21/08/2026
I think back to this day two years ago and I genuinely had no idea what was ahead of me. I wasn’t nervous, I was excited for the life I thought was waiting for me.
I laid in that hospital bed waiting for go down for my operation thinking about all the things we’d be able to do when I was pain free. I thought surgery would be the hard part. I thought I’d recover, rebuild my strength and eventually get back to “normal”.
Instead, it pretty much ruined my life.
The last two years have tested me in ways I never could have imagined. Some days I can hardly walk. Some days I sit and cry and wonder, why did this happen to me? Will I ever walk unaided again? Is this just my life now?
There’s been so much pain, hurt and uncertainty. I’ve had to fight to be heard, fight to be taken seriously and fight for answers constantly.
But there’s also been so much life lived in between it all.
I’ve adapted. I’ve rebuilt my business around what my body allows me to do. I’ve started educating, content creating and working towards things I’m genuinely proud of.
I’ve learnt that progress doesn’t always look like getting back to who you were before. Sometimes it looks like becoming someone completely different.
Progress is getting out of bed on a bad day. Making something healthy to eat. Making it through a day of work. Simply just getting showered and dressed. It’s the small battles I face every single day that nobody else sees.
Two years on, I’m still not where I imagined I’d be. There are more difficult days than good ones, so much uncertainty ahead and more surgery to come.
But I’m proud of the version of me who had to learn how to carry on. Adapt to a body I no longer recognised and find a way forward even on the days I didn’t know how to.
And I know I couldn’t make it through each day without my family. They see the parts nobody else sees. They pick me up, look after me and carry me through more than they’ll ever realise. This has changed their lives too and I’ll never be able to put into words how grateful I am to have them beside me.
I don’t know what the next two years will bring, but I do know I don’t have to face them alone 🤍
