Growing up and having hospitals as your second home isn’t all bad, yes it can be hard, frustrating and annoying at times but it does have pros and cons.
You’re probably thinking how a subject like this can have good things to it, but I can tell you that it does! I have first-hand experience of this and I know what it’s like to grow up having hospitals being like a second home to me.
Yes it is hard and it does get to me at times I won’t lie about that and say it doesn’t, because it’s not easy at times. Especially when there’s things you want to do and you have to cancel plans or say no to things, because you have a hospital appointment or you have ended up staying in hospital again, or your ill because you poor immune system means you catch everything going around. I try and tell myself not to get upset and annoyed by it because I have to go to these appointments and sometimes I need to stay in and have things done, but I do fine it really hard at times.
Yes I do wish all too much that I was born without health problems and I wish that, I could have just one year where I didn’t have any hospital appointments, I didn’t have to stay in hospital. I’ve been on daily medication ever since I was three months old, and It does all get very annoying at times and I really hate it and say I wish I could be normal for just one year!
But like I said there are some good things about it to, like you gain what is like another family and you get to know these people and they get to know you personally, you have catch ups with them and talk about how life is going, I look forward to seeing some of them. You make friends with the nurses, doctors and other patients too, which can be nice as you can talk to them and they understand what it’s like being in and out of hospital all the time.
Another great thing about growing up with hospitals in your life is, that you pick things up and learn all this medical knowledge! Most people wouldn’t know this kind of stuff and others have to pay to go and learn a lot of it, but I get to learn and pick up all this information for free :)
Sometimes when you have illness you have to take the risk of knowing that your treatment may cause you other problems down the line, and I have had to accept that and I’m facing that problem right now. I had surgery in 2010 to remove a cancerous tumour from my tibia bone in my leg, they operated on both the Tibia and fibular bone and we never knew how it would heal and it was a risk we had to take at the time.
Now 7 years down the line and my fibular bone has finished growing back but unfortunately hasn’t grown back properly, and is now causing me problems and to be in pain 24/7. So as a result it looks like I am going to need yet again more surgery to fix this problem, which means yet another stay in hospital.
Yes when I was told this it got to me and I was upset but it has to be done and sorted out, I just have to keep reminding myself that I will be pain free after and able to get back to dancing pain free and I can be me again. I just keep telling myself that yes it’s annoying but it could be worse, I could have been told I had relapsed and the cancer was back. But it isn’t and I am okay and have now been clear for seven years which is great.
So yes at times hospitals can be frustrating and you get really angry with having to keep going back to them, but just remember that it isn’t all bad. They do have their good things and honestly as frustrating as it gets at times, I don’t think I could imagine my life without hospitals in it.
It is part of my life and it’s who I am, and it has helped me look at life in a different way, because I take each day as it comes and you never know what is waiting around the corner. Your life can change in a blink of an eye, so just keep going and take each day as it comes and enjoy every new day!
You’re probably thinking how a subject like this can have good things to it, but I can tell you that it does! I have first-hand experience of this and I know what it’s like to grow up having hospitals being like a second home to me.
Yes it is hard and it does get to me at times I won’t lie about that and say it doesn’t, because it’s not easy at times. Especially when there’s things you want to do and you have to cancel plans or say no to things, because you have a hospital appointment or you have ended up staying in hospital again, or your ill because you poor immune system means you catch everything going around. I try and tell myself not to get upset and annoyed by it because I have to go to these appointments and sometimes I need to stay in and have things done, but I do fine it really hard at times.
Yes I do wish all too much that I was born without health problems and I wish that, I could have just one year where I didn’t have any hospital appointments, I didn’t have to stay in hospital. I’ve been on daily medication ever since I was three months old, and It does all get very annoying at times and I really hate it and say I wish I could be normal for just one year!
But like I said there are some good things about it to, like you gain what is like another family and you get to know these people and they get to know you personally, you have catch ups with them and talk about how life is going, I look forward to seeing some of them. You make friends with the nurses, doctors and other patients too, which can be nice as you can talk to them and they understand what it’s like being in and out of hospital all the time.
Another great thing about growing up with hospitals in your life is, that you pick things up and learn all this medical knowledge! Most people wouldn’t know this kind of stuff and others have to pay to go and learn a lot of it, but I get to learn and pick up all this information for free :)
Sometimes when you have illness you have to take the risk of knowing that your treatment may cause you other problems down the line, and I have had to accept that and I’m facing that problem right now. I had surgery in 2010 to remove a cancerous tumour from my tibia bone in my leg, they operated on both the Tibia and fibular bone and we never knew how it would heal and it was a risk we had to take at the time.
Now 7 years down the line and my fibular bone has finished growing back but unfortunately hasn’t grown back properly, and is now causing me problems and to be in pain 24/7. So as a result it looks like I am going to need yet again more surgery to fix this problem, which means yet another stay in hospital.
Yes when I was told this it got to me and I was upset but it has to be done and sorted out, I just have to keep reminding myself that I will be pain free after and able to get back to dancing pain free and I can be me again. I just keep telling myself that yes it’s annoying but it could be worse, I could have been told I had relapsed and the cancer was back. But it isn’t and I am okay and have now been clear for seven years which is great.
So yes at times hospitals can be frustrating and you get really angry with having to keep going back to them, but just remember that it isn’t all bad. They do have their good things and honestly as frustrating as it gets at times, I don’t think I could imagine my life without hospitals in it.
It is part of my life and it’s who I am, and it has helped me look at life in a different way, because I take each day as it comes and you never know what is waiting around the corner. Your life can change in a blink of an eye, so just keep going and take each day as it comes and enjoy every new day!