This is tough.....
 

Im 6 mnth PC. I have been working, being a mother, having people over for dinner, suffered a stomach flu followed by a long nasty cold, but am trying to stay normal.

Surprise, surprise! I wake up this morning feeling like the world is spinning, every head movement causes pain and feeling sick. I can't walk in a straight line. I'm crying because the reality of how severe my injury was comes back to haunt me again.

Trouble is until I have an MRI with dye imaging, no physio will touch me. The NHS are great but hurry nothing unless you are dying.

The thought of making the phonecalls is so daunting.

I know the answers, I know what triggered this attack, but it's the only place here where I don't feel alone. Therefore you are being subjected to my pity story. Just being reminded again that I cannot make life plans because life is not consistent, is so upsetting.

Any encouragement is welcome.

Well as you know you've overdone it, but in my experience the effects of simply overdoing it, whilst obviously making your recovery take longer than it otherwise would have done, are fairly temporary.

The fact that you were able to even contemplate doing all that stuff, never mind actually pull it off, suggests that you're doing pretty well in the grand scheme of things :)

And as a fellow football concussion victim I found it helpful last summer to contrast the behaviour, skill and dedication of Jessica Ennis and Sarah Storey with that of John Terry and Wayne Rooney. Made me miss the game much less! :D

Hope that helps :winky:

Peacheys..

I know exactly how you are feeling the frustration with the NHS timescales and the sense of yet another set back.

I am 1 year into this and still waiting to have a specialist consultation. Because of my post injury balance problems - I fell down the stairs and hit my head a few times and got taken in to A&E overnight. My GP has now decided that after the last fall he will actually now start treating me and give me some tablets to alleviate the balance problems.

I seem to have recovered better from my last fall - now that I know what to expect and to recover. Much the same with a setback knowing what caused it and how to recover seems to be the only way forward.

1 year in I am much better than I was at 6 months.It does get better albeit slowly and sometimes with out noticing it.

Hang on in there