Where have I been? Why have I not written anything in ages? In truth, I really don’t know. The last few weeks and months, I have been in one hell of a pain spike followed […]
Tag: Chronic pain
The loss of my mother – 20 years later…..
Today marks 20 years since the death of my mother. Those words sound so normal, so every day, so ordinary, but to me they are tip of the emotional iceberg surrounding sudden loss of my […]
Playing odd man out? Not today! – reminiscences of an accessible holiday…..
As the time of writing this morning, I’m intending on spending the day catching up with my recorded programmes on the TV. Why am I sat here in front of the tellybox? Well, to […]
“Me and my wheelchair” – an essential yet ‘interesting’ relationship……
“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 […]
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 […]
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