Hello to you all, I hope your Christmas and New Year went well, and you all managed to enjoy yourselves. Now 2013 is upon us, I thought it would be a good idea to take a look at last year...
Continue readingHello to you all, I hope your Christmas and New Year went well, and you all managed to enjoy yourselves. Now 2013 is upon us, I thought it would be a good idea to take a look at last year...
Continue readingWelcome to another blog post from 'My Brain Lesion and Me'! This month, the folks at WEGO Health are concentrating on 'Health Activism in Real Life'. So, instead of the focus on being on online support groups or on those like me who blog regarding a particular health condition or cause the focus is instead on those organisations or even on specific people who use the more face-to-face approach to health activism. This could include any of the following: Non-Profit Organisations, i.e. charitable...
Continue readingImage: http://abledis.com I think I have previously mentioned that I was taking part in a fantastic project entitled the '12-12-12 Project: 12 Month, 12 Journeys, 12 Lessons' over at my great friend Marissa's blog, Abledis. As part of the project, Marissa featured my condition - long-standing brain stem lesion and spastic paraparesis on her website, learning all about it, and the effects it has on my life and so on. Also, Marissa asked me to complete a podcast interview with her about...
Continue readingIn the madness of the Writer's Challenge that I have been taken part in that I have forgotten to mention that a very special friend of mine who has her own blog is completing a special project for her blog abledis.com. Marissa, like myself suffers with chronic dizziness, and was diagnosed with a debilitating vestibular disorder and set up her website "with the intention of documenting my life living with a hidden disability". For those who aren't familiar with...
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