The waiting game

Let me kick off this post by saying that I’m sorry this post has been a long time coming, well probably not as long as it feels like it’s been to me, bu lots of things have been going on round here and I needed some time to wrap my head around it before I wrote about it.

So, as some of you may have seen on the blog’s Facebook page I’ve had to have a hip x-ray for the hip pain that has been keeping me awake at night for at least six months now because it’s got to the point where it is aching constantly through the day too.

At the recommendation of a physio, I’ve been using a tense machine for the last few days and that’s helped a lot, but I’m still waiting for the x-ray results in the hope that will finally give us some answers. The uncertainty isn’t nice but I’m trying to stay hopeful that it’s nothing too bad, but whatever it is, I’ll deal with it.

I’ve also got appointments with orthotics and physio this month so I’m hoping we can all work together to put something into place that will help

On a lighter note, as some of you may have also noticed, I’m taking part in National Novel Writing Month this month (something which challenges participants to write 50,000 words of a novel in the 30 days of November) which is keeping me pretty busy. I’ve decided to write a story about a 16-year-old girl with Cerebral Palsy.  Who knows, maybe you’ll all get to read it. I want to talk about that some more in another post. It’s the first time I’ve written a character that has the same disability as me so it’s being quite interesting for lots of reasons.

Thanks for sticking with me guys. I’ll hopefully have news for you all about my hip soon.

Fun Fact Friday [17]

Hello and welcome to Fun Fact Friday, a place where I share facts about myself that aren’t linked to my Cerebral Palsy. Today I’m going to post a list of some of the countries I would like to visit:

  • Italy
  • America
  • Australia
  • Sweden
  • Singapore
  • Germany
  • Japan
  • Greece
  • Spain

These are just a few of them.

Have you been to any of them, pr do you live in any of them?

NEW VLOG: Video response to Robyn Lambird (A T-rex Life) would I take a cure for my Cerebral Palsy?

This is something that I’ve discussed so many times already on my blog, but when I came across Robyn’s video about the same topic on her YouTube channel; A T-Rex Life, I decided to do a video response of my own.

Please go and check out her videos, I’ve just discovered them recently.

In the meantime, here’s what I would personally do.

NEW VLOG: About last week’s activities

Hi guys,

Sorry that today has been a double post day, I don’t really like to do that but I’ve been so busy lately and have so much to tell you in quite a small scale of time that it’s going to be better to do it this way.

 

Here’s a vlog that I posted on YouTube about the gig I went to last weekend and also my visit to the West Yorkshire Playhouse. I know that I haven’t mentioned my theatre trip on here yet but I’m hoping to do a post on it this week,

 

Enjoy guys

 

 

Justin Furstenfeld gig at Band On The Wall 18/10/14

So this weekend I went to see Blue October’s lead singer Justin Furstenfeld doing a solo tour (The Open Book Tour) at Band On The Wall in Manchester. I’m not going to review the gig or anything, although it was amazing, but I going to talk about my weekend.

I was a little nervous about going because I’d never been to the venue before but as it happened I needn’t have worried.

There was a ramp into the building and the staff were really helpful. They’d reserved seats for my friend and I, just like they said they would, and a member of staff led us to and from our seats at all points of the gig. I’ve kept the piece of paper that said the he seats were reserved for me as a memento too, along with my ticket.

The other members of the crowd were lovely too and no one complained at having to dodge round my walking frame Martha to get by me.I know it sounds silly but I sometimes feel self-conscious at things like this that I might get in other people’s way or whatever, but I didn’t feel like that at all that night.

Justin was amazing and he played quite a few of my favorite songs. It was really good to listen to his story and it was nice to hear everyone singing along.

I would definitely go back to this venue if they had a band or artist I wanted to see. This is more than can be said for some of the places I’ve been to, which shall remain nameless.