You want to watch it, but whoa the emotional wringer it puts you through is unreal... It's Sports Relief time folks.
Whenever I hear 'Everybody wants to rule the world' I cry and that was the theme song from the very first Sports Relief all those years ago when Lenny Henry was still a young man.
For the last four weeks I have sat and cried my way through Thursday nights as I've watched 'Dancing on Wheels' and then Eddie Izzard running his 43 marathons. I won't be able to be to hear a certain piece of music without thinking of the lovely Harry and Ms Gale dancing anymore. I can't think what the song is called, but I will always remember his beautiful face as he gazed up from his wheelchair into Ms Gale's eyes every time I hear it. And then of course there was the handsome James and gorgeous Caroline who won the title and went to Tel Avie to represent UK... gosh they were fab and boy could he move.
Once I stopped crying from that show, I would start all over again from watching Eddie's amazing feat. The man was amazing and I have no idea how much my phone bill will be from sponsoring him through a veil of tears at the end of each show, but my god he earned every penny. I can not imagine how he found the strength to run day after day especially when in pain.
Watching 'Sports Relief' tonight made me realise how lucky I am. If I had been born in an African country, I probably would have been dead by now.
I have the sole use of a £3,000 oxygen unit which is on loan to me and if that isn't enough it's filled regularly for free too, plus I have the latest model concentrator just for my use too. Plus I have a team of physios that beat me up twice a week either at my home or at the local hospital. Yet I lust over a new dress which I'll probably only wear once, where a £5 mozzie net would be used every night and day in these third world countries and save so much suffering. I am ashamed of myself at times, because I forget how lucky I really am.
Please don't forget to donate to Sports Relief if you read this.
Lots of love Debbie x
About Me
- Me...Debbie Burden... or known as Burders
- I'll be 55 this August... I've had bronchiectasis for ten years plus this year... End stage lung disease for the past year...been on oxygen for three years... and have I got used to it yet?... nah! I am now waiting for the biggie; a double lung and maybe a heart transplant. I love my life weirdly enough, because I have some wonderful family and friends who are with me every step of the way on my adventures, even though I embarrass them on a daily basis with my unorthodox way of looking at life. Not for the faint hearted!
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