• 2013,  freedom,  frustrations,  NaNoWriMo,  powerchair,  Quickie Salsa,  so you had a bad day,  trains,  Uncategorized,  writing

    A Properly Poorly Powerchair

    November 5, 2013

    I’ve got a poorly powerchair. I’ve known for a fe weeks that it didn’t feel right but I couldn’t put together what was wrong with it. Then mum and I went to Oxford to see The Mousetrap and on our way to the station afterwards (I had gone in early for drinks with a friend) she said the back of my chair struck her as wrong. When we got back to the station she had a properly look as we had time before the train and said she wasn’t sure. But I mentioned that I’d thought it felt off and had had a feeling it was something on the front…

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  • 2013,  acceptance,  access,  argh,  attitudes,  CP related,  difficulties,  disability,  drama,  frustrations,  powerchair,  Quickie Salsa,  ranting,  sarcasm,  so you had a bad day,  things people say,  Uncategorized,  wheelchair

    A word of advice

    February 28, 2013

    For those who don’t know me. Don’t try offering me unsolicited advice or helpful suggestions about my wheelchair and then go off on me when I tell you’re wrong and calmly explain the reasons why I do what I do and/or can’t do anything else. Telling me where you saw me cross the road is dangerous is one thing. Repeatedly screeching at me that I’m going to get myself killed when I tell you its the only place I can is upsetting. And talking to me like I’m stupid and telling me that I do have a choice and could cross the road elsewhere is another that shouldn’t happen. Suggesting…

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  • 2012,  acceptance,  access,  advocacy,  Attempts at World Domination,  Cheerful Stuff,  depression,  disability,  discrimination,  so you had a bad day,  songs of my life,  Uncategorized

    Loser Like Me

    June 30, 2012

    This entry may come across as cagy. It is deliberately so. I’ve been dealing with a completely ridiculous access fail for the past 12 weeks. Basically it’s done a complete number on my self confidence and depression, serving as a weekly reminder every Thursday that I’m different and that I’m not worthy of what everyone else has. Twelve weeks of being told they’d made a decision to do X about including me and then suddenly two weeks later we’ll do Y or oh no Z instead. It is dealt with. I’m not exactly enamoured with the reasonable adjustment type solution they’ve come with. Full the same as everyone else access…

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  • awareness,  BADD,  disability,  so you had a bad day,  Uncategorized

    >So you had a BADD day

    April 28, 2010

    >I’ve got loads and loads to blog about and I’m definitely going to catch up tomorrow.  But I just wanted to remind people that Blogging Against Disablism Day 2010 is this Saturday.  Please pass the message on and take part if you want to/can.  It’s really important and it’s usually interesting and good fun. Today I was chatting to the hygienist when I went for a double whammy dentist and hygienist appointment back to back thing. She asked what I’d been up to and I said I’d been swimming this morning.  So she was chattering away about how she likes to swim but doesn’t go often, which pool had I…

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  • so you had a bad day,  Uncategorized

    >Emma and the no good, horrible, terrible day.

    December 8, 2009

    >So today: I had trouble getting out of bed and waking up again I got a t-shirt caught round the wheel of my powerchair Had to resort to cutting said t-shirt in two to get it out but thankfully didn’t damage my chair Was later than I planned getting to the bureau because of the above. Was asked to advise rather than doing my SP which I didn’t mind (especially as I had a good client) but which always throws me off. Broke the zip on my relatively new handbag and it can’t be fixed Sent loads of things flying in the supermarket. Had a random nose bleed Discovered I’d…

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