Claptrap from a one armed Black Chap: SO SO Worth The Wait!!

Tuesday 3 June 2014

SO SO Worth The Wait!!

So sorry everyone but I seemed to have stolen Lloydie's blog for good so here I am again... he will come back I promise and no I've not locked him away from the computer!!

But I was trawling through my Facebook posts the other day and I came across the attached link to when Jaja (pronounced Jayjay) appeared live on BBC Breakfast News and I am so so proud I felt compelled to post it here as well.

We received the phone call from the Beeb the night before asking if Jaja would be prepared to appear at 7 o'clock the following morning and they would send a car for him. Needless to say he was delighted and agreed immediately. Now having appeared on live TV I have to admit to being somewhat dubious but I needn't have been... just judge for yourselves. Sorry that the quality is poor but I had to film it on his iPhone from our TV (which obviously I'd set to record) so it is a touch grainy but it was the only way I could do it.

And this is the reason our book Dreams Do Come True is so important to us, because I can't even find the words to say the depth of pride we felt as a family as our little boy undertook the immense pressure, I for one was beaming inside and out at his courage, and this was the first time he'd been alone on live TV WOW what a natural.

For those who don't know, it took us 12 years of IVF treatment to have this young man and boy he was worth the wait. Everyone who desires to be a parent as much as we did deserves the right to be one, he has totally enriched all our lives beyond anything we could have imagined and the love we feel for him is totally immeasurable - HE is our life!

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I suppose I could say it's all in the title 'Claptrap from a one armed Black Chap' but if I expect you to follow my blog then I feel that it's only right that I tell you more about myself.

I don't need you to know who I am and where I've been in order to justify or give credibility to the things I say because if something needs to be said I will say it. I have a viewpoint and I'm not afraid to use it as my wife Trudie often points out....There you see, you now know that I am married, 27 years in fact. 12 of those years were spent going through IVF treatment in order to realise our dream of having a baby and that baby is now a handsome young man of 14 who goes by the name of Jaja (pronounced Jay Jay and means 'Gift from God').

We wrote a book about our 12 year struggle with infertility and the financial problems we encountered that culminated in me being made Bankrupt 4 years ago...see there's something else you now know about me! Bankrupt and an author... The book is called 'Dreams Do Come True' and is available to buy at Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dreams-Do-Come-True-Bankruptcy/dp/190829308X/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1391956997&sr=1-2&keywords=dreams+do+come+true and can be ordered through WH Smiths and Waterstones. according to the many reviews it's a great read so check it out. (This is my Blog so I'll plug my book if I want to!)

I suppose you may be wondering what the 'one armed black chap' stuff is all about and maybe you think I'm a bit strange? No? You weren't wondering?....then it's you that's strange!

I was born in this country to Jamaican parents and that's where the black bit comes in. I contracted Polio as a child and that's where the one armed bit came in. I do actually have two whole arms but one of them doesn't really work and is only really useful for filling out the left sleeves of my clothes. I suppose my fingers were useful at school when I needed to count to more than 5 before the invention of calculators but the arm was no help to me as I learned to swim. I just worked extra hard with my legs and good arm to stop myself from swimming around in circles and there you get the first clue as to who and what 'The one armed Black Chap' is all about....

I'm all about getting on with living my life! I don't need or seek any sympathy for anything that has occurred in my life that others may see as being a disadvantage to me! I never look at another person and wish I was in their shoes instead of mine!

People have asked "what was it like being the only black boy in a school of 2000 pupils?" I say brilliant! I was special, everyone knew who I was! "What was it like growing up with a disability?" I say "I don't have a disability but I know what you mean and again it was brilliant, it made me double special!

In later years people have wondered how we survived 27 years in a mixed race marriage and 12 years on IVF but we look at it as a journey that prepared us for the wonderful outcome that was our precious son.

Friends and family alike think I should be bitter and vengeful of the circumstances surrounding my bankruptcy but like I said 'I don't do looking back and lamenting what if or if only because I made the choices that led to the outcome of every area of my life and being a true believer in 'The Law of Attraction' I know that my living reality is of my own making. I am in complete control of my own destiny.

So that's me and mine in a nutshell. I have a lot to say (hence the blog) a lot of it tongue in cheek because I like to look for the good and funny side of everything because I really do believe that everything you can think of has a good side and if you look carefully enough you can always come up with a funny side too...

Don't believe me? Follow my Blog and eventually you will see that it's not all claptrap from the One Armed Black Chap as I do speak sense from time to time.

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Tuesday 3 June 2014

SO SO Worth The Wait!!

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