Category: Carly
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Extra Time – 14 Years On
Fourteen years. It’s strange even to write that number. Fourteen years since the day that changed everything — the day my life was split into a “before” and an “after.” Fourteen years since the moment I lost the use of my hands, my legs and almost the whole of my body….and unknowingly began to rebuild…
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Do small things with great love.
Somebody asked me what would I really want back? If I had to choose between having my legs working or my hands? Truthfully, it would be my hands. I miss everything about them, I’m now left with hands which Theodora calls ‘monster munch hands.’ And as much as I laugh about it, it’s something I’m…
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Make peace with your past.
12 things I have learnt in 12 years of being paralysed 05/11/2011 -12 years of living in extra time ✨
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Just because someone carries it well, doesn’t mean it isn’t heavy
. It’s spinal cord injury awareness month and I thought long and hard about writing something. Throughout the past 10 years I have met so many remarkable and incredible human beings. I have realised that having a spinal cord injury isn’t the end of the world, as devastating and tragic it is you can still…
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Story time.
I used to despise the fact that I had my accident, scream with anger for hours, which continued for days, weeks, months. I couldn’t understand what good could possibly come from becoming a quadriplegic. I couldn’t walk, I couldn’t move my hands, I couldn’t go to the bathroom, I couldn’t dress myself, I couldn’t do…
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10 years…
10 years, 10 years of the new me. Each year I would think how I would feel when it came to the 10th anniversary of my accident. Well it has come around so quickly…. I wouldn’t be human if I didn’t think about that night over and over again. Every year I reflect and feel…
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‘Nothing dries quicker than a tear’
2011, I started a new normal life. My new life consisted of getting to know myself and my body. I had to adapt to not being able to walk, use my hands, dress myself, wash myself, go to the toilet, relying on an uncomfortable wheelchair to get me around the list could go on. Mine…
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‘At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.’
So today is the anniversary of my accident. I am the sort of person to reminisce. Not in a self-pity or nostalgic way, I guess some may say in a reflective way. On that day 8 years ago, I had no overwhelming feeling that something terrible was going to happen, I had no intuitive…
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Dream big little one.
So, it has begun, the next chapter in my life. Being a mum! I don’t know how to begin or where to start on my incredible, emotional journey to motherhood. We are deeply in love with our tiny dream daughter Theodora Olive 5 lbs 13oz, she has truly shown me that no matter how…
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Something to tell you…
…. I’m pregnant! I never thought I would be writing something like this down it all seems so surreal even after 7 months. For me, the road towards pregnancy has been a long, battling, personal struggle. I’ve never taken the time to believe something so incredible could happen to me. At 22,…