The Girl Who Fell From The Sky by Emma Carey

Author:Emma Carey [Carey, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781761065781
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2022-07-21T05:00:00+00:00

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FAMILY

One of the many side effects of nearly dying is that your ability to filter the things that really matter from the ones that don’t increases drastically. Things that used to be hazy shades of grey become stark black and whites. Situations that seemed all-encompassing suddenly hold much less weight. There’s an unspoken superpower in the worst having already happened; it enables you to see clearly.

A habit I’ve adopted since my accident is frequently taking the time to look around and ask myself a simple question: ‘Would this have mattered to me when I was in hospital?’

What I’m essentially asking is, ‘Would this have mattered to me even when my world was falling apart?’ If the answer is yes, I know I’ve found something I need to put all my love and time into. I’ve come to learn there’s only a few things that ever seem to make this list: my health, the safety of my loved ones and, most of all, my family.

I will never forget the way my family rallied around me when I needed them. It’s easy to take the people we love the most for granted when we are so used to seeing them every day. When life is passing in the monotonous and repetitive way it often does, we can forget just how special it is to have a select few people who will always be on our team. I know not everyone is lucky enough to have that, so finding myself in a situation where having a support system felt essential was like having a spotlight beaming down on my inner circle, reminding me: Here, this is what you have to be thankful for.

Not a day went by, for the entire duration I was in hospital, that my mum wasn’t by my side. She quit her job in Canberra, moved three and a half hours away to Sydney, and spent night after night away from her family in a cheap hotel beside the hospital. At the time I had just expected it; it seemed obvious that she would do that for me in my time of need. But it wasn’t compulsory, it was love.

From the moment she boarded that last-minute flight to Switzerland, not long after receiving a midnight call telling her something was wrong, she hadn’t gone home. She had completely uprooted her life without a moment’s notice and so, in a way not too dissimilar from what I was going through, her world had completely changed as well.

My mum would cook for me and take me out for lunch so I didn’t always have to eat the bland hospital food, she would come to every one of my physio sessions and patiently watch as I did the same movements over and over, she would understand the days when, even though she had no one else to speak to, I didn’t want to say a word. She did every little thing in her power to make what could have been a very dark time a whole lot brighter.

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