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MOVING FORWARD INTO 2021 I Will Make It Sparkle LOU LOU LIVING Written by Pamela Dalseno
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s 2021 has unfolded into the New Year It is perhaps ahead that our focus is a little hazy if truth be known and admitted.
My year 2020 saw me spend a great deal of time in isolation and not because of Covid-19 but due to my own personal struggle with health which does need me to be wary because of my low immunity having an auto immune disease which can be such a balance of struggling between the ups of good healthy feeling days and the down of low unwell days. I wonder how you have begun this challenging New Year 2021. Life has been uncertain with Covid-19 amongst all of us and how it has changed our lives is surely for us to realise how special and loved we really are each and every day. We need to LOVE each other so we are able to keep stepping to find our way through this new way of life with the pandemic.
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During the latter quarter of 2020 my own health declined and saw me undergoing a second knee replacement which is major surgery and recovery. The grinding of bone on bone pain and the difficulty of mobility could no longer be tolerated and although I knew of the added complications of a debilitating immune disease it was a choice I knew I needed to brave up to endure and take the chance for a better improved future. Let me assure you reading this it is no easy feat and an extremely emotional painful recovery of personal endurance. I do know you experience much thinking time and whilst exercising, resting and recovering I viewed what was happening around our world. Sadly I watched the world around me struggling with the growing concern and escalating with the Virus Covid-19 across our globe. I felt so grateful that I lived in North Queensland, Australia where we have been barely touched by the harshness that our southern states had to conform to with restrictions implemented to cope with the spread to find manageable recovery. Meanwhile I was looking on how the world was suffering and it was difficult to believe of such tragedy. Just the same I was cautious with hygiene and social distancing as required and I did feel the isolation because of my own difficulties and my only outings were to medical assessments with GP’s, Surgeon, Pathology, X Rays and the wonderful Team of Physio Therapists at the Private Hospital Rehabilitation where of course all was strict with the protocol required. I’ve moved forward to private physio therapy and grateful that I can do these visits
