After a lifetime of steroid and drug abuse. The two years I spent in bed, paralyzed from the waist down, bedridden, unable to move or do anything for myself were the most humiliating of my life. I was looked after by 24hr nurses who bathed me. I was so weak I could not even lift my arms off the bed or my head off the pillow. Doctors coming to see me every week telling me I would be brain-dead, never walk again, never father a child, my ultimate dream and if I did survive would spend the rest of my living days in a wheelchair. All I could do is stair at the ceiling and I spent my days counting the tiles in the ceiling back and forth nonstop just to keep my mind occupied and to this day I count everything, every step I take, every mouth full I chew and everything around me and this does my head in. I spent the next five years in a wheel chair which too was humiliating especially after being a top athlete my entire life, I use to wheel myself down the streets with everyone staring at me and talking about me, till one day I was in the high street of Rye where my parents lived and a bunch of kids started throwing this at me and laughing and calling me a cripple. I went home that night and told my father, I don’t care what it costs but get me the best Physio-Therapist I’m teaching myself to walk again. My father replied saying Spyk, your legs are dead they wanted to amputate them and surgeon told you, you would never walk again, and I said yes I will. I started doing Physio and it was the most painful thing I had ever experienced. After a year and a half of gruelling work, I walked again and truly felt like I had a future for the first time in a long time, I now walk with a limp as my left leg is totally paralyzed and my right leg at 60%, but I’m walking. When I finally was able to get out of bed, my father took me to see a top Psychiatrist whom I saw for the next six months trying to put a stop to this, and after six months of seeing him he told me, Spyk you are beyond help, but the only therapy that may help you is if you go home from here and start writing down anything and everything that comes to your mind, your feelings, emotions, memories, anything that comes to your mind and I said to her, Im an athlete Ive never written a word in my life and she said trust me, do it. And I went home and started writing and wrote non stop for 5-6 hours and found it so therapeutic and for the next couple of years I wrote everyday for a couple hours and thats how my book came about A Naughty Thing Called Life by Papa Spyk. One of the main reasons for writing my book, is to show all these people around the world who are stuck in wheelchairs, that if you want to get out of that chair, you can and its bloody hard work but only you can do it. . . Papa Spyk Get your copy here. . . lulu/shop/papa-spyk/a-naughty-thing-called-lifethe-complete-story/paperback/product-21221567.html
Posted on: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 19:51:57 +0000
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