Reversing the role

Hi!

Sorry I haven’t been posting lately, I’ve been focusing on settling into my new job. It has been brilliant! 😊

I’ll talk about it more some other time but for now I want to talk about “Reversing the Role”

Let me explain…

As I’ve mentioned in recent, previous blog posts, I am living a “normal” life now. I’m doing pretty much everything a woman my age should be doing, despite my condition. Ive been overall pretty healthy and strong and have been able to lead a normal life.

I get the odd pain and sickness now and then but I can manage.

Recently, though, the same can not be said for someone I know. They’ve been struggling with their health recently. I won’t go into detail and I won’t say who it is as they’d rather it kept private, which I appriciate.

This person supported me a lot during my time in and out of hospital. They helped me through the bad times and helped cheer me up when I was low.

Now, it’s my turn to do the same for them.

They’re the patient, I’m the support. It’s weird. But a nice weird. Obviously I don’t like what this person is going through. I’d rather them not go through it at all. But it’s an interesting change to be on the other side. I get an understanding of what it was like for them. I want to support this person as much as I possibly can because they did so for me, throughout all the hard times.

Times have changed. I have no idea what the future holds, that is true. But for the time being, I am the one trying to hold things together and cheer up someone. And it’s a change that gives me the opportunity to be the supportive person that this person needs.