26/09/2026
So… I woke up at 4am this morning and cried my bloody eyes out. 😂
Not because I was in pain — actually, the complete opposite.
I moved my head left… then right. 🤯
Then, just to make sure I wasn’t dreaming, I put my arms over my head, lifted my shoulder up and down and rotated it forwards and backwards.
NO PAIN.
After nearly 4 years, apparently I have a neck and shoulders that actually move! 😂🙌
It sounds like such a stupid little thing until you haven’t been able to do it properly for years.
The damage originally happened around 10 years ago, but over the last 3–4 years things slowly got worse — numb hands, pins and needles, loss of strength and pain running down the left side of my body.
And because I’m obviously an intelligent, responsible adult… I did what any sensible man would do.
I ignored it. 😂🤦♂️
Truthfully, I was s**t scared of finding out what was actually wrong.
Turns out, ignoring things doesn’t magically fix them. Who knew? 😂
Eventually a little incident involving my son’s PB50 decided the matter for me. It threw me off, cricked my neck and landed me in hospital.
Not exactly the diagnostic procedure I would recommend. 😂
But that accident led to the scans and finally finding the real problem — collapsed discs around C3, C4 and C5 putting pressure on my spinal cord.
Suddenly all those years of symptoms made sense.
And that brings me back to 4am this morning…
Standing there moving my neck and shoulder around like an absolute idiot, probably looking like I’d just discovered a new dance move, with tears running down my face. 😂❤️
Because for the first time in years…
I wasn’t in pain.
You don’t realise how much constant pain takes from you until, one morning, it isn’t there.
So today there’s no big dramatic message.
I’m just incredibly bloody grateful.
Grateful for my family.
Grateful for everyone who has supported me.
Grateful for the doctors and people who helped get me here.
And above everything else…
Thank you, God. 🙏
There’s still recovery ahead, but this morning I got a little piece of my life back.
And apparently I can look left and right again… so everybody better behave because I can see you now. 😂😂
Onwards and upwards. ❤️🙏