This is a short and sweet post today but a very important one for me. Last week a lady got in touch with me through the blog. She has a long-term condition and is faced with the very real possibility of a below knee amputation. She had looked on the Internet for stories and information, […]
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The Amputee and the author
November 30, 2012 
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Early last week I was contacted by gentleman called Rodney, through ‘The Amputee’ email, stating that he liked my posts and wondered if I would be willing to discuss NHS prostheses with him. I replied that I would be happy to talk about my personal experience but obviously not all amputees are the same. It […]
Continue reading Second Paralympic experience
September 9, 2012 0 Comments
Before I won the Tickets for the Paralympics a friend on Facebook had asked me if I was going, long story short we arranged to go together. That Facebook friend is Ellie, we worked at the same Prison and I haven’t seen her for about 4 years now. I booked tickets for the Women’s Sitting […]
Continue reading Olympic inspiration
August 13, 2012 0 Comments
So that’s it, the Olympics is finally over and I am having withdrawals already from my daily fix. I have never been that into it in the past but did watch parts of it and sports I liked. Not sure if it was because it was being staged in the UK, because I had the […]
Continue reading Home alone
July 24, 2012 2 Comments
Yesterday was my first full day back home and by lunchtime I found myself home alone until Friday. Quite a while ago, because I was going to be at Annual Camp, Mum and Dad had booked a dog friendly log cabin in Derbyshire for a few days away. When I came back from Camp early […]
Continue reading I entered a discomfort zone
April 27, 2012 0 Comments
I had been looking forward to yesterday for a while as it was the first day since the surgery that I was going out to do some photography. Every year Cambridgeshire Army Cadet Force has the recruiting trailer at the Army Careers Exhibition held at the Army Training Regiment Bassingbourn (ATR(B)). I missed last year’s […]
Continue reading There could be some changes afoot
April 24, 2012 0 Comments
I have been a bit quiet and not written a post for a week, mainly because not much has happened but after getting my car last Tuesday nothing else was worth talking about. Tuesday of this week and it was back to see Lynne (my prosthetist) with my leg. Today she had the new prosthetist […]
Continue reading I have a brilliant prosthetist
March 23, 2012 0 Comments
A glorious sunny day and I spent the morning in hospital, was it worth it? It may well have been. Having been unable to get my prosthesis on since I’ve had the second socket it was back to Lynne (my prosthetist) to see if she could remedy the situation. After explaining the problem two solutions […]
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