Occupational Therapist, Disabled Activist, Author, PhD Candidate
Being a young woman and facing the twist and turns in life is hard but add CP to the mix and it becomes even harder…
At the moment, I am on my placement and going on placement and getting into a new routine has been extremely difficult as my body is adjusting to a new body clock! Therefore, energy levels are low and fatigue is making more of an appearance! Due to this fatigue, at times I just get more… Continue reading Saying No Is Not Always as Possible as It Seems
Challenge 4!!! Can't believe we're at the final challenge already!!! I decided to set myself this challenge, this is because cooking is a life skill, therefore, I thought it would be useful to know what I can and can't do within the kitchen to adapt for the future. Whilst cooking I did think of ways… Continue reading Cooking Dinner!
So here we go we're at challenge 3 already! Which yet again challenged my fine motor skills. Out of all 4 challenges, this has to be the one I was most nervous about because darts has always been the one thing I'd avoided. Whenever my family play darts I normally have a few shots and… Continue reading Attempting to Play Darts
Welcome back to challenge number 2 for Cerebral Palsy awareness month and as you can tell this was cutting the grass. When my friend first challenged me to cut the grass, I was up for it like I'm always up for anything when in fact I'd underestimated how challenging this was going to be. This… Continue reading Cutting the Grass!
HELLO AND HAPPY CEREBRAL PALSY AWARENESS MONTH!!! As some of you may know this year for CP awareness month I have decided to set myself challenges to raise awareness, improve my own confidence and just have some fun! I'm super excited to share what I've been up to with everyone so let's begin... So, as… Continue reading Ruby’s Makeup!
As I've got older. I have come to the realisation that due to my Cerebral Palsy, there's a lot of self-care activities that I can't do that a girl my ages does, for example, painting my nails and doing my eyebrows. I have accepted this as I've never really known any different, but for me,… Continue reading The Extra Expenses of Being Disabled
This week I'm turning 19 and around this time of year, I often find myself and my family asking the same questions. If I was born on time would things be different? Was it due to the fact I wasn't born early enough? Was I born too early? I often wonder what my life would… Continue reading Unexpected Battles
I wanted to talk about the straw situation because it’s something that’s relevant and is affecting the disabled society today however only people who use straws are aware of this situation. Many people who don’t rely on straws aren’t aware of the importance of a plastic straw. I know this first hand as when I… Continue reading How the Straw Ban Effects Me
My speech impairment is something that I’ve never talked about before, I guess this is because I always thought it was because of my Cerebral Palsy and when I was younger, I just thought everyone who has CP has a speech impairment. But now I’ve got older and have more of an understanding about the… Continue reading My Speech Impairment
