avatarAdrienne Beaumont

Summary

The author reflects on a personal journey, drawing parallels between their early life in a hospital and their current experience in a different hospital, highlighting the cyclical nature of life's challenges and growth.

Abstract

The author shares a poignant reflection on their life's journey, which has brought them back to a hospital setting in Brisbane, echoing their early life experience. Seventy-two years prior, they were a patient at Brisbane Women's Hospital, unable to walk

Freewriting Friday— Full Circle

An easy one for me

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I have come full circle. 72 years ago I was in a hospital named Brisbane Women’s Hospital. I couldn’t walk. I couldn’t get out of bed. I wore a nappy which I happily pooped and peed. I had to have soft foods — mother’s milk.

Today I am in a hospital named Brisbane Private Hospital. Oh have I come up in the world! I couldn’t walk. I couldn’t get out of bed. I wore a nappy which I happily pee- ah what bliss! I have to have soft foods because I can’t chew. Soup, ice cream, jelly, custard, fruit salad -yum! Someone opened my mouth too wide during surgery and damaged my jaw. Ouch!

Is this full circle enough?

Thanks to Ellie Jacobson for the prompt. This was hard as I’m struggling to put two words together.

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