Dear all cleaning and maintenance staff at Cabot Circus, Bristol, I’m writing this to request that the batteries for the hoist in the Changing Places toilet in Glass House be checked and charged more regularly, after an unfortunate incident on Wednesday; namely the hoist running out of charge mid use. I was in the hoist […]
Ableism is defined in the dictionary as “discrimination in favour of able bodied people”. Funnily enough, for a long time even in my position with a disability, this kind of discrimination wasn’t something I’d experienced so directly and in a way that frustrated and upset me more than when I began my quest to become […]
For those of you that follow my blog, you’ll remember that back in September last year, I braved a visit to my GP for the first time since moving into my new home as was really struggling with my back pain. Struggling as in tears most nights, lack of sleep, irritable and lacking energy and […]
You’ll remember in my previous post that last week was a pretty positive week for two important reasons, and I left you hanging with regards to the second. I think it’s about time I fill you in… On Tuesday, thanks to a mutual friend who knows about my desire to be a writer in some […]
I’ve been having a pretty positive week in two major ways, and this is a post about the first of those, a follow up to one I wrote last month. In said post, I talked about my battle with back pain as a result of my disability, and its effect on my mental health. I […]
When you’re living with my form of Cerebral Palsy, you find that the physical problems often have a massive impact on your mental health. Being confined to my wheelchair most of the day means two things: your range of movement is limited so your muscles become weak as they aren’t being used – in my […]
In my intro to my new feature “Life On Four Wheels” in my previous post, you might remember me saying that I tend to shy away from talking about life with my disability for fear of people thinking I was “oversharing” as aspects of it are pretty personal and intimate. I don’t want to scare […]
Wheelie Stagey 