In a world where disability access is paid lip service at best, it makes me quite angry when I encounter the battles I have had (and a personal injury as well) at the Crowne Plaza Queenstown.
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The real physical and psychological fallout of a medical misadventure
It’s not easy living with a disability that is as a result of someone’s fuck up. It’s not easy living with the knowledge that no one will ever be held accountable. And its very difficult indeed living in the knowledge that the organisation who’s responsibility ot is to make life better for you actually places very little value on the limb you lost or the trauma caused, either by the original fuck up, or their ongoing poor decision making.
Continue reading “The real physical and psychological fallout of a medical misadventure”Being an amputee – the real mental and physical cost
There are a lot of things that I hate about being an amputee. Well, let me correct that, being an amputee in the situation I find myself in – at the mercy of ACC.
Continue reading “Being an amputee – the real mental and physical cost”And so it begins
This moment is huge. This moment has been coming for more than ten years. It’s been a culmination of a great many things, physical psychological and emotional. Today is an historic day. For me at least.
Continue reading “And so it begins”Wheelchair entry ban: finding a solution
⚠️Background: I entered a local running event a few weeks ago and was told after entering that I had been withdrawn because wheelchairs were banned.
❣️Instead of losing my cool, I went about seeking a solution to make the event more inclusive for everyone.
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