2017 was a bit of a bummer year.
The year began with all the vim an vigour of any other year, unfortunately come February I was being made redundant, this came with all the trimmings, fear, anxiety, dread, but then I sat with my wife and took stock of what had happened, she really got me that day, making me realise that i dont need to make money for other people when i could parttner with my dad to begin our joint venture in establishing our own roofing firm, this turned out to be one of the best decisions and opporrtunities we could have come across because what lay around the corner would rock our very young marriage to the core, and with two young boys to look after we would need to find a whole new level of team work.
Around about April time my Wife was diagnosed with not ONE but TWO different cancers, having never dealt personally with cancer in my close family Iwas unaware of how i would deal with the whole prognosis. First it was Skin Cancer from a mole that wouldn’t heal, this was removed via a biopsy with has left her with what appears to be a shark bite on her calf, a PET scan was done and it was found in the lymph nodes, meaning we had stage 3B Hodgkins Lymphoma. treatment would take 6 months with 12 chemotherapy sessions, where she would be drip fed a cocktail of drugs to help battle the disease. thankfully we got the all clear after the second cycle (4 treatments) and so now we are in recovery mode to help her get as healthy as possible.
I went to the Hague in the Netherlands to participate in a Flag American football tournament in aid of breast cancer. this tournament was a real eye opener to the level of play needed and level of fitness needed to participate in these tournaments at this level and to succeed, i took an injury in the second to final game for my team which meant i would be visitiong the doctor when i returned home, this turned out to be a good thing, i believed my sore feet after sports was down to shearing of the feet, turns out its a case of Haglunds Deformity, where the heel grows a shelf and puts pressure on the achilles tendon. this is being operated on in late january early february time, with a three month recovery scheduled.
The idea of being off my feet for three months is terrifying for me as i find it super easy to put on weight, and so to combat this i began doing yoga at 5am and have been making more sensible choices to what i eat and drink, hopefully this helps with the recovery as i wont be carrying as much weight and i wil be more supple to help with blood flow to the operated areas. this is one of the reasons for starting this blog, keep my sanity and normalise what is going on in my body.
Any way, i know this was very jumpy and had no real flow, but i will be aiming to do one a week even using this for work related chats. BRD Roofing services on facebook
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Ross
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