Pick Me Up! 09-May-2019

Quick as a flash, my hubby Jason snatched my phone from my hands. ‘It’s yours, if you give us a kiss,’ he grinned. Cheeky blighter! Jason was always pulling stuff like that, but secretly I loved it. I’d met Jason when I was 21, and as cheesy as it sounds it was love at first sight. Though his teasing could drive me mad, he cracked me up too. But Jason’s not just a joker. He dotes on our two kids, and since last June he’s really gone above and beyond. See our youngest child Ben, 10, was diagnosed with epilepsy. It was a total shock to all of us, and while I cried and worried, Jason kept me strong. He’s been a real superhero to all of us, but especially…

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Grabbing a pen from the coffee table, I yanked it down the inside of the cast I’d had fitted around my left leg. Scratching the skin, I groaned with relief. It was September 2018, and three weeks earlier a horse I was riding at the stables where I worked had got spooked and tipped me into a ditch. I’d broken my ankle and was cooped up at my parents’ while I recovered. I normally lived with my boyfriend Ben, 26, and our son Joshua, 6. As I reached for the kettle, everything seemed in slow motion But Ben was working long shifts as a plasterer out of town, and staying with his parents nearer to work. So it had made sense for me and Joshua to stay with my mum…

Finally, though - a week later - I was able to go home. But it was a long road to recovery and I really struggled to cope. It wasn’t just the physical problem of not being able to get around the house, cook or dress myself. I was in constant pain and my confidence was completely shattered. Counselling has helped me come to terms with what happened I was living in fear of having another seizure, of hurting myself again. But other than trying to recognise when a fit was coming, there wasn’t much I could do. Mum, Dad, Ben and Harvey all rallied round, tried to make sure there was someone in the house with me all the time. For five months, I couldn’t even sit down or lie…

Holding his baby sister in his arms, my son Jacob, 7, was mesmerised. His grin spread from ear to ear, as he held her tiny hand. It was spring 1988, and my darling Samantha - my second child and first daughter - had just been born. Samantha and Jacob were inseparable from the start. ‘I want cuddles now,’ Jacob would moan if anyone was holding the baby for too long. As Samantha got older, Jacob was the first to make her smile and he was there when she said her first word. Then, when she learnt to walk, Samantha followed her brother around like a shadow. ‘So adorable,’ my friends cooed, when we took them to the park after school. Together, we’d go to the soft-play gym or we’d sit…

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