So I had a(nother) denervation in August, since when I am pleased to report my back/leg pain has been a lot better ( Read more... )

*Today's Thought from the Tea, which, like so many of them could be an excellent Bruce/Tony (MCU) prompt.

Bit of a blip since I posted the Poll (which is still open if anyone else - theemdash, msmoat, starkandbanner, anyone - wants to give feedback) since my godmother chose to tell me (at my Mum's birthday party!) that I'm basically ruining her life and she should be ( Read more... )

With Gareth Malone's Invictus Choir (the first episode not only made me cry, but also made me phone my parents to make sure they knew they are the only reason I am still here after 12 years of disability), the ads with HM The Queen, HRH Prince Harry of Wales and Mr and Mrs Barack Obama being all "Bring it!" etc etc is it ME?? Or should the Invictus ( Read more... )

Because the last ten days or so have SUCKED - between my back/mobility and then my mood taking a nose dive into the Mariana Trench (anyone living with Capital-D-Depression will know the experience of feeling that you have to hit rock bottom *sometime*, there can't be much further to go ( Read more... )

I have two more appointments at St Thomas's Hospital, Westminster, London. On 22nd October and 2nd November - for diagnostic procedures, not treatment. (The first appt was on 2nd October - what is it with my new consultant and the number 2 ( Read more... )

It's been a long arsed day. Had to leave home at 11am in order to go to St Thomas's Hospital (Westminster, London) and didn't get in again until 8pm, thanks to the doctor running late and hitting rush hour and Friday night traffic all the way home. I'm knackered. And hurting. And double-dosing ( Read more... )

esteefeehas done me the ginormous honour of dedicating fic to me for my birthday. I love it and I love her.

Run, do not walk, to go and read "On a Bad Day".

It's an SGA AU, John/Rodney established relationship, but honestly? I don't think you need to know the characters or the fandom to find this beautiful.

John is disabled due to a hip injury... and esteefee ( Read more... )

A disabled woman with a degenerative disease has become the first female quadriplegic to sail solo around Britain.

Especially in the wake of Gatefail and its associated assumptions and attitudes about and towards disability, I find this news story - on my front page when I logged in tonight - truly inspirational and hopeful.

To me it proves that as ( Read more... )

I haven't been online much - or posted at all - lately, thanks to another bad spell with my back. When I have been able to sit at the computer, I've been absorbed, upset and derailed by the goings on in GateFail 2009. If you are not yet aware of what's been going on, there are a number of posts about it in ( Read more... )