Diary Entry – 20th April 2024

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Welcome to todays diary entry! Today was a roller coaster of emotions for me personally. With this diary entry obviously 99% of the time is it about us and our travels and what is happening in our lives at that time and occasionally i use it as a bit of an outlet for me personally and i try and keep it as real as possible, about our experiences. Some times stuff happens and sometimes not much happens but hopefully there is enough in there to keep you coming back often. I have talked in these diary entry on occasions about my own life experiences about the trauma of the birth of the beef and the following 21 days as sometimes it is easier to write it what i think down instead of verbalising it. I have also shared the situation with my Mum in here as well as she plays an almighty part in our lives. Which in todays diary is the reason it was such an emotional day for me. But lets get to start of the day and take it from there….

We ended up having a few welcome home drinks last night which was nice and just nice to be back in ultra familiar surroundings but me and my sister woke were up early this about 07:30 and decided to take her dog for a walk, think she does that most Saturday and take her dog to see me Mm and her dog. So we walked down there and probably spent almost and hour there just chatting about anything and everything we then headed back up to my sisters for about 9am and by the time we had got back to the camper the Beef was still asleep. He was on his feet all day yesterday and just had an absolute whale of a time walking from room to room clapping and carrying on. Chasing the dogs around and playing with dog toys. He had an absolute ball and by the time he went sleep at 9pm didn’t move all night so he must have needed it.

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The plan was to meet in the Whippet at 13:00 for a drink then get a taxi to the game. My Mums mobility isn’t great but it isn’t extremely bad and she now has a walking stick to help her. To be fair Stoke were dead good and they let us park right by the ground and we didn’t have to walk too much to get to where we were sat. You could see that my Mum was anxious and i have to say that her bravery and strength in doing what she had done to completely go out of her comfort zone to come here to see Beefs first match and first match with my nephews made her emotional and i think before the game had started i had already gotten upset myself with the motion of it all. My Mum used to go to the games a lot in her younger days and this is probably the first match that she has been in 15 years. This was a massive game anyway for Stoke in what is sometimes liberally called a six pointer but this definitely was and i just knew somehow we were going to get a result. It was in the script, today was just one of those days that i just knew nothing would tarnish it for me.

After the game Stoke took us over to the dug out to have some nice pictures taken and once again they were brilliant with everything. I always remembered at my Nans house many years ago there was a picture on the wall in the hall ways that had my nan, grandad, Dad, Uncle and 2 aunties and i wanted these pictures to be the equivalent for me. My Mum was shattered after the game but trying to get a taxi at that point is impossible because of the volume of footfall so me and my Mum went and sat on a bench by the Stanley Matthews statue and we just cuddled on that bench for maybe 15 minutes, inevitably i got upset again. It flits from anger to sadness because it just isn’t fair, there will be people who will say that unfortunately life isn’t fair. Which i get, but for a woman who has done everything she can for her children, worked as a nurse for 20+ years to get this disease, well, it just isn’t fair. And she is a much much stronger person than me for that. So i will always cherish that bench and one day, when it will just be me on it i will spend 20 minutes on this bench to remember this day.

With nothing but happiness, Stoke won 3-0 as well.

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