Walk In My Shoes, Or Not …
Reading one disability campaigner’s blog yesterday, The Big Benefits Row by Sue Marsh, I was, amidst the tale of her truly woeful treatment from our national…
Blossom for Children
I love to promote fab things for those of us with illnesses and disabilities … and there aren’t tons of fab things about when it comes…
Open Day at the Birkdale Neuro-Physio Clinic
I’ve written before – Recommending Birkdale – about my wonderful physio, Farshideh Bondarenko, and, most recently, about her move to larger premises in West London with…
Coronation Street Suicide
I read two thought provoking articles over the weekend discussing some of the issues raised by the current assisted suicide storyline in TV soap drama, Coronation…
2013 Archive 18: A ‘Healthy’ Year
Listening to the rain, sitting here, waiting for my broken iMac to power down, I’m thinking that with just the one hospital treatment week in late…
Help! Wheeling Slopes …
I had tickets to see four events at this year’s London Jazz Festival. Sadly, due to a diabolical cold, I attended only one: the Arild Andersen…
Assisted Dying and Right To Die Legislation
With comments from yet another Lords debate making me think about it, I took a quick look back at previous pieces that I’ve written on the…
Spinal Column: Melanie Reid
I am a regular reader of Melanie Reid’s weekly Spinal Column in The Times Magazine on Saturday. If you are unaware of her, I quote from…
Stiletto Wheels 