Hello there,
As predictable, I didn’t manage to update this blog once again for a while, but, hey, we talked about it already, so after this little into, I’ll just write on whenever I can as if no hiatus has been taken. It’s painful for me, but I guess it’s something I have to get used to it in order to improve.
I just hope it works.
In this blog post I want to update you on the situation. The little surgery I had on my shoulder went well, the staff at the hospital was super kind and caring. Doctor was very zen and calm and the nurse held my hand almost the whole time. I felt cuddled.
I spend a very long time nursing the wound and, knowing my weak body, it will take a while before I could move as before. My back as well started hurting for the lack of stretching, which combined with my sedentary job, was detrimental for both my posture and my strength. You already know the series of events that came after another in the past few months, so I’m not gonna repeat myself here.
However, I want still to make a list. Once again, it concerns my body and I decided to make this list only after thinking of it for a while.
If I look at myself in the mirror I can see a fair amount of scars spread all over me. I’m sure that out there there are many people who suffered more than me and that have more scars than I will be ever able to count.
The only reason I’m here brainstorming on the number of scars I bear it’s because I also want to remind to myself that I can keep fighting even if everything seems telling me otherwise. Without comparing myself to other people, I had my share fair of personal problems and battles that I won. So it should be a constant reminder that I can make it.
I just have to remember.
When I was very little I loved to hear my favorite uncle to play piano, to the point I wanted to mimic him. However, while playing, I hurt my right hand with a broken key and I still have the scar from it.
A few years later, our doctor told us I should remove a nasty looking mole. I did but the stitches got infected and it was a pain to remove them at the A&E, so now I have a spider shaped scar on my shoulder-blade.
Around that period I got a scar on the right arm, a tiny one left by my dog, Max. We were on the way to the vet and he recognized the building, and got so scared that he tried to run away from me. He left me a scar in the process. This one I must say, like the one on the hand, are more memories and give me nostalgic vibes.
Jumping forward to university period, I have a scar at the bottom of my throat. I had a biopsy performed in order to investigate something that resulted to be TB eventually. Since my body has never been very good in closing and healing scars, all of them are pretty evident even after years.
Next big one was my C-section surgery. When I had my daughter, after three days and night worth of labour I had to undergo an emergency surgery to give birth to Maya. Unfortunately, as consequence of the fatigue my body went through, the TB showed up again. So only after 4 months, I went under surgery again and had an abscess removed. This resulted with two scars: a bigger one on the back and a very small one, where the drain tube passed. Yes, even that gave me a scar.
Two years ago I had to remove other two moles on the lower back, as they appeared out of the blue and, finally, I had to remove the mole on the shoulder blade that I mentioned in my previous posts.
And so far this sums up the amount of scar I bear on my body. As mentioned before, I don’t think I’m special or that nobody had a worse carousel of experiences, but sometimes I feel down as it seems there is no end to the downtimes. And looking at the scars just reminds me that I’ve been through worse and everything is gonna be ok!
How about you? Tell me in the comments!