Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Talk about Tuesday

This is my first attempt at Talk about Tuesday. I thought I'd talk a little bit about where I am emotionally in my life right now and where I see myself heading. I hope that it might help new readers get to know me and let people who have read my blog before a little better.

First off, I believe that I have finally got to a point in my life where I accept that I am always going to have Cerebral Palsy and need to use a wheelchair and to a certain extent be reliant on others in order to be able to live a full life. As a result of this realization I have stopped trying to fight the fact that I have carers come into my home to work with me and hopefully I am easier to work with now.

I am also beginning to understand that it is okay to ask for help and admit that I cannot do everything alone or in the way that everybody else does. To that end I think I am getting better at saying no and asking people to help me when I need it. I'm probably not doing it to the degree that I should but I guess I'll get there eventually.

I think these things are a work in progress and I'll let you all know how I go.

More Talk About Tuesday posts can be found here.

3 comments:

Heather@justdoingmybest said...

It sounds like you have much more peace now and that is certainly essential to living a full life too. I'm sure it was hard work to progress to where you are emotionally now, so good job and keep it up!

Dreamer said...

Welcome to Talk about Tuesday!

Tanya Siekman said...

Karen,

I am applauding you! We all are a work in progress. All of us ... and we're all the same, whether we walk with wheels or legs, we're all the same.

We all just take one day at a time. It souns like you're seeing the glass half full instead of half empty!