Road to Recovery
How Would you Cope Being in a Wheelchair for a Day?
This is a question some of us ask ourselves when we meet people in wheelchairs in everyday life, perhaps imagining what it would be like to be in their position. I remember my husband once telling me that as part of his training with Mencap, he spent three hours in a wheelchair to gain perspective…
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Stick Stigma
Hello, I thought I would write a blog to take my mind away from tomorrow’s launch party and the stomach-lurching thought that I’m making a speech! Don’t pity the stick! I often talk about the stigma of mental health, but there are many things that have stigma surrounding them that I think we only notice…
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My Husband Calls Me ‘Screwfix’…
Being brave about spinal fusion
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After effects of SCI (spinal cord injury)
So, this week I thought I would share a post about my recovery and in particular where I am at today with spasms caused by my SCI (Spinal Cord Injury). Firstly, I am very fortunate to have made such an amazing recovery and am grateful every day, since I know many others who sadly haven’t…
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Recovery in progress…
My wheelchair adventures didn’t get off to a great start when I was winched via a hoist into my new wheelchair. I must have looked like a crushed bug dangling there, but Martin found it very amusing and I growled angrily when he asked if he could video the occasion! No, I definitely did NOT want this…
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Eh up! We’re off to Sheffield!
Having waited for nearly 7 weeks to hear the news that I was going to Sheffield (Specialist Spinal Unit), I burst into tears when I finally received the news which felt like all my Christmas’s had come at once! I was literally elated. Bizarre, considering I had no idea where and what I was going to, but…
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Extraordinary Effort Brings Small Miracles
A miracle is making the ordinary become ‘extraordinary’…..
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Sometimes The Worst Place To Be Is Inside Your Own Head…
This blog is probably the hardest of all blogs to write since I will share how my tragic accident happened that broke my back. I made it my goal to verbally share what caused the accident with the ladies in my Tropic team once I was out of the hospital. That time has now been…
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All time low
Now let’s get to the shittiest and lowest experience of all and then we can hopefully move on to some more light-hearted and positive moments of my journey in subsequent blogs. I believe it was mid-August and around Cromer Carnival day which was also when my hubby was at his busiest in our café. The morning…
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The Minions
I am known as the ‘google’ queen in our household and having read studies on visualisation and it’s scientifically proven results, in hand with conversations with a friend of mine who visited to give me some ‘healing’ I decided to focus on some self-healing and visualisation techniques. I started to visualise minions (yes from Despicable Me)…
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