How much we take for granted, these little things that come so effortlessly into our day. We manage them almost in passing, we’ve done them so many millions of times – they become as effortless as breathing.

And then the bottom drops – and you find yourself spending 45 minutes of hard core effort and ingenuity just to put on a bra – in the end, fashioning a MacGuyver like device using last years Christmas decorations ‘hangers’, duct tape, and a long piece of minty waxed dental tape.

*Don’t judge me.*

And so it goes, day one of being ‘upright’ after surgery ~ and I am knock-me-on-my-ass ‘humbled’. It’s amazing how sometimes life events, which at first seem so difficult and cruel can be the first step at acquiring a new ‘life’s lens’… I am beginning to see everything in a different light… the little things I do each day, the feel of Nudnick loyally posted at my side since I have been home… and the actions of those around me. It’s always eye-opening.

So today, is a day of making changes – and for the first time, these changes will be selfishly and all for me. Because I deserve it.

Don’t we all… ?