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MND month blog 2019
Well I for one am excited, this marks another MND awareness month. I appreciate that not everyone will have this view but if every day is a gift like me, then another year is something like a miracle. It goes without saying that I would prefer we didn’t need an awareness month, because it had been eradicated but unfortunately not at the moment. Since the last awareness month many people have suffered and lost their battle with this disease, I for one would like to pay my...
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So here we are, back it would seem by public demand. I was tagged in a post that was asking if Simon Adams and I were okay as we hadn’t been posting in a while.
So what have I been up to? Well regarding facebook I have commented on a few posts but mainly reading other posts and taking onboard others comments. It surprises me how many people join the MND forums and the first thing they need help with knowing what to do at the diagnosis stage, obviously I don’t...
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Well as is usually the case, you don’t see a new blog for ages and then they all come at once.
So the gears of a lathe have started to turn, some of the major parts have been manufactured, these have been custom made for this project, we learnt from the previous attempt, using acquired parts from doner machines just didn’t work. the previous attempt gave us real food for thought. so with some serious skills behind me the plan was formulated, now it goes without saying that serious skill is...
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Just a few things that go through my head on an average day.
Does anyone with MND just sit and think there has to be more to life than this? I mean is that it, the finale, like the end of a great series with a naff ending. Seriously like good night auvoire.
I mean really sitting in the same chair every day till you die. Despite being really active, I get these thoughts , being driven around I see people of all shapes and sizes, I think take care of the...
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Well it has been 4 months since my last post; a lot of water has gone under the bridge since then. It’s hard to believe we are now in March, roll on spring.
Notably the fastest electric wheelchair world record is still on going and we hope to begin testing soon, this will hopefully coincide with some nice weather. Regarding this although there has been little news on the project we hope March will see the coming together of all the parts in one place, various people throughout the country have...
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Well an update is long overdue, and maybe some inside information on my challenges that the media don’t want to say. Well since my last blog post the weather has changed a little, enough to make me shiver all the time unless I wear ten layers and reassemble the Michelin man.
I have mainly been busy promoting our 2 challenges, of which one was successful completed on Monday 1st October, now caving is not something I have never tried and to be honest it wasn’t on my bucket list. So how...
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Day seven
So the suitcase had proceeded to clearance, does that mean it will be here today asks Liz? Unlikely as it is still in Istanbul lol, so at regular intervals the tracking was checked but no change. The girls finally decided to try kids club, which was pretty good. It includes a train, bumper cars, a carousel and water slide as well as craft, and pizza making. This would come in handy. The evening entertainment was as a rule very good with dance acts, magicians and even bicycle stunts....
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So the holiday continues.
Day three
We woke to the fact that the suitcase was on hold, this clearly didn’t go down well with Liz, and she was well restrained to be fair. First breakfast then down to the pool complete with hoist, inflatable crocodile, rubber ring and Jet Ski. Once installed Thelma and I embarked on what ended up being a two hour lift ride. We went to see our new friends at guest relations to get them to ring DHL, (dump, hide, lose) to find out the problem? We needed...
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As title suggests I have decided to do this post in diary form, but before I start a little introduction.
The two weekends previous we were away, the first was at fully charged at Silverstone and the second we went to a concert at the O2 in London, pre booked before the holiday. Health wise I was not eating due to lack of appetite and been tube feed but drinking.
Day one
We were 1.5 hrs late setting off as you do if you’re the Liversidge’s, so of course there was then an...
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So here I am again, made another year. Possibly luck has a lot to do with it? Or is it my sheer determination to concur life with this illness. I find it intriguing how everyone suffers differently, how people deal with it differently, and the pure hatred for the disease.
I have to date made some fair achievements even by my standards. I got married to the love of my life, had two amazing girls. Been to see Mickey mouse twice, swam with Dolphins, did the longest zip wire in Europe,...
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