2006 Archive 11: Some Stability
Yay, 2006. A good year. Ok, it started badly with a horrible vomiting virus, an early neurological relapse, I went deaf in one ear, got diagnosd…
2005 Archive 10: Regrouping
The new year blues were getting me down, the words in my mind swirling around – brown, frown, ground, flat, crushed, bruised and battered … My…
2004 Archive 9: Scary Progression
Continuing from a dire 2003, I had a diabolical first half to 2004 – colds, laryngitis, pesky infections, yet another relapse in May so, back to…
2003 Archive 8: Harsh Realities
2003 was the new ‘norm’ for a year in the life of my illness. In January, I woke up one morning to find that my face…
2002 Archive 7: Living my new life
2002 was to be the year where I began to live my reconstructed life. The spectre of immediate death receded to be replaced by the reality…
Advertising and Disability
Two ads, two different approaches to disability inclusion. In the Add-Victor campaign, above, disability is presented as something ‘normal’ and part of the mainstream. In the…
2000/2001 Archive 6: Stability
After our Canadian holiday, medically, life was quiet for almost eighteen months. I was stable; eyes, hands, arms, all recovered. We took the opportunity to get…
1999/2000 Archive 5: My Nadir
January 1999: I guess we all have nightmares about this kind of moment – total body paralysis with speech and vision deterioration and a fully functioning…
Stiletto Wheels 