Carers, life and isolation...

 Hi guys, it's been such a long time since I blogged - things are tough!

Just like others with disabilities and their carers, we've been living pretty much at home this last year, just trying to keep safe. On the whole we've coped but this enforced isolation has taken a real toll. It's difficult to pinpoint exactly when in the lockdown things began to change but they have! It feels like there's a distinct disconnect from the outside world when you isolate for such a long period of time and I think it'll be scary to start opening back up once this is eventually over.

I've lived such a busy life for so long, meeting people, rushing between meetings and appointments and always had caring responsibilities and health hassles with my Dad and Coo in the mix too and I've always kept spinning those plates and juggling all the balls, just keeping them all up in the air, it's what I know but now...it's all so different. Life has changed!

The caring continues as it always must but everything else in life has kinda stopped. 

I miss the busy-ness of life. That happy chatter in the shops, sharing a smile with a stranger across a busy cafe whilst having a wee cuppa - remember that wee pleasure? Mostly, I miss the tangible and emotional support from other carers, who without any need for discussion, just know how it really is and understand! 

I know everybody is feeling the restrictions on their lives right now and we all have had to dig deep emotionally but spare a thought for Carers, it's been a bit of a double whammy for us, we were already digging deep emotionally before the pandemic even arrived! 

Stay strong and keep hanging on in there!

((hugs))

Maz x