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…

1998 Archive 4: Time passes slowly

1998 was a year that felt like a decade to me. What did I learn? 1. Exploratory medical tests are often painful, uncomfortable and undignified. I…

1998 Archive 3: Pulmonary Embolus

It was a Wednesday morning. The doorbell rang. I hear EaZyD rushing down the stairs shouting for help. EaZyD seemed to be panicking – most unlike…

1997 Archive 2: My symptoms progress

I noticed the first clear symptoms in January 1997 – pins and needles in both feet that did not go away. Poor footwear, a back problem? …

1997 Archive 1: Life Change

For most of us life is good…until it isn’t. Even then, generally, things get better and then worse again, then better and so it goes. It’s…

Holidays Are Hell

Thank goodness it’s the end of the holiday season. No more ‘have you been away,’ or ‘what you need is a good holiday, why don’t you…’…