and socialising more. I have to get back to feeling comfortable mixing with people so we arranged a meet up with an old friend of David’s and strong supporter and new friend of mine, Julie Munton who was in the area for the first time in a while. It was lovely to finally meet face to face. What Julie didn’t know was that it was the first time I had had dinner with someone outside of the immediate family but she made me feel