I have been a very active person my whole life, always working in charity work and actually taking on more than I could handle. Often we would have as many as 10 children living with us because their parents were having problems and also working around the clock with my own charity, animo, helping severely physically disabled children through therapeutic riding. We had some 40 children, 9 horses and around 40 volunteers. Everybody needed something and it seemed I was to provide it. NOw after my time in hospital and starting to make the speech rounds I seemed to be back at work and people wanted it to be like it was before. Well it isn-t. I have a new board of directors and I am out and we have a new center in Almeria which is much closer to the children that need help and to our physio and our psychologist and doctors. The new center is perfect because it is already a riding school with ponies and horses plus a small petting zoo for the children while they wait their turn. I our old center, which was my house, we got butrned very badly in the fire 4 years ago and we havent finished the repairs yet. Over 700 trees burnt and lost. Now my friend and I have build a new stable, purpose built and here, at home, we train the horses to do our new type of therapy to help people with problems like withdrawal from the medication like chemo and radiation, Pred. and many others with horrible side effects. improve circulation and digestion and so many other things. You would have to read about the animo=albero therapy on my blog to understand what I am talking about. Once again I find myself in the situation of people coming to me and say my son needs help or I need help can you please help me+ I have such a hard time saying no but my friend and I were very strict when we started this that this would be no one down for a pony ride and if they needed help they could go to the center in Almeria. It has been very hard but I have to work on my own health first They don-t understand the depth of this disease ans I think I am just coming around to see just how devastating it can be; so I have to learn to say no. I feel so guilty everytine I say no but my work is really important to help me and many others with vascular disease and side effects from medication. So from now on I am serious about saying NO.
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