Learning how to get back on your knees
Today has been a bad day. Another worst in a series of progressively bad days, weeks, months, years. Today I went for a 30 minute walk with a friend, which was a big achievement as it's the first I've been able to get out for a walk in a couple of weeks, and it involved some stairs, which I mastered. We watched a kestrel hovering just above us, mastering the gusts of wind. The air was crisp and fresh, the burn was bubbling and alive, the birdsong elevated in the cool temperatures. When we returned to the car I saw that the back passenger window had been smashed in and my laptop and external harddrive taken from the inside of the car. Now, it's been a tough time recently. Let me just list some the things that have happened in the last 6 months: I've been off sick from work for six months now, unable to work or live and enjoy my life as I would like to. My sick pay is about to end, so I won't have an income from next week. Treatment for ME through the NHS is