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.
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PTSD awareness – todays fact
PTSD awareness: it’s a shitty thing to have to live with. It’s even more crappy to have to deal with peoples misconceptions of what PTSD actually is.
Continue reading “PTSD awareness – todays fact”Training week 2: um, that didn’t quite go to plan!
After finding that the actual plan last week was a bit much, I had a revised plan in mind for this weeks training. Now it was going to plan.. till something else came along and sunk my ship.
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PTSD is something everyone claims they know about but I doubt many really understand. And I mean TRULY understand.
Continue reading “#266 What PTSD really looks like”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.
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