Wednesday Words of Wisdom – Keep Calm and Bake On

I never cease to be amazed at how adaptable we humans really are.

Our lives have changed so much the past few days, but yet it feels like life has always been this way. We’ve got into our groove, he and I.

I don’t go to work, I go to hospital instead.

Hospital

We spend a significant proportion of the day balancing on a hospital bed illicitly stocking up on a quota of cuddles which makes sleeping with a toy monkey almost bearable.

We drink bad hospital coffee and think it is good.

Keep Calm and Bake On

We have never seen so much of our friends, albeit by my husband’s hospital bed.

He sleeps and I watch him (just to check he’s breathing.)

Keep Calm and Bake On

I’m now the driver in the family, albeit of a wheelchair.

I give him fruit and he eats it (of his own volition!)

He watches TV  while I read aloud out of the Stroke Manual (yes, that’s a thing.)

My Stroke Journey

He listens to his doctors and I interrogate them.

He gets cared for by nurses and I feed them.

Keep Calm and Bake On

I plan his outfits and he wears them. (Best Dressed Patient of 2014 award coming his way!)

We laugh but we don’t cry.

That’s just how it is. It’s our new reality. For now anyway. 

And in the meantime I’ll just…

Keep Calm and Bake On

So what’s new with you? How are you keeping calm this week?