I cannot remember a time in my life without her. I do remember the first time we met though, anything before was just a life in neutral I guess! Coasting along my merry way oblivious to reality. My only goals in life were either going play football for Liverpool FC (EPL) or play waterpolo. This by the way (Waterpolo) is an amateur sport! Pretty switched on don’t you think.
She was well tanned from her summer holiday at The Entrance. I was to find out later it was a family tradition that I was going to enjoy as time rolled by. We were both 16 and looking at the last two years of school. Our futures lay ahead, pending HSC results and work opportunities. For me it didn’t matter, one way or another, all I knew was I was never ever going to live another day without her in my life.
Life was bliss, Both of us still having the safety net of living at home with our parents and I being naive enough to think that this was how live was going to be for the rest of my life. I think it was until the day of our graduation that it hit. I no longer was a school kid. Captain of the swim and water polo team. Striker for the open soccer and centre for the first XIII league team. CHS Sports man of the year two years in a row. It was time to get a job. No more sponging of my parents. Grow up and be a man. I had always pictured my life the way it had been for the last 2 years. I was in panic mode where was the love of my life (the Rock) going to be? What career would she take, I’m sure we had discussed it several times, but I was so besotted with I was only listening with my heart not my ears and brain or maybe something else. They were shelved from that do fourth. I was going to do anything to ensure I was always going to have her in my life. It was then that I gave up my dreams of being professional sports men. Don’t be mistaken, while naive to the world I was one shit hot swimmer and Captain of the Australian U18’s water polo team. I was also good enough to make as a soccer and league player but my life laid a separate path.
Well as fate would find it my rock was training as a nurse in our local base hospital, which meant I could see her every day. I found nothing jobs like scrapping out chicken poop on battery farms, swimming coach and working in fast food outlets. I was trading my life for a life with her. The hope was still there, the dream as well, but I was never ever let anything get between me and my rock. I had made my bed and I had no intension to sleep anywhere else. Please don’t get me wrong I knew the costs I was to pay. If had a $1 for every time I was introduce as (He had it all! He could have been the best) well that’s my choice. I picked my poison, I knew the sacrifice at hand, but it was never in the equation, I’m not saying it didn’t hurt, but I would give my life for her in a heartbeat and I proved that time and time again. Actions speak Loader than words. From that day fourth we carved out our own lives together. The beginning of a love affair that would last the test of time!
We got engaged on her 21st birthday. I was excited and nervous all at the same time. I manage to get enough courage to ask her mother and father for their blessing. They didn’t go easy on me I can tell you that and it would be a story recounted over and over throughout the years at family gatherings. An easy laugh at my expense. I’ve broad shoulders though, but those shoulders and back would take a beating over the years. Too many hard labouring jobs and too many injuries that were not taken care of properly. I thought I was bullet proof. I was tough (stupid as well you might say). But I was one tough S.O.B and should also add we needed the money. You start to get the picture now. A good education would have come in handy right about now. The injuries I sustained throughout my sporting era were now coming back to point out there disapproval of my actions.
My Rock was to work her way up through the hospital system to become the head of the maternity floor in an area which average 5 deliveries a day. In between having giving birth to the three children we have, studying for a Bachelor of Health Care Management plus holding down a full time job, You can see the foundation upon which I reference to her being a Rock. I love her so much! When she comes home from work my heart skips a beat. It’s just like the first time we met.
Ok, you remember the reference to my back. I have been suffering from back pain (Sciatica Pain) on and off over the last 20 years. Especially over the last year. After a fall trying doing do a job for a younger guy, I burst a disk in my lower back. I become addicted to morphine; I’ve tried suicide on two occasions, attacked a doctor and have been scheduled into a hospital for mental health issues predominately because of the levels of medication it took to stop the pain. The whole time this happened she managed to get the kids organised, Hold down a full time job and cared for me.
My wife is my life along with my 3 children. Yes I paid a very high price to get to where we are now. Yes it’s been a rough ride. I couldn’t imagine life without her.
She was well tanned from her summer holiday at The Entrance. I was to find out later it was a family tradition that I was going to enjoy as time rolled by. We were both 16 and looking at the last two years of school. Our futures lay ahead, pending HSC results and work opportunities. For me it didn’t matter, one way or another, all I knew was I was never ever going to live another day without her in my life.
Life was bliss, Both of us still having the safety net of living at home with our parents and I being naive enough to think that this was how live was going to be for the rest of my life. I think it was until the day of our graduation that it hit. I no longer was a school kid. Captain of the swim and water polo team. Striker for the open soccer and centre for the first XIII league team. CHS Sports man of the year two years in a row. It was time to get a job. No more sponging of my parents. Grow up and be a man. I had always pictured my life the way it had been for the last 2 years. I was in panic mode where was the love of my life (the Rock) going to be? What career would she take, I’m sure we had discussed it several times, but I was so besotted with I was only listening with my heart not my ears and brain or maybe something else. They were shelved from that do fourth. I was going to do anything to ensure I was always going to have her in my life. It was then that I gave up my dreams of being professional sports men. Don’t be mistaken, while naive to the world I was one shit hot swimmer and Captain of the Australian U18’s water polo team. I was also good enough to make as a soccer and league player but my life laid a separate path.
Well as fate would find it my rock was training as a nurse in our local base hospital, which meant I could see her every day. I found nothing jobs like scrapping out chicken poop on battery farms, swimming coach and working in fast food outlets. I was trading my life for a life with her. The hope was still there, the dream as well, but I was never ever let anything get between me and my rock. I had made my bed and I had no intension to sleep anywhere else. Please don’t get me wrong I knew the costs I was to pay. If had a $1 for every time I was introduce as (He had it all! He could have been the best) well that’s my choice. I picked my poison, I knew the sacrifice at hand, but it was never in the equation, I’m not saying it didn’t hurt, but I would give my life for her in a heartbeat and I proved that time and time again. Actions speak Loader than words. From that day fourth we carved out our own lives together. The beginning of a love affair that would last the test of time!
We got engaged on her 21st birthday. I was excited and nervous all at the same time. I manage to get enough courage to ask her mother and father for their blessing. They didn’t go easy on me I can tell you that and it would be a story recounted over and over throughout the years at family gatherings. An easy laugh at my expense. I’ve broad shoulders though, but those shoulders and back would take a beating over the years. Too many hard labouring jobs and too many injuries that were not taken care of properly. I thought I was bullet proof. I was tough (stupid as well you might say). But I was one tough S.O.B and should also add we needed the money. You start to get the picture now. A good education would have come in handy right about now. The injuries I sustained throughout my sporting era were now coming back to point out there disapproval of my actions.
My Rock was to work her way up through the hospital system to become the head of the maternity floor in an area which average 5 deliveries a day. In between having giving birth to the three children we have, studying for a Bachelor of Health Care Management plus holding down a full time job, You can see the foundation upon which I reference to her being a Rock. I love her so much! When she comes home from work my heart skips a beat. It’s just like the first time we met.
Ok, you remember the reference to my back. I have been suffering from back pain (Sciatica Pain) on and off over the last 20 years. Especially over the last year. After a fall trying doing do a job for a younger guy, I burst a disk in my lower back. I become addicted to morphine; I’ve tried suicide on two occasions, attacked a doctor and have been scheduled into a hospital for mental health issues predominately because of the levels of medication it took to stop the pain. The whole time this happened she managed to get the kids organised, Hold down a full time job and cared for me.
My wife is my life along with my 3 children. Yes I paid a very high price to get to where we are now. Yes it’s been a rough ride. I couldn’t imagine life without her.
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