Category: Updates
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Extra Time – 14 Years On
Fourteen years. It’s strange even to write that number. Fourteen years since the day that changed everything — the day my life was split into a “before” and an “after.” Fourteen years since the moment I lost the use of my hands, my legs and almost the whole of my body….and unknowingly began to rebuild…
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Do small things with great love.
Somebody asked me what would I really want back? If I had to choose between having my legs working or my hands? Truthfully, it would be my hands. I miss everything about them, I’m now left with hands which Theodora calls ‘monster munch hands.’ And as much as I laugh about it, it’s something I’m…
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‘Nothing dries quicker than a tear’
2011, I started a new normal life. My new life consisted of getting to know myself and my body. I had to adapt to not being able to walk, use my hands, dress myself, wash myself, go to the toilet, relying on an uncomfortable wheelchair to get me around the list could go on. Mine…
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Something to tell you…
…. I’m pregnant! I never thought I would be writing something like this down it all seems so surreal even after 7 months. For me, the road towards pregnancy has been a long, battling, personal struggle. I’ve never taken the time to believe something so incredible could happen to me. At 22,…
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‘Seven billion people experienced today in a different way’
It seems a while since I’ve written something. I guess time literally doesn’t wait for anyone and lately I’ve been feeling overwhelmed by time. We always try to keep ourselves busy as I find its essential to me and everyone around me to keep myself occupied and have things to look forward too else I…
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Flowers grow out of dark moments
I’ve been reflecting on a lot of things recently and flicking through photos I may have physically changed but I’m still me. I mean, I struggled for years to come to terms with accepting the fact I’m in a wheelchair so much so that I was hardly in it. I have many demons and being…
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Hello Miami
So tomorrow is the day, the past 5 years have been building up to! The day I’ve been simultaneously waiting for and getting rather nervous about. The day I go back to Miami to be part of ground breaking research into hand movement. Two days ago I was feeling sorry for myself and rather anxious…
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Carly’s Blog #2
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” – Helen Keller Sorry for taking so long in writing another blog but time has just caught up with me! Many things have happened since writing my first blog and now. Where to start……. The…
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Thank you from Carrick
Dear Santa’s on the Sand. Thank you for attending the first Santa’s on the Sand event at Perranporth Beach. It was a great success and it was brilliant to see so many smiling faces. We had over 140 entries with entries ranging from 2 to 82 years old. The overall winner and a massive congratulations…
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Carly’s Blog #1
September 13th 2012. Chinese tradition treats illness and serious injury the same as death, they follow the same path. If you’re able to overcome this illness, you have cheated death and have another chance at life. Why me? If only? What If? I hate. I can’t deal with, I give up, are some of the…