Izi May | Pukekohe

“I’m Izi May and I live in Pukekohe. Probably look for a new job, get back into my fitness after having surgery and probably be able to spend some more time with my family as well, because I don’t get to see them that much at the moment, and yeah, I think that’s the main things. 

So I grew up in Auckland in Glendowie, my parents split up when I was young, and that caused a lot of problems and stuff, and they’re both with new partners, and family is really important to me and trying to spend more time with them. Because I’m down in Pukekohe, and I’m working full time, my mum’s in Glendowie, my dad’s up in Riverhead, so it’s very hard with us all working during the week to organise time on the weekends. My Dad’s also got two young kids, as well, which are five and seven, so he’s always busy doing all the activities on the weekend, and so just trying to cut out some certain dates in the calendar when we can actually spend some time together, and make it like a set thing, so that we kind of don’t have other plans pop up in the way of that. I also have lots of problems with my health, I went in for an exploration surgery, and they found a really large amount of endometriosis in me, which they had to remove, and they also had to remove part of my bowel. So, I haven’t been able to do anything physical since I had it a month ago, and I’ve got another two months before I can do anything. So then I really want to start getting back on track, and being able to do some normal stuff again.

Well, it’s an interesting thing, endometriosis, because it’s not physical. You can’t see it, and it’s one of those things where they have to cancel everything else out before they diagnose you with it. So, they do blood tests. They do STI tests. They keep asking you if you’re pregnant, and it kind of is like the last resort, sort of thing, and then even before the surgery they said that they couldn’t find anything in the ultrasound, and to be prepared for them not find anything, and then finally they went in and they found a whole lot of it, and I was kind of like; told you so, sort of thing. So now that that’s done, it’s quite good, but it’s hard as well, like with mental illness and stuff, because it’s something you can’t physically see. So, people ignore it a lot. I also have borderline personality disorder and ADD, depression, anxiety. You know, the list, and that does stop me from doing normal things, and because people can’t see it, they often, you now, tell you to get over it, or whatever, which you can’t, and it’s a bit difficult trying to get people to understand stuff like that, sometimes. So, in the future, well I’m kind of not cut out for the office sort of lifestyle. It’s not really me sitting still with the ADD and everything, so I’m looking at the moment into making my own dog-walking job or my own company, hopefully. I’ve just a lot to do with that, but that will be something I enjoy a lot more and won’t feel like work.”