Honestly, I didn’t think in my fourties I would be walking around with a walking stick.👩‍🦯. My gran doesn’t even have one for goodness sake!

About 2 years ago I gave birth to a girl, Maryam, named after Jesus mother (Arabic for Mary).👶

After 2 weeks the midwife calls me up, hysterically down the phone, “Rakiya quick, pick these antibiotics, you have MRSA!” 😯

If anyone remembers years ago, when MRSA broke out in hospitals and the media coverage was like, ‘Your going to die if you catch it.’ (A little bit like all the hype NOW 😉).

Well, I thought I was going to die. 😢

Before I even started the antibiotics course, my body flared up in every single joint. From my jaw right down to my little toe. Rhematoid Arthritis.🦴

Have you ever walked past a door 🚪and banged your little toe or knee? Arghh. Hold that pain, multiply it by 5, keep it there for 6 hours.

Thats the pain of rhematoid arthritis. Well at least until the steroids have kicked in after 3 hours. Steroids only take the edge off. The pain is still there.

I was bedridden for 10 weeks. 🛌. And there after I’m still stuck in bed, until I have taken a whole host of prescriptions to get me up, every morning.

Ever wondered what it feels like to have a crying new born and not be able to carry her properly? How about getting your bottom wiped, help with brushing your teeth, sucking solids through a straw?🥤

I would phone my mate up Noura Arabi …”Get me some stronger painkillers, these steroids are not working!”💊

My husband lost an amazing job in Merseyrail.🚄. My daughter failed to attend her alima exams and therefore failed the year.🤦‍♀️

The GP visited home once a week, health visitor twice a week, mental heath everyday, social workers…it goes on.

Do you think this typed up message would be here today, if it wasn’t for all these amazing people?🤩

Today, I may wobble when I stand. But trust me, there is nothing worse than knowing you have something valuable to give to the world 🌏 and knowing you can’t give it.

So, just know that when you see me and wonder why it takes me longer to get up out of a chair, or my hands are bandaged up, or you see me with a walking stick (wheelchair👩‍🦽 when its real bad), that I am in serious pain, chronic pain, but this is still a good day. 🌞

The bad days are over. We are here to serve YOU now.🧎‍♀️

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