The Stranger – This is how “My Symptoms Affect My Daily Living “
Stranger – This is how “My Symptoms Affect My Daily Living “
5 am
Every morning
Ron he does rise
A battle then we
Both have to fight
To help me to
Face another day
So Stiff , So Stiff
Like a bent
Wooden board
Skin so tight
Contracted over night
A physical job
Too lift me
Pain unbearable
I scream within
“It’s another day
When will this all go away”
Never you see
This is for life
This is what God
Chose for me
Doesn’t matter what time
Night or Day
My Conditions My Symptoms
NEVER GO AWAY
Stranger – This is how ” My Symptoms Affect My Daily Living “
Ron so caring he is
My Saint
He takes care of me
Physically lifting
This body of mine
Basic tasks take
Such a long time
Now to the toilet
Then after that
My teeth have to be cleaned
My body washed
In places I wouldn’t
Want others to see
Then for my Ulcers
Cream carefully
Rubbed all over me
I’ve lost all
My dignity
Stranger – This is how “My Symptoms Affect My Daily Living “
Deodorant applied
Now for …
My socks!!!
My pants, My leggings
Then my white top
Pull On, Pull Off
Simple Task
Not for me
Struggle A Day
Is What I Say
No Fancy clothes
No skimpy tops
No buttons
No zips
Just the same
Warm clothes for me
Stranger – This is how “My Symptoms Affect My Daily Living “
Now for those Stairs
Thirteen in all
We count them
Many times together
Each one I know
So well down
The mountain side
Stranger – This is how “My Symptoms Affect My Daily Living “
An hour has passed
It’s half past five
Now for a drink with
Medication for me
No hot cup of tea
Lemonade I take
One sip at a time
Dribbles come from
This mouth of mine
Stranger – This is how “My Symptoms Affect My Daily Living “
6am …
Ron starts his normal day
Escapes you see
Not for me
My body has taken that
Away you see
Trapped in a bubble
Trapped in the house
I start a very
Different day
I’m left with …
My Best Friends’s
My Dogs, My Parrots
There is …
No Escape for Me
Moving slowly around
On my walker my frame
Slow painful steps
This is my life
Too try in vain
Too stretch my muscle
Too move alone again and again
Oh no !!!
Oh silly me
I’ve done it again
I’ve tripped
I’ve fallen
Another bruise to my head
Another war wound
Too my pride
Too have to have
Someone to
Rescue me
No fun at all
No life at all
Oh I wish I didn’t fall
You silly legs
Why don’t you move
Now look at me
Lying in pain on the floor
Stranger – This is how “My Symptoms Affect My Daily Living “
It’s only … 7 am
Daily life
Daily routine
Has been affected by me
Oh I couldn’t survive
Without My Friend’s My Family
OH NO
Ambulance Next Door !!!
They have taken
My Friend
My Helper away
All this has happened before
You knocked on my door
8am
THE START OF YOUR DAY
My body aches in
Every joint Every muscle
But …
I have no choice
I will face you alone
To answer your Questions
Perched on my stool
Now My Story I Tell To You …
Now Stranger
Can you see …
“How My Symptoms Affect My Daily Living”
A letter dropped through
My Door
A few weeks later
A MIRACAL IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO ME
17th May 2017
A day for my diary
My needs will
Only Get Worse
I have Chronic Incurable Conditions
They and there awful symptom
Unfortunately
WILL ALWAYS BE WITH ME
Words and Pictures
By …
Liz Lee
