My 50th Birthday/April Fools Day!............................NOT!

MY BIRTHDAY 1/2  A CENTURY!!!
All Fools Day!

Monday the 1st of April in 2013

 Am I a fool for being born on All Fools Day?
Woopsadaisy! I don't think so!
I got myself ready for my birthday, Janiece and David had a table ready for me at Piccollinos for lunch.
I called a few friends to see if they could find the time to meet me at lunch time for a chat and a coffee!
Bummer!
Monday is the start of your working week!
Everyone had previous engagements! WORK!
C'est la vie!
Ca va, Ce n'est rien!
Not to worry, I'll put a smile on my face.
David collected me, and as we drove into Sheffield I was asking him where Janiece was.
I'm terrible at remembering things?
He told me that Janiece had to go into town to go to the Doctors; or something like that.
As we headed along to Piccollino's, Janiece had already turned up! Smart Eh!
I won't have to hang about and wait as I'll be able to eat early as my tummy was grumbling.
As we walked into the Italian Restraunt, Janiece smiled and started gibbering away at nothing, could I translate anything in my brain!........................NO!
There was a few tables taken and there was a big party table for a 25yr old, it had 2 big 25 Balloons and menus, table decorations, it was plush!
The bar area was very busy, there was a lot of mumbling and all I saw was lots of backs facing me! Rude I thought, at least if they show their faces I may remember someone from before the 19th of July 2011.
 I went to the loo and when I came out my eyes were distracted and I watched a couple at the bar. I thought straight away, "Bloody Heck, She's Tall!" As I got closer to Janiece and David, this lady suddenly turned around and looked at me with the biggest smile.
"Jesus, Bloody Heck, it's YOU!" Emma Douglas from Neurocare Charity!
I gave her the biggest smile and kiss for arriving. I asked her what she was doing in town;-
"Where are you going! Have you been somewhere! How did you know!!"
All the usual Q's & A's required from me.
I just assumed she was in town and she knew that Janiece was going to be here with me for my Birthday!
I just thought, "That's nice"
As we were chatting away at the bar, they kept positioning themselves around me so that I would look the way they wanted me to. Therefore, they stopped me looking over at the door?
I never thought of it that day.
Suddenly someone came up "Close & Personal!"
The fingers came over my eyes, Bloody Heck, it was Miguel with Gemma and Kefae.
I just thought that he must have finished work at Novotel and Gemma & Kefae just popped in to say hi before we all had our lunch.
We started talking about me holding Kefae when he was just born. I felt so proud then to hold him in my arms whilst I was still sick in hospital, that was precious moment for me.
No matter what!
I shall always be there for him, similarly like an adopted mother towards an adopted son.
I whispered to Janiece:-
"They're not making a move to leave yet!; Do you have any money? I've none! I do want to invite them, can I borrow some money to buy them something! Any Chance!"
Suddenly all the mumbling stopped from all the back turned people!
Janiece said quite loudly to me in front of Migel, Gemma & Emma, "Can you remember what you did for my 50th Birthday, about the 50th Balloon!?!?"
I stood there and put my hand up to my mouth and said; "Blooddydyyyyy Heck, I bought you 2x 25Balloons!!" As I started to cry and point at the table all I could say was........"MINE!!!"
Janiece said; "Yes it's yours and so is.........!"
Then all the backs that I seen turned around to face me. O......M.......G!!!
I'm totally GOBSMACKED!!!

This picture was put on FB by Emma Douglas, Neurocare Charity.

Lovely to be able to celebrate Pauline Quinn's 25thx2 birthday party yesterday! x

                                                            GOBSMACKED!!!    

Read me a story please!

 The story is the menu for Paulines Birthday Lunch.

People are lovely these days, they go out of their way to bake me a cake for my Birthday.
THANX CAKE BAKER xxx

We've all had great memories from the past to celebrate our life together again, a wonderous day.

This is Sarah, she's a lovely waitress in Piccollinos with her work colleague, I must go on a course to remember names; it's such a pain for me to remember names.
This is an after effect of my brain injury!
Names are tricky; I usually say; "It starts with an H!" It's usually the most bizzarrest letter to begin with.
It's probably Quintin? (Exaggerating!)

Kefae was enjoying all the food adventures

I LOVE CAKE!!!

YUMMY!

HMMmmmmmmm!

AHhhhhhhhh!

CAKE!!!

     PRESENTS! GIFTS GALORE!

Raphael and Jacob were looking after us beautifully.

A lovely home made veggie Punch and plants

Joao Filipe & Alicja Czubak; it's been great to get back together, like the old days, 1yr and 8mths down the line.

KISSY--LICIOUS!
ThanX Joao & Alicja XXX

This picture was taken via Emma Douglas, Neurocare Charity.

ThanX Emma XXX

Lovely to be able to celebrate Pauline Quinn's 25thx2 birthday party yesterday! x

ThanX All who arrived at my 50th Birthday Party Lunch.
I had a beautiful guest who sat next to me at our lunch,.........Yes, it was Kefae.
Kefae, thanX for your companionship, you make me happy. All my love XXX

THANK YOU:-

Emma Douglas, Grace Enright,  Rebbeca Allen & Patricia Mitchell from Neurocare Charity,
Kefae, Gemma & Miguel Francis, 
June, Sam & Desmond,
Loleita, Alisha, Anthony & Darren,
Aaron, Adrian & Jake,
Alishia, Cody, Sam & Jamie,
Sue Gibbons,
Ian Lewarne,
Sarah, Dea & Ashley,
Andrew & Cristian Concari,
Brenda,
Kay, Stan, Zoe, Heidi, Chico & Lily,
Lianne, Ian, James & Lian,
Paul Winfield,
Helen,
Terry & Marie,
Rosemary,
Deborah, John, Johnathan & Lauren,
Glejorre & Steve,
Pat & David,
Loraine Burgess,
Janiece & David Wallace,

A big thanX via all the accumulated greetings from FaceBook:-

Mark Marky, Ash Selector, Big Fatfreddie Morrison and ALL from the Soul Weekenders,
Friends & Neighbours,
All my colleagues & friends from before and now, I thank you all.
From the bottom of my heart; THANK YOU ALL XXX

 

The Month of March 2013

MARCH 2013

Have you noticed as I have noticed;-
I've read the end of last year and the start of this year to catch up on my blob; Well,,,,,,,,, where was my head at the time!!! The odd words and the pictures and some pages don't even tell you the date and the month, it's definately a wishy-washy-diary!
Sorry readers, it's my Brain Injury or my Lack Of Brain Energy!

Happy Birthday Janiece,
All my love
Pauline XXX

David whisked Janiece away to a beauty of a secret destination for her Birthday, That IS LOVE! <3
On the 2nd, I got invited to Killamarsh from the Killamarshians for a Neuro catch up chat for our Rother Valley Park run and walk on the 21st April 2013.
I may, one of these days, make a necklace with a theme!
Debbie & John Does, Richard the interior designer, Leanne & Ian, Andrew, Sarah, Marie, Janiece & David et Moi!
There was a Soul Musical Evening for us all.

As I was walking home, I looked into a shop window.
I tried the door; it opened.
All of a sudden there was some hair moving from behind the tall reception counter.
Straight away I said, "Can I use the Loo!"
I'd prepared myself and passed him my Headway Card, he smiled and pointed me to the other door and asked if I was ok walking up the stairs! I said "Yes" and ran up the stairs........ relief!!!

When I came back down the stairs with the big grin of relief on my face, he passed out his right hand and said "Simon", I introduced myself as Pauline and we smiled.
Simon asked me about my Brain Injury, as that's what it says on my card. Well............................ it says:-
                                                     I am a Survivor of a Brain Injury
I may have problems with my memory,
speech or actions. Your help and
patience would be appreciated.
Then Simon says to me "LOOK!" as he pulled away at his hair. He told me that his Brain Injury was 9 yrs ago,and he had 2 aneurysms.
His Neurosurgeon was Pr Patel!!!!!!!!!!
WOW!!!
Suddenly a lovely blonde walked out from the back room and all she was saying was; "All I can hear is Mr Patel this and Mr Patel that....... I can't believe that you have had the same Neurosurgeon!!!"
Mr Patel raised money for Simon as he was a Ticking Bomb!
This blonde from the back room is Sarah, they had only just started dating 9 yrs ago and then that was when his Brain Injury occurred. Simon and Sarah looked at myBlob/Blog on the computer.
WoW, what an accidental meeting!
This is amazing!

Daydreaming!

What did you say?

 Derbyshire Forresters

They were all working hard in the grounds of Holmebrook Valley Park.
Imagine all the animals from a cartoon movie and they just want to talk to you. It was amazing the attention that they gave to you. Superb!

A nice wee cuppa char!
As I went on to the internet, in the Library, Paul turned up and gave me an envelope, and quickly dissappeared. All I heard was; "Come and see me before you leave. OK!"
Well when I finished with the internet I decided to look for Paul.
I found him down at the reception.

This is Paul from the Library.

When I got his attention, I asked:
"This envelope; do I leave it shut and pass it onto Emma Douglas at
Neurocare Charity or do I open it up and see what is there???"
Paul says, "Open it up if you fancy doing it"
I opened the envelope and started to cry. Paul had put £50 pounds in it.
That came straight from his wallet. I'm GOBSMACKED!
I ran around to the shop straight away and bought him a card for sponsoring me for walking for Neurocare Charity at Rother Valley Park.
My colleague volunteer's at Ashgate Hospice

This is my friend Raphael he is such a strong worker every day. He sells the BIG ISSUE every day. Raphael does what he can for his mum and the other younger family members.
He's a good lad, Good Luck Raphael. ;-)

Hey Doc!

The pictures are from the month of March, but they just will not play with me, Darn it! I can't turn them round; I very rarely move a picture a little teeny-weeny bit!

The Doc's supporting NHS!

Caberet!

BALLS!

Stan & Kay Padley

Outside the shop where I put Stan Padley's poster.

Where has Spring dissappeared too!

It snows again, how long will this last for.

Do I have enough attention!!! Lovin' it really!

Out with HEADWAY for 10 pin Bowling. Do the pose!

Arrrrrrg, pretty heavy for my arms

 Hey, I don;t know what I'm thinking about here!!!

I went further into town and met up with Matt from Headway, I heard that he was off to the Neurosurgeons meeting that evening with Peter Shaw from Headway North-derbyshire. I went to the local shop quickly and bought a card for Mr Patel, so I ran all the way round to get Simon to write on it. Then I wrote on the card  and also gave the little THANK YOU TEDDY for Matt to pass onto Mr Patel from us. Perfect!
The next day, Sue and I went to Barlow and visited the parish church, it's a 15,000 centuary church.
We went for a coffee and cake, then the waitress said "Hi"
She recognised me from the Neurocare Charity Issue as her friend Kate P had showed her the Issue.
Surprisingly, Kate's sister was Jo my roomie in Osborn 4 in Sheffield. She knows about my blog and my charity 5km walk. I'm surprised how far my picture has gone.

Thursday 7th March 2013
Another day with Sue, I've started to Ramble with the Ramblers in Chesterfield.
I took a thankyou card to the Library for Paul and introduced Sue to my new link to the outside world.
I seen that I had a missed call at 1:45pm, I wondered who it may be?
I waited until all left and I called the number at 5:04pm; Bloody Heck!!!! It's Barbara Rafferty!!! GULP!!!
My head was spinning all over the place, it's been how many years since we met down on Byres Road Eh!

Friday 8th March 2013
I went into the Library and brought up the FB, learning from the internet is a great wealth of information.
It's great to learn that a lot of us have similar after effects from our Brain Injurys.
I saw that someone made a comment about me, as far as New Zealand on FB! WOWSER!!!
I'm learning constantly, I usually go back in time to see what the topic has been that day.


I went back to Killamarsh to celebrate Lianne and Johns Birthday.
We had a Northern Soul Weekender, the group was good.
We danced all night long!


I had a conversation with Mark Marky, we spoke about a Dongle and my returned reply was:-
I giggled as I read "Is that something about.......OOh Err Mrs!"
What a wonderful, nice friend,
I giggled for the rest of the day.

Wednesday 13th March 2013

I was walking into town but unfortunately I met two young men, fresh as Daisies.
They asked if they could talk to me about the lord!
I said:-
"I know him, I've been there and seen him!"
They gave me a bible and their card and asked if they could talk to me. I said "NO"
"Thats too much for me to do! I'm a Catholic and I won't change for anyone, OK!"
I had another meeting with Steve, my Brainy man, and I told him "Not to bother with the reactions that I had gone through." I appologised to Steve and Katie for all the stress that I had put them under and I needed to get rid of it all and they were the ones right in my line of fire.
When you speak to Brain Injured people, there is one word "Control!"
We can talk about this for a long time but I'm fed up with this word.

I went to Headway and I saw the lovely Jenny, she has the same brain injury, memory/time effect.
As I entered the room all of a sudden Jenny said:- "Hello Pauline!"
She had the biggest smile on her own face as she knew that she remembered me!!! WOWSER!!!

I went to a beautiful Christening in Stafford with Dylan, Hannah & Carl.
The money started to have growing feet, which moved towards Neurocare Charity.
Where is Spring!
I spoke to Steve Moslin about my legs, so hopefully he will do his magic on them next week..

Here goes!
See you all in April. XXX

Still on June 2013

Still on June...............

The thing that has been bothering me is my new residents?
I am confused?
They don't pay any rent...................?
They never asked to stay.................?
They just took over.........................?
They have more doors than I doo!

These Flying men of the country.
They are daring and get up to mischief every morning, noon and night!
They help you to move your legs to jiggle and judder with twinges and twirls!
They say......."Sort it out?".....................?
Well...........I.................NEVA!!!
                                                                                                                                    

                                                                                                                                  

X marks the Lodger!

How many legs have I come across, The Tiller Girls!

End Of  The Story!
Pauline Quinn