I updated the “about” page for this blog yesterday, but that page generally sits in the top menu, unnoticed and lonely, so this post is just to let you know it’s there, and would appreciate a little company ..
Category: full-story
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Sorting medication (full story 044)
Quick summary: A medication mistake revealed that my problem was not simply forgetting tablets. I was losing my place in the sequence. A new pill organiser, bought for travel convenience, unexpectedly offered a simple solution: raising the next compartment so the organiser remembers the process when my brain cannot.
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A South Pole Record, and a Shared Story of Stroke
There are moments in life when something remarkable happens “out there” in the world…
and yet it feels strangely close to home.Recently my nephew Jonny Huntington became a three-time Guinness World Record holder. He is now recognised as the first disabled person to ski solo and unsupported to the South Pole.
That sentence alone feels almost too large to take in.
But for me, it lands somewhere quieter.
Because Jonny and I share something that doesn’t make headlines.
We have both had strokes.
And we both live with what that leaves behind.
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Half a Mind to .. 