Life//Adventures

You may or may not know that I have been working with a charity called Fixers to create a advert to raise awareness of the signs of stroke - particularly in young people. Ive been doing it since around November time and I’m so pleased it is finally coming together! Last Thursday my project was picked up as a broadcast piece for ITV Meridian which you can view here. 

http://www.fixers.org.uk/news/6615-11208/strokes-striking-young-on-itv.php

I am very pleased with it and hope that I did it justice for other young survivors :) Since this went out I have had  endless media requests from radio stations, news agencies and freelance journalists. Its fun but difficult to decide who the right person is to tell my story too. I was featured in the Argus, Brightons local newspaper without even really knowing about it. Luckily the article was very nicely written by a lovely lady called Siobhan. 

I also spoke to the BBC Sussex Breakfast show about my experience which you can listen to here, Just skip to 1hr22

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0184c71

I love doing things like this because if just ONE person can learn the symptoms of a stroke each time I tell my story then they could potentially save somebodies life. 

Act FAST. 

reasonsmysoniscrying:

We took him to a special meal at Chef Mickey’s restaurant so he could meet all of his favorite Disney Characters.

This is completely not stroke related but  I love this blog and more importantly, I LOVE DISNEY

So myspace but yay shoes!

Lots of things to report so I will try to do some posts over the weekend. 

Firstly, I have received funding from the local PCT for Functional Electronic Stimulation for my leg and arm so I had an assessment with a guy from PhysioFunction called Jon. after assessing me, he suggested that I might still need a little extra support onto of the FES but that my current NHS splint was not the right thing as its too rigid. 

For some reason that day he had decided to bring his carbon fibre splints with him and suggested I  tried one with the FES, It worked perfectly, holding my foot just in place but allowing the FES to still work enough for it to improve my walking even with the splint on. I loved it. Then my physio suggested I tried it without the FES to see if it would be worth me using before I get the FES equipment, I LOVED IT. I didn’t want to take it off and when he told me id be able to wear normal shoes I was ecstatic! I ordered one instantly and went shoe shopping whilst I waited for it to arrive.

 I now have the splint and some lovely new nikes to go with it, its not as supportive as my old splint so I can’t walk as far yet and i’m much slower but I know i’ll get there and it will benefit me in the long run. Plus its totally worth being a bit slower to wear real shoes not those horrible velcros!! 

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Reconstructing my stroke. Too realistic #itvfixers #stroke

I saw this band about a month ago. Loving this video…opinions?

To Kill A King - Funeral.

Lots going on at the minute so havn’t posted for a little while so heres a quick update…

Job is going really well as is physio. Currently  appealing a DLA decision that I  am no longer entitled to any mobilitly rate, doesn’t seem right considering the short distance I can walk and the painI am often in? Today I also received my atos questionnaire so that is going to be a hoot too! I also have a lovely boyfriend now and between seeing him, seeing my friends, working, physio and dealing with paperwork I feel like I barely have time to breathe. As soon as I have some spare time i’ll do a proper update :) Until next time…