I think you have to lose your legs to really know what it’s like to be without them. You can’t begin to describe what it’s to be without legs. You can imagine what it’s like but that’s not the same. To top it off, i’ve lost the use of my right arm and i have trouble speaking.
A few months earlier i had no idea that any of this was going to happen to me. 2012 was the year that i photographed a lot of weddIngs. did it The important thing is that a lot of people enjoyed what i was doing too. The photos of the weddings made great albums.
When the stroke happened i remember feeling unwell the night before. In the morning i tried to get Jonny to phone in sick for me. I fell to the floor. Something was wrong. I just didn’t know what it was. I was taken by ambulance, to Leicester.
It was so very lucky that Jonny was there. Fast action with strokes can make a huge difference.
ReplyDeleteYes, you are so right.
DeleteYou are right about that. How could we know what it's like to be without legs till we
ReplyDeleteloose the use of them... I've been in a wheel chair when I smashed the bones in my foot but I had the use of crutches and I could go down stairs on my bums. Not the most flattering way to get downstairs but I was mobile. So I really don't know what it feels like to be permanently disabled in this way.
I'm glad your son was there to get help for you. It must have been very frightening for both of you.
Hugs, Julia
No one can truly know. You're right. I watched my dad after he lost the use of his left leg and arm (and some of the vision in his left eye). For the next eight years all he wanted to do was be able to walk again. It was very hard for him, and it was hard to watch his pain, too. A few days before he died, he told me he had gotten up and walked to the bathroom. He was so happy. He was hallucinating, of course, but he was still so happy, and I was happy for him, even knowing he was close to the end of his life.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry you have lost so much mobility. I don't know, but I can imagine, at least partially, how hard it is.
Terry, your post inspired me to write about my dad again. It will be publishing on Friday. Thanks for the inspiration, my friend.
ReplyDeleteI will read it.
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