Of Battered Aspect

She came in, walking carefully, even more carefully led. Her body allowed her to walk, slowly, carefully and with assistance. A chair was fo...

Today is the day. I've been waiting for it. If you are a regular reader, you will remember that a while back I got another infection for...

I fell this morning. I fear falling as, since I became disabled, getting back up is a difficult task. But I managed, with no grace or dignit...

We had our keys in had and were headed up to the hotel room. Both tired from the day and the drive we were glad of arrival. Mercifully the r...

Happy accident. We noticed a sign on the M602 in Manchester for an exhibit called, 'The Animals' War'. The idea intrigued me so ...

We have been waiting since to see 'August Rush' ever since we saw the trailers at the movie theatre. It opened here in the UK yester...

He was born at the wrong time to the right woman. 67 years ago Richard was born with Down Syndrome, his mother was informed moments after hi...

It's Friday, it's Falkirk, it'a tough morning. The hotel's alarm system went off last night and we immediately called downst...

"He's so getting laid," Joe said looking back into the bar behind me. The traffic had been terrible between Glasgow and Edinbu...

There were four of them. Mom and Dad and two kids. Both kids had disabilities. One with Down Syndrome, and the other in a wheelchair with ce...

We left Newcastle and headed up the A1 on our way to Glasgow via Edinburgh ... there are shorter ways but we wanted to drive along the coast...

I don't like being in the way. Really don't like it. I think it's because I grew up fat ... fatty fatty two by four can't ge...

Driving up to Newcastle we stopped at a service center, because we are both over 50 and peeing now takes up about 30% of our day. The disabl...

We arrived at Heathrow after a relatively comfortable flight, I even slept a little. We usually have trouble at airports as I use my own cha...

Such a contrast. Sitting in a hotel room watching a report on the plight of people with intellectual disabilities in Serbia - seeing horrifi...

You could tell that this was the place. We pulled into the parking lot of the Holiday Inn in Trenton and every disabled parking bay was full...

Arriving home from work there is an email from an old friend. We used to work together, years ago, and talk maybe two or three times a year....

A while ago I wrote about getting an infection and having IV antibiotics. I haven't revisited that topic because the infection, while sl...

It's 9:30 and I'm only now writing my blog. Usually I'm up writing before 6 and have the days post published by 6:30. But ... yo...

Flipping around the television stations in a hotel room we fell upon an old Bruce Willis movie neither of us had seen. We were both grumpy f...