2020 started with a different feeling. Maybe feeling disillusioned by the bushfires we had all around Australia which had especially around Christmas. For the first time in years, Mum and I didn’t watch the fireworks on TV (although around 9 pm we went outside and watched fireworks from nearby), but by fluke around midnight I… Continue reading Choices
Author: jacquijames
Silent Struggles
The other day I got in touch with one my old Tafe friends who has doing her own exhibitions of her illustrations around the state. I had intended to go to one to check her wonderful creative drawings out, but I won’t make it. So I inboxed her instead to congratulate her and told her… Continue reading Silent Struggles
Changes
Sometimes life changes in an instant, making you really think “Life is precious”. Since June Mum and my lives have been shook upside down, but we’ve landed on our feet with Mum’s determination and my acceptance of our new situation we’ve found ourselves in. By the way, Mum is healthy. She had a fall and… Continue reading Changes
Baby Steps
We’re celebrating a huge achievement! I’m off all my drugs now! No Targin, no Lyrica, no Gabapentin… Only Endone occasionally on my really bad days! https://www.flickr.com/photos/58372737@N00/2123878490 It’s been a long journey, since December after my back stimulator operation. I had been on Lyrica and Gabapentin since my 20’s after having an incident causing nerve damage… Continue reading Baby Steps
You Can’t Get What You Want, But You Always Get What You Need
Last month was a difficult month. A friendship broke down (I don’t know why to this day, I haven’t even told Mum what went down because I would cry but I think she’s aware because mums know everything), then Roxy our dog gave us a big scare but thankfully she’s healthy for her age! Later… Continue reading You Can’t Get What You Want, But You Always Get What You Need
2018 That Ended A Cycle
For those who have known me for the past nineteen years, I was living in a constant, vicious circle of pain and then fatigue, then the fatigue would cause pain and so on. All this was a result of trauma to my lower back. I won’t say how, but it was at no fault of… Continue reading 2018 That Ended A Cycle
A Life-Changer Procedure
I’ve been quiet for a couple of months because I was gearing up for two operations and they ended up being just under a month apart. Then after the second op I got bronchitis which I’m still getting over but I’m much better than I was thanks to some superdooper antibiotics. Thanks to my Neurologist… Continue reading A Life-Changer Procedure
Looking From The Outside
If you look at me from the outside You might assume she just sits at her computer achieving nothing, Looking at my spamsing body You might be fooled into assuming this, And I don’t make a contribution to the society… This couldn’t be further from the truth. ‘ Even though I have had more bad… Continue reading Looking From The Outside
Being An Adult
{please read this paragraph sarcastically} Everyone says to themselves when they were little, “I can’t wait to be an adult… I’m going to do this and this!” In my case it was “I’m going to become a journalist and have a family of my own and live independently!” Kiddies, adulthood sometimes doesn’t turn out to… Continue reading Being An Adult
Being A Fur Mum
Ten days ago we adopted little Frankie from Melbourne’s Lost Dogs Home. One of my sisters Monique (aka Neaky) were going down to adopt ONE cat (but ended up getting two after seeing how this particular kitty had bonded with another kitten), and I had kinda chose another kitten for Mum, looking online. When I… Continue reading Being A Fur Mum
