Accepting your limits

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Following our walks on Sunday and Monday, Ray has taken it easier the last two days. He has found he needs the painkiller at night as he does get tired and achy very easily. Although the exercise is helpful, he’s still learning that he now has to accept certain limitations.

Mentally this has been tough, two years ago he was a very fit 46 year old, he had a physical job and was a keen sportsman. He didn’t have to worry about limits because he never reached them , he stopped when he was fed up not because  his body said he had to.

Right now we both realise every day is a bonus and just being here at all is more than he ever expected, at the same time he is still trying to adjust in some ways to the different body he now has and learning there might be lots of new limits physically but that doesn’t stop us making the most of what we do have.

Anonymous
  • i am finding it so hard for my mind to except that I cannot do many things I used to , from being so active and camping holidays ,I now struggle daily to even try to wash up , It makes me cry and feel so angry but so it did when i got my BC and i delt with that so I will deal with too i suppose , all my love and wishes to you and your family

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

    this sounds like my fiance.. hes 24 but gradually realizing he's not as fit as he was.. he still skydives tho and runs around like crazy! i literally beg him to slow down because he hits a brick wall and is exahsted for days...