My babies.

Can you share a positive example of where you’ve felt loved?

Animals give a love like no other. One we don’t deserve.

They see me in a way no one else sees me.

We truly don’t deserve animals.

Image Description: Myself lay in bed smiling at my grey cat who is on my knee behind them is Imogen Labrador and next to my head is Bella my caviler King Charles

Christmas evening

I want to say that I spent it alone, but that’s not true because I spent it with my girls, enjoying a curry.

And while this was my choice it doesn’t always feel like it was my choice to make, more like a choice that happened to me. Not that that makes sense from the outside.

In order for me to stay with my family I would have had to sleep in my wheelchair, and that is just something I did not want to do.

So you could say I chose not to spend the night with my family, or you could say I chose to be comfortable. It just frustrates me that I had to choose one over the other.

It seems my choice will always be my own comfort or the comfort of those around me. It feels like I will never be in a situation where it will be possible for all of us to be comfortable. And I’m always the one expected to make the sacrifice. I chose not to make that sacrifice tonight and my reward for holding to my word is being away from my family.

It’s not that I blame my family for this just that I wish the world was more accessible to me so that these choices didn’t have to be made. Or maybe it is that I blame my family and I just don’t want to recognize it. I honestly don’t know.

At home alone.

So when the person I live with is out, I cancel my care call because the dogs are difficult for me to deal with on there own.

They were out tonight, so I got in bed a lot later than usual, and spent most of the night in my room with my fur babies.

Unfortunately, they knocked off the bed, which I use as a sort of table when I’m not in it, a lot of my things. And as I was home alone I was unable to pick them up, so they were stuck on the floor. This and a combination of me getting caught in some of my charger wires, meant that I was stuck in the same place in my room until they got home.

Now I can’t hold this against the person I live with, they obviously deserve a break. But it highlights to me just how much I need the person I live d with, and how inaccessibile living on my own would be.

Now the easiest answer if I wanted to live on my owm, would be to not live with dogs. But I would rather give up this small form of independence, for my doggies.

Some things are worth giving up independence for. They definitely are.

And it is best for me, and my babies, and also the person I live with funnily enough, that we live together.

Below I have included a picture of my girls that was taken tonight.

Image Description: Bella, a brown Caviler King Charles, lay asleep on a bed next to Immy, a golden labrador who is also asleep. There is a flag on the wall which can partially be seen behind them, and a pink cost next to Immy on the right of the photo.