The Thief In The Night My Journey through Acquired Brain Injury edition by Catherine O'Toole Scott Health Fitness Dieting eBooks
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Introduction
You never know what’s around the corner, yet I’m someone who’s always been pretty happy with that kind of unpredictability - it suits my nature for life to throw up surprises for me to explore. In truth, I secretly relish investigating new things, because these hold the potential for both educating as well as challenging me. Of course, I’m not always successful in my endeavours, but I hold dear what I learn in the process.
Over the years, what some would see as fortitude, others a keenness to make something of myself, and a few more as downright stubbornness, my willingness to explore opportunities thrown up by the quirks of life has served me in good stead twists in the course of ‘true love’ which left me divorced with two young children became a quest to earn enough to look after them independently; being made redundant twice from private companies supplying the health service left me to pursue financial security once again, this time in the form of partnering up with a colleague to run our own business which made the most of our experience. Squaring up to this as both an opportunity and a challenge, we built a business specialising in bespoke seating and postural control for the severely disabled. Ahh yes, the irony! And when my business partner retired? I was happy to take the reins myself and pursue my own course as a totally independent business woman.
Something was still missing though. Although my role was fulfilling, working in an industry serving the special needs sector wasn’t quite enough, didn’t really seem to give enough back. So, always one to add another string to my bow, I studied and qualified as a professional counsellor too, working at my local counselling service – all aspects of my professional life poised to assist others, whatever position they find themselves in within their own.
Meanwhile, my children, my daughter and son, grew into adults. My son returned to my native Ireland to live and work and my daughter, now married, lived by the seaside. From her vantage point of the South coast, life seemed pretty good, so it wasn’t long before I relocated my business and my home down to the seaside too, a timely move as soon afterwards, when I was fifty seven, came the announcement of my daughter’s expectation of a whole new generation for our family.
Now I know fifty seven might seem pretty old in terms of many families, but at that time I didn’t think of myself as a potential grandparent and I still don’t see myself as being of that generation - somehow, that seems to be a role for parents older than myself. My own connotations of what it means to be a grandparent, what it means to be “old” - in the generational sense, as much as the passing of years and physical aging process - won’t let me believe that I’m really there, or at least they didn’t.
In the wake of an unwelcome virus, a thief in the night, I find myself denoted as a family elder in all senses of the word. Yet whilst people constantly want to compare my incapacity with what happens as we age, they are missing a vital point; I did not get the opportunity to age with any grace or dignity, it happened almost overnight.
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This is an excellent book about a patient's perspective of how hard it is to reclaim your life from a very debilitating disease of viral meningitis. She fought a very difficult battle.Product details
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This is an excellent book about a patient's perspective of how hard it is to reclaim your life from a very debilitating disease of viral meningitis. She fought a very difficult battle.
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