When my sight deteriorated at the age of twenty three I really didn’t know what to do with myself anymore. I was a Nursery Nurse and I had been since leaving school. That was all I had ever known work wise. I had been wanting a change for a while, so in a way this…
Tag: Sight Loss
Birthdays and Besties
Recently I wrote a post about my birthday and how it didn’t exactly go to plan. It was nobody’s fault at all, it was just one of those days where things kept happening. Luckily though I had another birthday do to fall back on. I went out for a meal with my friends. We went…
OFCD Syndrome
All my life I have had to deal with hospitals, appointments and tests, it’s just the way life is. In some ways I feel it has made me stronger. I don’t freak out over the tiniest needle or worry myself sick over routine check ups. There has never been a stage in my life where…
Making Assumptions and First Impressions
You can’t have a second chance of a first impression. The problem with first impressions is that they can be completely wrong. Everybody has a first impression of somebody, it’s just natural. We like the look of somebody or we don’t, we think they dress nice or they don’t, they are intelligent or they are…
My PTSD Journey – Part 3 (The end of CBT)
Well here we are… the end of a very long and challenging year of my life but also a big chunk of my life. Over the last year I have been living with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and having cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to treat it. Before starting my therapy I heard a lot…
The Power of Distraction
Over the years I have come to realise that thinking does not do me any good. I’m not really sure that it does anybody any good. Over thinking doesn’t anyway. Over thinking just sends your mind around in circles and it never ever ever ends. There’s so many things in life to over think and…
Love your liver – Alcohol doesn’t
“Don’t drink” they say, “You’ll damage your liver” they say. What does that even mean??? You may be sitting there supping your drink in a beer goggled bliss. But it won’t last forever. You really don’t know what damage you are doing to yourself. Yes this is a drinking lecture, but it’s not just any…
Trampolining (and visually impaired)
At school many years ago now PE was definitely not my thing. Cold, wet, shorts, losing at everything, hated it. I think we stuck in one activity for half a term and then moved on to something else. So I would have weeks on end of dreading PE. When it was our turn to use…
This is me
Hello blog world! You may have seen me around before but this is my first ever very own blog! I have blogged for other people in the past and I still will. But sometimes everything has to fit into a box, or follow a certain theme. Sometimes I don’t want to fit into a box,…
Glitter In The Darkness 