I started using a wheelchair around about a year ago. Since then, I haven’t really been able to use it all that much, other than for trips to the supermarket and walks in the nearby area. But recently, thanks to living in the EU and being fully vaccinated, I was able to take myself and… More My first time travelling with a wheelchair
Sometimes non-disabled people will ask me, ‘what do you do all day?’ If I don’t work, surely I have to do something. And I always find this question difficult to answer because saying “not much” is not true, even though, often, I haven’t ‘achieved’ anything specific. Some days, all I do is lie in bed… More Crip Time, my timey-wimey disabled existence
A couple of nights ago, just before I was about to go to bed, I started getting a creeping uneasy feeling, that turned into a fully-fledged paranoia that I was going to get thrombosis, have a blood clot, and then a stroke. It was something that I then spent the next couple of hours obssessing… More Health anxiety – I’m terrified of getting sick
I don’t really believe in laziness. At least, not when the term is used around me, or when I use it myself. It’s not really even used to mean laziness, but rather a plethora of other, very different things, often in the form of unseen barriers. I know that when I call myself lazy, usually… More But are you REALLY lazy?
As someone who lives abroad, with most of my close friends also living internationally, before the corona pandemic, I was quite a frequent traveller. Even during the pandemic I have twice needed to travel back to the UK (safely of course). Long journeys, and travelling in general, are no easy feat when you have an… More The Sunflower Lanyard Scheme and why I love it!
It’s my birthday on Thursday. I am turning 26. I am a really big fan of birthdays, and love making other people’s birthdays special, but when it comes to mine, I have mixed feelings. Chronically ill birthday’s are a little different. Don’t get me wrong, I’m looking forward to having cake, and having something to… More Chronically ill birthday reflections
Today is International (working) women’s day, so what better day to talk about a book that left a huge impression on me: Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick by Maya Dusenbery. When I first became sick, I noticed that a lot more women than men… More Doing Harm by Maya Dusenbery – a review for International Women’s Day
I recently asked my good friend Alicia Shearsby to write about her experience of being fat and disabled. I remember very clearly the first time I was confronted with the different treatment that fat and thin people get when Alicia and I went to the doctors together. We were travelling and both had the same… More Fatphobia is a Disability Justice Issue: A personal experience of being fat and disabled in the UK
After four years of faffing, the UK is finally, officially, out of the European Union, and we have been left to deal with the aftermath of a shoddily carried out referendum and withdrawal process. As a disabled UK citizen, living abroad in the EU, the last four years of Brexit indecision have caused a lot… More Brexit, disabled and living in Europe
At the end of 2020, I began to fall out of the helpful habits I had spent the previous two years cultivating. I think a mixture of exhaustion from the cold, and a lack of motivation after being locked down and in isolation since March, started getting to me. But, without those habits, I have… More Helpful habits I want to rekindle in 2021