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Four months of living alone
Four months of living alone
I’ve been living on my own for four months now. Can you believe it? Four. Months. In that time I’ve been very restrained and only been to IKEA twice, fallen and cut my head open once (I’m fine by the way), and used a dishwasher for the first time in my life. You’d think after 30 years of living with cerebral palsy I’d have learned to manage my energy levels in a way that keeps my pain levels to…
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I moved out!
I did it! I finally moved out of my mum’s house. Not only did I move out, but I’ve moved away. I’ve gone from West Yorkshire to South Yorkshire. I’ve wanted to move out ever since I had to move back home at the end of university. Moving back in was never part of The Plan, let alone being there for another nine years. I always assumed I’d move away for work. I haven’t. I’ve moved away for *me*.…
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More than just an empty tub of moisturiser
More than just an empty tub of moisturiser
What do you see when you look at this photo?
It’s okay, you can be honest: it’s a poorly-taken picture of an empty moisturiser tub.
Well, that’s probably what it looks like to you, but to me it symbolises so much more.
It symbolises strength, healing, growth, courage, self-worth, kindness and hope, to name but a few things.
Let me explain.
I’ve had a..fairly rocky…shall we say,…
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A love letter to Gossip Girl (and a moan about chronic pain)
A love letter to Gossip Girl (and a moan about chronic pain)
Today is the fourth bad cerebral palsy day I’ve had in a row. I am sore, I am grumpy and I am tired. And, I’ll admit it, I’d kinda forgotten just how draining it is to have increased pain levels over ‘prolonged’ period of time.
And.
It.
Sucks.
I’ve had far more than four bad CP days in a row before, so this technically isn’t anything new. I should be a pro at dealing with this now.…
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I jinxed it...
I jinxed it…
Do you remember that bit in my previous blog post where I said that my hip and pelvis pain had been so much better since I’d been staying at home all the time?
Well, I think I jinxed it, because guess who started having a pain flare the day after I wrote it?
Yup, that’d be me.
My pelvis pain is back and making itself felt and I am most displeased.
It’s not the worst flare I’ve had in…
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It's already been a long year...
It’s already been a long year…
Hello, hello – how are you all? I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who feels as though 2020 has lasted about three years already and we’re only just halfway through. Those of you who follow me on Twitter might be aware that my daddied of cancer a few weeks ago. I won’t go into too many details here as he wouldn’t want me to. I’ll only say that he got diagnosed in 2019 and passed away peacefully…
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A PIP decision, a permanent job, and a new consultant
A PIP decision, a permanent job, and a new consultant
Okay, I admit it. It has been so long since I last updated this blog that I couldn’t remember my login details. I may have forgotten those, but I hadn’t actually forgotten View from a Walking Frame, the people who read it, or that an update was long overdue. I could spend ages writing a rambling apology, but instead I thought I’d just get straight into updating you all on everything that happened…
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How my PIP assessment went
How my PIP assessment went
N.B. Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is a benefit in the UK that helps disabled people cover the extra living costs they incur as a result of their impairments, such as needing to pay for a care team or buy pre-cooked food.
My PIP assessment was actually a positive experience. Yes, you read that right. It was a positive experience for me, and I am stunned.
While I wasn’t anxious or stressedi…
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Two days until my PIP assessment
Two days until my PIP assessment
N.B. Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is a benefit in the UK that helps disabled people cover the extra living costs they incur as a result of their impairments, such as needing to pay for a care team or buy pre-cooked food.
Usually, an event like a PIP assessment would send my anxiety into overdrive weeks in advance, but with just two days to go all I feel is indifferent. If anything, I am…
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A Life Without Limits by Sir Bert Massie (book review)
A Life Without Limits by Sir Bert Massie (book review)
Let me start this review by saying that I knew nothing about Sir Bert Massie before I read his memoir. I recognised his name, but I didn’t know why I recognised it. Basically, I’ve grown up seeing the results of his extensive campaigning all around me without knowing it.
For those of you who are as unsure as I was, Sir Bert was a disability rights activist who grew in 1950s Liverpool and…
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Do I seem anxious to you?
Do I seem anxious to you?
“You’re not anxious, are you? You always seem quite confident.”
My jaw must’ve hit the floor, “Oh, yeah,” I replied, trying not to laugh, as I often do when I’m shocked. “I’ve had anxiety for years, I just manage it with drugs and therapy.”
This is a genuine conversation I had with someone this week after I mentioned something triggering my anxiety. I wish I could remember what I’d actually said.…
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Mental health update for #MentalHealthAwarnessWeek2019
It’s been a while since I’ve given you an update on how my mental health is, and this week is Mental Health Awareness Week 2019, so now seems like a fitting time to bring you all up to speed.
A bit of background about my mental health
Long time readers of this blog might remember that I’ve struggled with anxiety which manifests itself as what I call ‘OCD-type tendencies’since I was about eight or…
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Life update: Applying for PIP, another new job and my Mystery Hip Pain returns
Life update: Applying for PIP, another new job and my Mystery Hip Pain returns
Hi everyone,
I hope life’s treating you well?
I can’t quite believe that we’re in April already, and I’m sure I some of you can’t either. I started yet another new job at work in March! Yep, that’s right, the girl who couldn’t get a job at all has had three different ones in under a year! I can’t quite believe it. I’m still at the same place, and it’s another temporary contract, but it’s also a…
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Things I learned in January 2019
Things I learned in January 2019
So, January 2019 was hella busy. I started a new job, travelled to London by myself for the first time, got a temporary ‘new’ wheelchair, celebrated my birthday, celebrated Rob’s birthday, celebrated two other birthdays in my friendship group and still somehow found the time to read/listen to eight books/audiobooks.
Needless to say, I’ve learned a lot, about myself and about managing my…
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#ThingsILearnedtoAccept
The above hashtag has been trending on Twitter today. I soon as I saw it I knew that I just had to contribute. The differences between how I think and feel about my disability, and perhaps more importantly, how I thought others think and felt abut my cerebral palsy, have changed drastically over the past two years since I started filming Employable Me.
It’s been a year since the series aired now…
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2019: A new year, a new job and a new wheelchair on the way
2019: A new year, a new job and a new wheelchair on the way
Hello everyone, and Happy New Year. I actually meant to write this post way before now, but those of you who’ve been reading this blog for a few years will know that New Year is a massive anxiety trigger for me, what the all the pressure to become a better person, achieve more, eat less chocolate, blah, blah, blah; so I decided to lie low on social media until all the fuss had died down.
Anyway!
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Getting on my soapbox about why attitudes towards sex and disability need to change. Again.
Getting on my soapbox about why attitudes towards sex and disability need to change. Again.
Yet again I’ve found myself getting on my Twitter soapbox about why attitudes towards disability and sex need to change.
You’re probably all bored of me talking about this by now, but if you’re not, you can head on over to my profile to see the whole thread of tweets I made. Here’s the first one for you:
https://twitter.com/NicolaG01/status/1067525780396285954
Believe it or not, I’m actually…
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