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Leonard Cheshire - Disability means business!
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Hello, our lovely folks, and welcome back to our much-anticipated next blog. I’ve been enjoying spending time with my daughter Margot and dog, it never ends, though treasure the family times!!! This blog will focus on the Leonard Cheshire charity, so strap yourselves in and enjoy the interesting ride! Leonard Cheshire was founded in May 1948. The idea first came about because an ex-serviceman Leonard Cheshire took in a disabled man who was dying. www.leonardcheshire.org The world was vastly changing after the second world war. The following is quoted directly from the Leonard Cheshire website. “With no money, Leonard nursed the...
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Personal Care Budget Review
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Welcome back to our blog we are thrilled to have you visit our website. Recently the government has boosted social care budgets by £700 million but we still have an underfunded system. I wrote a letter to my Social Worker just before my review, as the date got closer my anxiety and stress levels were seriously affecting my wellbeing, see below Dear John I am a deafblind mum with epilepsy, and for the past 2 years, I’ve had a personal assistant which has transformed my life and given me independence and dignity. I also love the fact that I can...
Menopause, Breast Cancer and Disability
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Hi their folks, hope you're keeping safe in the middle of another summer heatwave! Don't forget to look after your health and well-being. This blog will be reflective and yet as always, celebrate people with unique abilities, so I hope this week's blog will be interesting as usual.
In the wake of Dame Olivia Newton John’s untimely death, she was aged 73 and had breast cancer and gone into remission on and off for 30 years, and in 2017, she said it had gone into her spine and eventually it was terminal. (BBC news, Olivia Newton-John's cancer-research legacy - BBC News (2022).
What is it like to be terrified of having to pick up a telephone, or buy something in a shop? What is it like to have a really bad stammer?”
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Celebrating our Queen’s platinum jubilee, (70 years on the thrown this year,) and how the royals have helped in educating in the arena of disability awareness. Hi folks! Welcome back! As you’re reading this blog, you can have a nice glass of bubbly for this is a blog for celebration because it is bubbling with royal facts and bubbling with our wit and interesting writing style! The title of this royal blog says it all! We’re delighted at ERS to be celebrating with you the queen’s jubilee on the 5th of June 2022! You may remember a film called the...
Welcome to Wonderful Speed of Sight
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Hi there folks, and welcome back! This blog will take you on a ride and a half! This blog will focus on speed of sight, a charity that gives blind and partially sighted people the experience to drive a buggy, which is a mini version of a car. The great man that founded this is a man called Mike Newman. Mike had glaucoma as a child, and it got so bad, he had to have his eyes out. He was a manager of a bank for many years, though through his hobby of breaking world speed records and driving with...