I hope you dance!

Perhaps my earliest memory was asking my mom why I couldn’t run, a reflection within my childhood consciousness of the notion that I was physically limited by my own broken body. Continue reading

rant about facebook pages

so this blog has a facebook fan page which has some members which i would like to send updates to from time to time (the fan page version of sending a group message) there is a link to do this but my friends on that page inform me that they never get these messages- my question then is why is this there at all? Continue reading

Believing in Life

Whilst culling through some files on my computer I’ve come across some of my 500+ poems which I wrote over the past few years and this one struck me as something worth sharing (copyright this blog owner please don’t reproduce or share without my written permission )

Believing in Life

Through my eyes

I wanted to see the world

To live in this world

Not just get a short glimpse

Of what I could be missing

I am here because I believe

And my earliest memory

Was the strong sense that I needed to live

I told myself that I wouldn’t give up

I believed that I would have an impact on my world

My family thought so too

For they always believed

That I would pull through

Almost certainly twenty years now

It brings me to tears

To think what if I hadn’t believed

Ahh the life of a preemie J

The flip side of personal care attendants

You will remember my post everything she does is beautiful from a while back. Today I’d like to talk about the flip side of personal care attendants. Things don’t always go right. I have been lucky, and this post isn’t really about focusing on the negative aspects; but rather the different aspects of personal care. Continue reading