Accessibility, Cerebral Palsy, Disability Awareness, Fighting for Change

Christmas shouldn’t compromise disability access

I know I’ve written about this before but Christmas is a particularly difficult time to be a wheelchair user. From mid-November, I begin to notice the aisles in shops starting to narrow as retailers seek to cram as much as they can in to attract festive shoppers. It becomes almost impossible to get around withoutContinue reading Christmas shouldn’t compromise disability access

Cerebral Palsy, Costs To Expect, Disabled Parent, Family, Motherhood, Personal

Challenges of a Disabled Mum: Hubby returns to work

For the past year, hubby has been off work to help me with our little lad Niall who was born last April. He did the same when we had Jack and having that support has been brilliant. Hubby has been working on our Costs to Expect app which is essentially a budget management tool withContinue reading Challenges of a Disabled Mum: Hubby returns to work

Cerebral Palsy, Disability and kids, Disabled Parent, Education, Motherhood, Personal, Schools

Challenges of a Disabled Mum – Mummy’s “Terrible Palsy”

As I promised a few months ago, “Challenges of a Disabled Mum” is back – though it has to be said that my biggest challenge at the moment is simply finding the time to blog and develop the many ideas that I have! My five month old baby boy, Niall, is a full time jobContinue reading Challenges of a Disabled Mum – Mummy’s “Terrible Palsy”

Accessibility, Cerebral Palsy, Customer Service, Disability Aids, Disability Awareness, Fighting for Change, Personal, Wheelchair

Wheelchair Woes… finally resolved

Those of you who follow my blog will know of the issues I had over the summer with my electric wheelchair. At the time of writing my last blog, I was awaiting new batteries having only just had another fault resolved. The drama continued to unfold as a new set of batteries were sent andContinue reading Wheelchair Woes… finally resolved