A Person With A Disability Can Do It To!

Hi again everyone,

So I know that is has been such a long time since my last post but I have been pretty flat out, taking on a whole new life routine but I have decided it is time to get back into it. Back to writing, back to expressing my deepest darkest thoughts.

So how have we all been? All well I hope. Things have been going well here in my little house hold. A lot has changed over the past 12 months. As you are all well aware, I began work over a year ago now, I have gone from working an 8 hour week to a 30 hour week and have also gone from being just an Admin Girl to an Employment Consultant, or as I like to say a DES Officer (sounds much more like an authority figure) Disability Employment Services Officer! I am loving my job and have been going from strength to strength (well I think I have been). In my short period I have learnt a lot and have been thrown into the deep end on many occasion but I think I am in the industry that I am meant to be in. It combines all of the three different professions I had been considering whilst I was just sitting on my bum doing nothing. I know I have none of these qualification (yet) but my job is part teacher, part counsellor, part disability activist. The only thing this job doesn't have is fish (marine biology) but I am working on that.

It is such a hard task heading back to work as a single mother. I am working, studying, doing the school run and all the other activities, playing and trying to spend quality time with my lil man, trying to keep up with all of the house hold stuff like cleaning and cooking and then at the end of the day wondering why I am sooooo exhausted.
Then there is your social life? What social life might I ask, Family, Friends? I know I you are all still out there and I am trying to find the time to catch up.
Then you have those days when your child is sick! AHHH What do you do? Now I have commitments with work and a sick child on my hands and there is only one of me? Luckily my work is pretty understanding and I can work from home most days and on the days that I can't my beautiful, wonderful amazing parents have been there to help out. And then there are the school holidays! The holidays just gone my Dad and my lil man barely spent a day apart so that I could work. Love you Dad! Both my Mum and my Dad are so supportive of me and help me out as much as they can, given that they both work full time. My Grandparents too, both in there 80's, will babysit when ever they can or whenever I need. They keep their cupboards stocked up with goodies for the lil man and he loves going there to spend time with them. Knowing that my family are there to help is such an amazing feeling and I have to admit I come from some pretty damn good stock!!!

It was a client of mine that made a comment the other day and so many other things have happened at work to prompt me to get back into writing my blog but his comment was that I am showing and proving to the general public that people with a disability can have and live a normal life. I asked him "what is a normal life" he rephrased his comment and just simply said," a person with a disability can do it to!"
And he is right!