On Tuesday I spent the day at the CUOTC (Cambridge University Officers’ Training Corps) to help out at the County Forum, the ACF (Army Cadet Force) host the event but at the premises of CUOTC. I have helped out there for the last 4 or 5 years but each year have been able to do […]
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Archive | May, 2012
Two achievements in one day!
May 28, 2012 
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Yes today has been a good day. I managed to get my prosthetic leg on (couldn’t get it on at all yesterday) but ended up with a massive hole in my Donning Sleeve, I will have to try and get another one when I am physio on Wednesday. The day started buy driving roughly 10 […]
Continue reading An epic walk
May 27, 2012 0 Comments
The other day I fiddled with the car seat to see if I could get it in a position to be able to drive with my prosthetic leg on. When I had a Peugeot 207 and you raised or lowered the seat it changed the pitch of the seat, in my Peugeot 5008 it does […]
Continue reading A walk in the real world
May 25, 2012 0 Comments
Off the back of the ‘inspiring’ physio session on Wednesday, yesterday gave me the opportunity to go out with my prosthetic leg on. Don’t get too excited by this news, it was only to a local Supermarket. I was a little sore/aching from yesterday but thankfully it only took a couple of attempts to get […]
Continue reading Slightly inspirational physio session
May 24, 2012 0 Comments
I know, the words inspirational and physio in the same sentence, hard to believe. It has been a hard week with the leg and yet again getting fed up with it. I found out on Monday that I can’t drive with it on, so need to try and sort the car somehow and the camber […]
Continue reading Employment & Support Allowance Stopped
May 19, 2012 0 Comments
Before I went away on holiday I had to go to Cambridge for my medical assessment as part of my renewal claim for ESA (Employment & Support Allowance). When I got home from Wales there was a letter waiting for me from the DWP (Department of Work and Pensions) dated the 3rd May, it told […]
Continue reading The end of the break
May 15, 2012 0 Comments
Friday was the last day of my time in Wales and a sunny day it turned out to be. We visited one church which was high up in the mountain, so high in fact it felt like we were on top of the world. All that was there was the church on one side of […]
Continue reading Good use of a bad day
May 13, 2012 0 Comments
I had done a lot of research on Dads side of the family before we came away so I was glad he had a U-turn and decided to try and find out more while we were there. Thursday was the second and last bad weather day so that gave us the perfect opportunity for a […]
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