Adapting My Home: Stay Or Move?
In 1998, as a consequence of the rapid onset of a chronic neurological illness, I became a full-time, non-standing, wheelchair user. At the time, I –…
2017 Health Archive 22: Remembering August 2001 …
It’s been twenty years since everything changed for me in terms of my health. 1997 was the last year of my ‘normal’ life. 2017 was the…
RIP Sweet Cousin …
My younger cousin died a couple of days ago, on Sunday 3 December 2017. Whilst not unexpected, being the inevitable culmination of a long illness, all…
Chronic Illness: (T)Rough Rolling
Living a good quality life with chronic illness is as much about maintaining an equable temperament towards the peaks and troughs of persistent relapses as it…
Adaptive Style: Wheeliechix-Chic
In retail, Adaptive Style, that is stylish product for those of us with ‘special’ needs, the purple pound market, is known to be a tricky market…
Stand Up …
You might look at the illustration above and think: Skiing … in July??? But this very short snippet from today’s Times Diary by Patrick Kidd, Stand…
Terror at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith
This is the last weekend to see Terror at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, running to 15 July 2017, and I can only apologise for not writing…
PIP Success
The letter plopped through my postbox over the weekend and I felt like a Gold medal winner at Chelsea – my transfer from DLA to PIP…
Stiletto Wheels 