Found 29 entries tagged with “disability”
- The eyes have it
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Posted 19 April ‘08
One of the symptoms of FSH muscular dystrophy is having difficulty being able to close your eyes properly. I can’t speak for all FSHers but personally I can’t close them fully. - A kettle! A DVD! A CD! 6
Posted 16 October ‘07
Hi. My name’s Timmargh and I like to dress up as a gorilla and dig for worms in the garden whilst humming “My Baby Just Cares For Me” by Nina Simone. - B.A.D.D. 2007 3
Posted 1 May ‘07
I’ve been incredibly remiss and haven’t written anything for this year’s Blogging Against Disablism Day … which is today! - The test drive 6
Posted 18 October ‘06
As I mentioned previously, yesterday I took a test drive in a vehicle fitted with the controls I’m hoping to get for my new car and it went well. - Driving assessment 17
Posted 29 June ‘06
My driving assessment I mentioned earlier is at 1 o’clock this afternoon and I can’t fucking wait! - Time to get up … erm … help? (UPDATED) 10
Posted 4 June ‘06
It has been just over three months since I took delivery of my all-singing-all-dancing-super-Ninja-shit-kicking bed … and now it’s broken. Bollocks. - What it is I’m aiming for 12
Posted 1 June ‘06
No, I haven’t bought a sniper rifle and decided to go after the people on The List. Not yet anyway … - Adding my voice 7
Posted 1 May ‘06
Well, today’s the big day: Blogging Against Disablism Day. I’m not entirely sure about what I want to write, so I’ll just let it leak out of my head onto the keyboard. - Blogging Against Disablism Day (BADD), 1st May 2006 0
Posted 19 April ‘06
That silver (or should that be gold?) tongued wonder know as The Goldfish has come up with an interesting idea … - The Ouch Podcast 0
Posted 7 April ‘06
Ouch! is the online disability magazine featuring “news, opinion and humour” and the people there have created the first of what is promised to be a monthly podcast. - Rotoflex-o-rama! 13
Posted 17 March ‘06
I’ve mentioned my new bed on more than one occasion on here (what do you mean I haven’t shut up about it?) so I thought it was time to take a few pictures to show you its loveliness. Unfortunately, because of its size and where it is in my room (i.e. the middle) I couldn’t get back far enough to get it all in one frame, and my attempts at a panoramic shot failed miserably. So, what’s a man to do? Why, of course: video it! - My second night … 7
Posted 1 March ‘06
… went much better! - My first night … 5
Posted 28 February ‘06
… on my new bed! First things first: I didn’t sleep very well. - Ah … at last! 5
Posted 27 February ‘06
The bed has arrived. I am happy. Make the most of it … - Some good news at last 2
Posted 22 February ‘06
I got a ‘phone call this morning (which N answered) and was reliably informed that my new bed will be delivered at around 10 o’clock on Monday morning. - Have you seen this man? 4
Posted 1 February ‘06
I’m actually ahead of myself for once in my life and, with N’s help, managed to apply for and get my new “disabled person’s parking card” before my current one expired - this sort of organisation and preparation is virtually unknown in my life. - I’m smiling again 10
Posted 8 December ‘05
And this time it’s a BIG smile. - Look: I’m smiling! 6
Posted 24 October ‘05
I’ve had a really good day today and I thought I’d write it all down before I get grumpy or cheesed off about the weather or something like that. - Lightening the “burden” 14
Posted 20 October ‘05
I smiled somewhat after reading Lady Bracknell’s guest blogger entry on the Ouch! blog, and also had a giggle at the editor’s note at the end. - Carer? Not anymore, guv … 7
Posted 16 September ‘05
About five years ago, me and N decided to get a place and move in together. At the time, I was living with my parents and she had her own flat. She sold her flat and we moved into a warden controlled, disabled adapted bungalow in Kidderminster and lived as friends, crip and carer. - Foot. Car. Revisited. 0
Posted 2 September ‘05
I had two hospital appointments yesterday: one at 10 o’clock in the morning for an arterial leg scan and another at 2.30 to see the vascular surgeon. - Worcester’s Guild Hall gets disabled access 2
Posted 25 August ‘05
I’m not usually a campaigner for places to improve their disabled access, but I was pleased to see BBC news website. - Heart drug for muscular dystrophy 5
Posted 20 July ‘05
I have a different form of muscular dystrophy (FSH) but this is still damn good news. - Foot. Car. 5
Posted 5 July ‘05
Sorry for the lack of activity around here lately - several factors have contributed to this. - Ooh, I’m famous 27
Posted 15 June ‘05
I forgot to mention: I was mentioned on the BBC’s Ouch! magazine weblog blogwatch - fame at last! - Pressure sores and my life 8
Posted 4 June ‘05
Now you probably thinking “Oh, bloody hell! He’s gonna get all whiny on us …” but, no, I’m not - I’m simply going to start opening up a bit and this is the place I’m going to do it. As the recently-changed blurb at the top of the page says: “A mix of observations on life with muscular dystrophy interspersed with amateurish CSS and Mac OS X tips.” Note the word used is “observations”, not “complaints”. - FSH Muscular Dystrophy 36
Posted 25 April ‘05
I have muscular dystrophy and, if I’m honest, it’s a bitch and I fucking hate it. I still have a decent (albeit twisted) mind and enough friends and family to ensure an active social life, though. So what if I can’t get up those stairs? There’s bound to be someone around who could drag me up by my hair. Using a wheelchair virutally guarantees a good view at any live event and I can park almost any where I want. But, I still hate it. - “We must destroy the doctor!” 2
Posted 2 February ‘05
I was thinking the other day about the different equipment I own and use to make my life easier. It was prompted by me having the four batteries in my two tracking hoists replaced, batteries which can usually be bought for around 8GBP each but which cost the company who replaced them 90GBP and cost the housing company 500GBP to have them fitted! - I could go for miles and miles and miles and … 3
Posted 18 January ‘05
When I got my first car way back in January 1990 I was a 16 year-old learning to drive and between then and passing my test in May I covered over 3 thousand miles. Between passing my test and the following January I covered another 17 thousand or so miles. For the next how-ever-many years I averaged between 14 and 20 thousand mile per year. How is it now then that after owning my current car for over two years has it only just reached 10 thousand miles?