#WordyandWheelyWednesdays: Feeling Wheely Free

Hello my lovely readers!

Another slightly slapdash post this week, that yet again isn't about what I originally planned. However, it does link in with the planned posts, as will hopefully become clear when they are uploaded.

I am currently up at uni and, for the first time in a very long while, I find myself blessed with a full team of PAs, comprised of both old hands and new recruits. Not only that, they are all lovely and keen, and genuinely want to make it as easy as possible for me to live my life the way I choose. I couldn't be more grateful. 

Of course I'm a little reticent to get too excited just yet, but that's kind of what this post is about - because somehow, even though we're all just settling in, I'm still able to maintain the improvements I've made through being at home. Usually when I'm in a newer situation, things start to slip, both physically and mentally. This time, although of course there are tricky moments (like nearly getting locked out of my flat this evening because the locks are so stiff and there's a real knack to opening them - don't worry, Mama, all sorted), I'm just able to laugh and go with the flow.

I don't mean that everything's perfect at all - my body is still my body, with its quirks, and my mind is still my mind, with its qualms, so aspects aren't as great as perhaps my various therapists might like them to be. 

Yet I seem to be more okay with that imperfection than I've ever been before; thanks in no small part to the awareness that I have people who will catch me (literally) if I don't quite manage to keep myself up. So much so that, when I got too hot today, I was brave enough to shed my hoody and allow the rare Plaid Parrott to make an appearance on campus - way beyond my usual comfort zone.

Photo credit Lynda Obeng

I guess the message of this entry is summed up in its title - I'm feeling Wheely free and, for the moment, trying to bask in that without doubting my judgement. Who knows, maybe the sun's gone to my head. Whatever's made it possible, though, here's hoping it stays for a little longer.

Love until next week,

Jx