I’ve been hella lucky to have two MRI scans (sense the sarcasm?) within six weeks of each other. I usually have at least one per year and have done since I was a teenager, yet they still bother me. I’m claustrophobic and they freak me out; so a few weeks ago I wrote a post…
Category: chronic pain
Mental Health Is As Important As Physical Health
It’s Mental Health Awareness Week and I wanted to continue the conversation about MH. It’s been a few months since I talked about it, and to be quite honest, I thought I was doing good. Then my physical health took a turn for the worse, and a few things online triggered me and knocked me…
My First Love, The Ableist
Content Warning: Sex, ableism I’ve been pondering about writing this post for a while and although I’ve wanted to get it out there, I was also really wary about reliving this period of my life as it wasn’t the best. At the time, I thought it was perfect, I believed it was how relationships went…
A Positive Message For New Wheelchair Users
A few weeks ago I shared a post called 6 Acts of Kindness I’m Grateful For As A Disabled Person; in that I talked about a few lovely things that strangers had done for me that had really helped me out and made my day easier, brighter, better. At the end of that post, Caroline from…
Favourites from NAIDEX 2017
Last Wednesday I spent the day at the NEC in Birmingham for the NAIDEX exhibition. It was my first time attending and I’ll definitely be going again next year as I had such a good day. I met so many lovely people, saw amazing and innovative products, and spent the day rolling around it awe….
I’m Not ‘A Wheelchair’
Living with a disability means a whole concoction of things; yes, you actually have a disability (or a long list of them), and you find ways of adapting etc. But you also have to handle other people’s views and comments (sometimes nasty and negative) on your condition. I could no doubt write a stupidly long…
6 Acts of Kindness I’m Grateful For As A Disabled Person
I’m first to call-out injustice, crap accessibility, ableism and ignorance. As a disabled person, I experience negativity a lot and it’s really difficult. But I wanted to dedicate this post to the other side of that, I want to tip my hat and wheel spin to those people that are considerate, that do help disabled…
6 Sex Tips for Chronic Pain Sufferers
After writing about sex and disability a few weeks ago, I decided I was going to continue the conversation. You can read my other post here. Now, I’m no expert (or should I say ‘sexpert’?) but I’ve lived with chronic pain for almost twenty years so thought I’d share some tips on having sex whilst…
BBC Three – Things Not To Say To People Who Use Wheelchairs
If you don’t follow me on any of my social media platforms you might not have seen me raving on about how I was in a BBC Three short film. If you’ve not watched it, I urge you to go and do that now, I’ll link it here but I’ve also embedded it down below. Back…
Let’s Get it On: Sex and Disability
Last weekend a journalist came to my house and interviewed me on what it’s like having a sex life whilst disabled. We spent almost two hours discussing this subject that seems to be one of the most controversial and taboo topics when it comes to disability. Obviously I don’t find it unmentionable, or I wouldn’t…