Marry You

Friday 27th November; my life changed forever.  It started as your average Friday.  David’s carer came in at 8am to get him up and I went off to the gym.  Nothing unusual.  I came back from the gym and spent 4 hours on the phone trying to get tickets for………………………………….

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Getting to Know You

After our first date I had butterflies and was buzzing. I was really looking forward to meeting again. Nicky loves cooking, and suggested that she came over to cook for us here. I asked my carer to leave us to it for the evening, and we had the place to………………………………….

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Unconditionally

I have so much to tell you about.  I’m torn between telling you about the wedding and all the exciting things that are happening.  But I also want to tell you more about the early days of our relationship and how I found myself turning cartwheels around the moon with happiness………………………………….

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Thinking Out Loud

It’s 17 weeks until we get married. 17 WEEKS!!!! How did that happen?!? We’ve still got so much to organise, but recently life has been revolving around sailing and our trip to the World Championships in Holland. David finished in 7th overall (pretty amazing stuff! He thinks he should have………………………………….

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Doin’ the Do!

I believe I promised you all that I would tell you a bit more about a private side of our life.  I’m not sure if I can make a blog post about sex funny and interesting whilst retaining an air of dignity, but I’ll gave it a go! Back in………………………………….

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The Hardest Part

You will know by now that I threw myself into this relationship with every bit of strength I had.  I chose to take on David’s care and I wanted to get heavily involved with sailing and rugby.  We have a fantastic life.  It’s very busy, often exhausting keeping up with………………………………….

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Handle With Care

A new relationship is always exciting; the excitement of discovery, the bliss of love, the newness of learning about each other; it was all that, and more!   But my new relationship came with a whole world of other stuff which would have a massive impact on our lovely new-ness.  Becoming………………………………….

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Learning to Fly

I learned very early on that life with David was never dull.  There was always something going on and I found myself in a new circle of people I met through his activities and interests.  Many of them were also disabled, some with spinal injuries but I also met new………………………………….

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Climb Any Mountain

If this is your first visit to my blog, you might want to start at the very beginning And if you would like to read David’s side of the story, then click here Here we go with post #2! I did have doubts about it all; I’d be lying if………………………………….

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