I'm just like everyone else !

I saw the Neurosurgeon yesterday and he confirmed that the break in my neck is healed and I'm just like everyone else now! I feel so happy about it. I try to behave that way too but I don't always succeed. Its hard to spend 7 or 8 months protecting my neck and then to act as if everything is all OK all of a sudden. I have to remember and force myself to relax.

I cried in the taxi when I was telling Mum and Dad. In fact I was very teary all yesterday. I think it must have been relief because I was always told you can't fall over, you can't knock it and you can't look to the left or right or bend it- its dangerous. I've been adding the subtext to this, which said that if I did the wrong thing I'd die or be a quadriplegic. When I asked, all I was told was that the issue was black and white and that if I tore the nerves there would be no warning, I'd be quadriplegic or dead. I cried and cried yestreday and so I went to work to try and limit my tears. I cried again when I told the girls last night. I don't think I have ever been so wound up about anything like this for so long before. The relief is enormous. *laugh* I'm teary even while I write this. Hey guess what? I'm just like you, just like everyone else again! Well almost...