Its been a while... wouldn't you agree ?
Its obvious I only write when I need to catch up with myself.. or if something happens I deem important enough to either share or rant about..
Well today has arrived and we'll start as always at the beginning.
I broke my shoulder.. That's it.. And for anyone who has broken a bone or lived with someone who has you are about to skip through this part as you've already been there and experienced it first hand.
For anyone else.. It goes like this..
I decided in my ultimate and impulsive wisdom to buy a bike.. not your everyday chain and pedal bike but one with an engine.. and for this to happen.. I needed to take my cbt. This also had its own problems.. I failed the first test due to eyesight problems.. kate rushed me off to get tested.. new glasses in hand I passed my cbt (without wearing them) go figure !!
So.. a geared bike had now been sat in my yard for a few weeks before my test.. and she was a beast..
I started her up everyday and took her up the lane.. slowly teaching myself gears clutches and a big chunk of metal that could carry me off into the sunset.. with help from many friends I had it sussed.
And then the day came to legally ride out alone and I couldn't be seen for dust.. I loved the bike, I loved the freedom and everything that came with it. Until the day I fell off !!
There was no speed, no messing about.. just rain and an oil patch. Conclusion = broken shoulder with ripped tendons, muscles and ligaments and a number of other words I can't pronounce..
Now.. for someone as active as me this almost destroyed me. To have to get Kate to help me for the first few weeks in and out of baths.. and several other things I found I couldn't do.. There were tears and tantrums and days of dark dark places I couldn't see myself getting out of. I wasn't sleeping.. and when I did fall asleep I would wake everyone up screaming as I had rolled over on my arm..
To add to this I had just started work ! and now I was sat over Christmas.. emotionally and physically broken. I sold that bike,,,, I regret that !!
Then I had a phone call.. I have no recollection of applying for this job.. nor do I now know how anyone contacted me.. but the call came for a job.. I was not interested. I was tired, Hurting and truly not bothered.
But they kept calling.. told me to fill out all these forms and so.. Being bored.. I did as they said.. filled out forms signed this and that.. sent several emails and this and that.. then they hollered me for an induction/training day.. Now I'm not sure legally or morally I can say where this was.. But my friends will know and that's enough.. either way I had wanted to work here since I was a kid in whatever way possible.. and now I had the chance.
The problem.. I was still in a solid sling.
So.. off I went and needless to say I landed a temporary job doing what I love and learning everyday something new however small. T
The job itself is nothing to write home about.. and doing all this against my physios advice.. and still with a very broken bone has been painful.. But the people I have worked with have been patient and willing to bend here and there.. and have helped me heal in more ways than one. and this is worth writing about. I've met dicks and people who I thought were awesome who turned out to be dicks !! And then I've met real gold mines. I've met people who I would not normally socialise with, and they've become fantastic friends.. but truly in their own way they have all been insane fruit loops.. and the funny thing is.. it's all very genuine.
People talk to you... daily.. strangers have become friends in a very short space of time.
Within days this will all be over.. and I doubt I will ever experience anything so frantic again..
But I will look back on this winter in years to come.. and I will never forget what has truly been an insane few months,
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