Welcome to blog! I started it in 2020 to chart my recovery from breaking my ankle (hence the name). I guess no-one saw a global pandemic coming. It's turned into a place where I can talk about the things happening in my life, my horse and my cats. Enjoy!
A couple of weeks ago, I noticed that the seal on my chest freezer was starting to go. I’ve been doing a number of ‘home’ fixes. Sadly none of them have worked, I gave in and ordered a new one. Well I have had it 9 years so it’s not done too bad.
I decided to go for a smaller one this time as I rarely filled the old one. And it was on offer!
I was originally given a delivery time of ‘somewhere between 7am and 7pm’. Nice and vague there. Then I got a text to say ‘between 12:23 and 16:23’. Then a voicemail to say ‘between 2pm and 3pm’. Finally a call to say they were 20 mins away. It actually arrived at 2:45pm.
The delivery guys took longer to get it into place as they were both cooing over Bert.
Now I need to move everything across. The new one has a digital display and everything. Very fancy indeed!
So 2020 was going to be my year. The year I got my life sorted after being served redundancy notice from my job in November 2019. The year I ticked off more things from my horsey bucket list. The year I got my mental health back under control and reduced stress in my life.
I had a plan. And it was a good one. Then the plan changed dramatically on 2 January. I came off my horse at speed and broke my ankle. Badly. Like all good equestrians, I got back on and rode back to the yard, sorted Buddy out and then drove myself to A&E. That’s where this journey really began...
I was sent home from A&E and told to crack on, only to receive a phone call later to say they’d missed a fracture (and a rather serious one at that). Whoops! So fracture clinic on 3 January, surgery on 5 January and home to recover.
I started this blog as a way to chart my recover back to the saddle. As I cleared clinics and competitions out of my diary and wondered what the next few months would bring, it's been a safe space for me to say how I'm feeling.
The new plan was to get a new job, to keep Buddy is kept ticking over and recover from my injury. Another good plan! I didn't expect a global pandemic, lockdown and all that happened in 2020.
This blog has changed over time but it's continued to be my safe space to share the things going on in my life, with Buddy and the cats. Enjoy!
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