Welcome to my first blog. Its time I started talking about all the things that have been happening to me and continue to happen. I think it might be good to give you a bit of a background as to how I have gotten to where I am before telling you all about what’s happening now…
As a child I was quite lonely, I had friends – but those close to me were few and far between and I have never really kept more than a few friends close to me and those are still close to my heart.
So it should be no surprise then I guess that when I started to socialise in college I made the most of it. In my twenties I was a party animal, out most nights of the week and living life to the full in my own way. Drinking more than I should, smoking heavily but at the same time working out at the gym keeping my outside looking good while I abused my body inside. I worked between 40 and 75 hours per week and really lived through my work. I loved it – it gave me a real sense of identity, freedom and again access to more nights out.
I have been on the most amazing journey during the last few years, in particular meeting my wife was course a real mile stone and a life changer I guess you could say. We fell in love quickly, moving in together 5 months later which involved me moving over 200 miles to be together. A decision I haven’t regretted since making it.
I am a proud father to 2 beautiful girls Eloise and Georgia, who like their mum – light up my world every single day. I cannot really remember a time without them and its the most amazing thing to watch them both grow into their own little people.
I guess the story surrounding my illness would start with a series of accidents that have triggered something in my own body.
Firstly I suffered a head injury, I hit my head on a solid metal beam that was the top of our door frame in our first house, I don’t remember much other than being at work and then being at the hospital.
I had a small bleed on the brain – nothing serious apparently but enough to cause me to have slurred speech a dropped left sided face and serious concussion. Next came a car accident that I was incredibly lucky to walk away from.It shook my whole body and I remember the sensation of my eyeballs shaking and the glass shattering from behind. Just awful.
I started to get the oral ulcers after the accident, so I figure that this is what started the behcets disease.