Hello all you good folk
Well, it’s been a couple of weeks since I last wrote on the blog. In a nutshell, times have been tough! Personal loss has been combined with a nasty combination of blinding headaches, aching digits, fluid on the chest so you battle to breathe, and a few other maladies that have almost brought me to my knees mentally and emotionally. I think one could call the last few weeks….overwhelming.
However, even in the darkness, I knew I had to fight to survive. I have witnessed people giving up and leaving this world and it is traumatic to say the least. My Doc, the nurses, my friends and my family couldn’t have tried harder to help me back to the light, but like most things, you have to take the initiative and try to pick yourself up.
On the positive side, I am again on medication for my chest, and am slowly gaining a bit of physical strength. January is just around the corner. By some miracle, I have two men who are O pos and want to donate, and possibly a third. Life is full of unexpected graces and I feel the best way to embrace them is to pass the kindness on. My painted platters (#ThePlatterProject) Facebook, are being ordered from all over the world now. I paint when I am strong enough and Legh drives the whole project forward. So far, we have donated to Kidney Beanz (kids with kidney problems), Musa of Open-EyeFoundation, (look it up) Nkombe Rhino Project, Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre, Zimbabwe Conservation Task force and I’ve probably forgotten a few others. Our aim is to facilitate donations to the tune of R 1 million. We’ll see what happens after that! You see, I think if we have a purpose in life, it forces us to focus and try.
Jill is coming out from Canada this week but I will not be able to get to Cape Town, I am not physically strong enough and just cannot take the risk of catching some bug or other on the plane…. But we shall all face time on Sunday. The first time we will have seen each other from school days, 35 years ago!!!
I wish you peace and happiness and will definitely keep you informed as to the process of seeing if either of these two friends match me from January …. Miracles happen all the time. The other thing to realise, is nothing stays the same… May you all have a good week, and if things aren’t going well, it’s a good thing to remember!!! Until next week. Love and peace, Legh, Di, Kristin and David.xxxx