Yin and the yang

You can’t have one without the other - I’ve always wondered whether sadness also serves to make us truly appreciate the happy moments - it is all too easy to take certain things for granted and occasionally we need reminding of this

I always took for granted the ease at which I could walk, never gave it a second thought until two years ago yesterday I had back surgery to prevent me from being paralysed from the waist down - had no idea my sciatic pain was an indication of a broken spinal disc impinging and slowly killing the nerves to my bladder and legs - a sports injury gone bad - I was a very lucky lady to have caught it just in time