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Shall We Get Dressed Now?

Being cared for has been a series of difficult, awkward and funny situations.

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Author: Mike Nevin

I decided to write about the funny side of being cared for. I am a full time wheelchair user with daily carers. It's my experiences with my carers that inspired this blog.
28th May 2020 Humour

8 Seconds

A blog for millennials, whose concentration span is apparently 8 seconds, that’s a pity, times up.

23rd May 2020 Experiences / Health / Humour / Thoughts

Fly by Wire

No one could accuse me of being fast. I have been in a wheelchair now for 2.5 years and I

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22nd May 2020 Humour / Thoughts

Capes not capons

I have the answer to all our troubles; capes. Yes capes, forget cooking capons. Get out of your kitchen and

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19th May 2020 Faith / Thoughts

UK Blessings Video

I wanted to include a link to the UK blessings video in case you hadn’t heard it or wanted an

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15th May 2020 Experiences / Humour / Thoughts

The Social Distancing Dance

Have you noticed how we have all learned to dance. Well, maybe not me. I can’t even walk. But my

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12th May 2020 Faith / Humour / Thoughts

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow

I have been scanning photos while lying in bed. Mary is sorting through old photo albums and I am digitising

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6th May 2020 Faith / Humour / Thoughts

Upload

There is a recently released Amazon Prime series, made before the virus. It’s an absolute mine of insights to the

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29th Apr 2020 Experiences / Health / Thoughts

Pain is an odd thing

Have you ever stopped to think about pain? We only see it as a bad thing, but pain is there

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24th Apr 2020 Health / News

A blog by a relative in NZ

Tuesday 14 April, 2020(S.B. on her work as an essential worker in a Wellington NZ hospital during lockdown) I’ve never

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17th Apr 2020 Experiences / Humour / Thoughts

The Depressed AI

We are always reading about AI taking over the world. But the reality is AI’s are depressed. Have you heard

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12th Apr 2020 Experiences / Thoughts

Waves of change

I have heard a lot of people talk about, OK complain about, being ‘stuck’ at home. One recently said they

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6th Apr 2020 Thoughts

Who would have guessed

I have just been in the garden. First time in a week. It’s not that I don’t enjoy the garden,

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4th Apr 2020 Experiences / Humour / Thoughts

Can you see what I see

I seem to remember a song that went, ‘can you see what I see?’ Well the obvious answer, especially at

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4th Apr 2020 Thoughts

Elementary my dear Michael

Has anyone seen the American take on Sherlock Holmes called Elementary? It’s available via Prime video. I am watching it,

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30th Mar 2020 Experiences / Humour / Thoughts

The sun has got its hat on

I am sitting in our garden well wrapped up. I need to be today, it’s a little bit chillier. The

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30th Mar 2020 Thoughts

Living in a bad Hollywood Blockbuster

Sometimes it feels like we are living in a movie…

28th Mar 2020 Experiences / Humour / Thoughts

Personal Space

(This is lighthearted not serious) Even before I was in a wheelchair I liked a lot of personal space, space

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19th Mar 2020 Experiences / Thoughts

Can you see what I see?

In the Hollywood Blockbuster The Matrix, Neo finds out that his whole world was a lie. He had been asleep

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6th Mar 2020 Experiences / Health / Thoughts

…and a great parking place

There are a lot of assumptions made about disability by able bodied people. A common one is how great it

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23rd Feb 2020 Experiences / Health / Thoughts

Snapshot

I have always loved photography. Back in the 1970’s an era that I have read in the history books, OK

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