“It’s like I’ve lost my right arm” said a good friend of mine after disaster struck and his wheelchair broke down in the middle of our holiday in Cyprus. I chatted with him about it […]
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Newly disabled, now I see the world in a different way, writing about the weird and wonderful things I see from under the ‘invisibility cloak' of my wheelchair
Sorry but it’s the end of the medication road…..
The NHS at 70, 70 whole years of free healthcare, that’s what has been all over the tv screens this week, a truly incredible system of universal healthcare which, I believe, is the UK’s finest […]
The Breath, the Dress and the Release of the Stress………
I was sat in the hairdressers getting my hair sorted before our holiday and the stylist asks me her usual question “So what have you been up to lately?” Well, I had a quick think […]
So where did I go? – the world through the ‘brain fog’……
I feel like I’ve just woken up from a coma this morning; it’s now precisely 13.09 and I’ve just managed to open my eyes. With my bleary, first thing in the morning/afternoon vision, I spy activity […]
Life is looking up suddenly……..
I’m sitting here in the warmth of my caravan (more about that a little later!) looking out through the drizzle and all I can see are mountains, fields and gambolling little lambs. After a very […]
Am I depressed or just fed up? Tricky………?
Where to start this week? As the title suggests, it’s all been a bit tricky. Being without a kitchen, living in the passage with the fridge in a bedroom full of boxes and a never-ending, […]
So what the hell does make me happy then….?
Reading all the posts on Facebook and Twitter this week about #WorldHappinessDay, I could see all the things that made others feel happy and things they felt grateful for. It’s not been a good week […]
So that was “The Beast from the East” eh……?
I’m sitting here on the bed in the only room seemingly without half a kitchen in it, with the sound of sledgehammers crashing into the soon to be gone kitchen wall ringing in my ears. […]
“How’s the building work going…..??”
“How’s the building work going……???” This is a question I have been asked so many times lately, not really surprising seeing as that was the first ‘adaptation‘ when we found our lovely bungalow. When we […]
Is having a disabled partner a burden…..???
After my last, loving and caring post, a completely different theme this week….. I was scrolling through my emails and tweets the other day and came across the notification of a podcast on BBC Ouch. […]
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