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…
Atomos at the Sadlers Wells
I love going to the Sadlers Wells: it’s both wonderfully accessible and the UK’s leading modern dance venue. For a wheelchair user, there are well positioned…
Promove Slings
One of the biggest hassles for those of us who cannot stand is being stuck in our wheelchairs – or, even worse, being bed bound –…
2012 Archive 17: An Uncomfortable Year
I write these annual health updates to keep a log of how my illness progresses year on year. It’s so easy to forget as time passes,…
Recommending Birkdale Neuro-Physiotherapy Clinic
My physio, Farshideh Bondarenko, is expanding into newer, bigger, premises. It’s been a longtime ambition of hers to do this and she will be providing additional,…
2011 Archive 16: Chronic Ill-Health
2011: not my worst year but oh, so far from my best, with a series of niggling problems, two relapses necessitating hospital treatment and ending with…
2010 Archive 15: My Reality Sucks
I haven’t been writing so much in 2010 because life has been frustrating due to a series of small setbacks that have merged and forced my…
2009 Archive 14: Sweating The Small Stuff
Welcome to my annual health update – please, suck it up. I need some record of how my illness is progressing – better here than in…
Stiletto Wheels 