This strange space called recovery…
My faithful blog followers know that I’m just back from some unexpected surgery over the Christmas and New Year period – an urgent hernia repair for those who like detail. I’m now in this strange space called recovery, when even a raised eyebrow sees Rosemary anxiously asking, “Are you sure you should do that dear? You don’t want to set the process back.” Oh it would be so easy to exploit everyone’s good will. I just need to cough a little piteously and I get offered another cup of tea or a biscuit. True, I don’t fool everyone. My 9 year old...
Read MoreWhen mental health is the issue…
Most of us are sympathetic when family or friends face an obvious physical ailment. We are often a lot less certain how to respond when it is a mental health issue. Yet all the statistics indicate that large numbers of people struggle in this realm. It’s something we talk about too little. Pleasingly, and going against the trend of silence, the latest edition of the Advocate is devoted to exploring issues of mental health. For those not familiar with the Advocate, it is an award winning Perth based Christian newspaper produced on a monthly basis. I write a regular column for it (and it...
Read MoreOn walking with a limp…
The title of today’s post is not figurative. After excessive zeal at the gym, I have landed up with tendonitis. My physio advised some exercises to help settle it, the key of which involved standing on a step and lowering my heal to stretch the tendon – all good until I overdid that and slipped off the step, twisting my ankle in the process. If it hadn’t been so painful, it would have been funny. And painful it was. It was so bad I was convinced I had broken something, but have been assured this is not the case. However, it will be a few weeks before I am back to walking as...
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