After all my great plans that I am going to become the world’s best blogger (I mean not really but you get what I am saying), I have not managed to blog since May 1st. Lots of reasons for this and I guess that really the majority of them are pretty positive.
Work has been quite intense. A lot of overtime and not a lot of rest periods. As people may know, the care industry is having a huge staffing issue in general and the home that I work at is absolutely no different to that. We always staff the house at a safe ratio and this means people have to step up and put the hours in. Lots of work means less time for fun things, like blogging for me so that’s one thing.
I chose to take up another different sport (maybe the material for a whole new post…). I took up American Football (why not?) and this takes up a lot of my weekends. We train on Saturdays and play on Saturdays but in places like Leceister and Sandwell which mean big drives and days out. All very cool but less time for the ol’ blog to get done.
My health has actually been pretty darn good. I opened this blog to talk about the trials and tribulations of having Ulcerative Colitis initially, then having a stoma and if I am being totally honest, for me, there haven’t been all that many. In general, I am a fit and healthy person and I don’t really look see my stoma as a barrier to anything and then I forget to write.
So, I will endeavour to be better because as I sit and reflect, maybe this is what people now need to hear. I am a person with a stoma that leads what I see to be a pretty normal life. Maybe that is exactly what I needed when I was first diagnosed and following surgery, just how normal life can be.
Get yourselves ready, more life updates, maybe a little stoma updates (of course all the important stuff) but maybe, just maybe, life with a stoma isnt all about having a stoma. Maybe life is all about having fun despite it?