27 February 2008
My divided life.
I have called this entry “my divided life” because that how my life is at the moment.
The two divides are the E2E challenge and sorting out my care package which is up for review. I would love to go into great dept and talk to you all about the problems that disabled people, and I must add, elderly people have, when it comes to getting care, but I shall leave that one for another blog, another day. I will say that I am a great believer in the Direct Payments Scheme as I have been on it for 3 years now, 2 of which I have employed my own staff and would not change back to the old system. If any of you wish help with DP, then please just email me, I will help if I can.
The other me, the E2E Challenge. Do you realise there is only 95 days to the starting gun? It is only 1543 and already a lot has happened. My local parks have given me permission to practice erecting my tent. This we must get right, because the worst scenario is that the tent will have to be put up in the poring rain. Not a good time to learn how to put up a tent! I am also pleased to say, that each stage, I will have at lest one of my own cares, some times, possible two carers with me. Thanks for that guys.
Blue tooth. This I had heard about but knew little to nothing about. To all you mobile buffs, it will not be a strange word, to me it was. I have found out that if any of you ring me while I am on the challenge, I can speak to you, via an ear piece, by just hitting a button. I say hit, because I cannot use my hands in the normal way. I have also discovered that as I go along the challenge, I can send a video down the Blue Tooth to my laptop and then my blog. And we can do all this and not cure the common cold!
Now that the Alber Adventure has been ordered, we are looking at launching the challenge in 3 to 4 weeks, possible in Wakefield, this is when Graham Jeffery from Gerald-Simonds will make the final adjustment to Alber, with me in it, and will hand him over to me. When we have a date, place and time set I will place details on this blog, please come and join the celebrations and see the hand over. It should be quite a party.
I am a great believer and user of organic vegetables; I get a box delivered every week form https://www.riverswale.co.uk/ . They at Riverswale have offered to put into each box they deliver, some 300 per week, a copy of the leaflet I have made. If any of you could do the same, please email me and I’ll email you a copy. Thanks to Riverswale for that kind offer.
I use a possum control to operate all my equipment and that includes making phone calls. Well today, I was preparing for a new possum to be installed next month, and as I have to give the engineer a list of all the phone numbers I wish to have pre installed, I went through the list on the possum. One or two were no longer available, but two, who I could not work out who the numbers belonged to, were, so I rang the mistory numbers, one turned out to be Edward from ‘Run the Country’, here is the plug guys http://www.runthecountry.co.uk/ and the other George from Galloway’s Society for the Blind. http://www.galloways.org.uk/ Plug there for you George. Well worth visiting both web sites. I meet Edward at the Great North Run Show about 4 years back, Long story, and I meet George when I put out an appeal for someone to push me in, I think it was my 8th Great North Run, they have helped me ever since and have roomers here ever since, for their teams.
Well blog readers, I have rambled on too long, so I am going to say by for now and put this all on my blog.
My divided life.
I have called this entry “my divided life” because that how my life is at the moment.
The two divides are the E2E challenge and sorting out my care package which is up for review. I would love to go into great dept and talk to you all about the problems that disabled people, and I must add, elderly people have, when it comes to getting care, but I shall leave that one for another blog, another day. I will say that I am a great believer in the Direct Payments Scheme as I have been on it for 3 years now, 2 of which I have employed my own staff and would not change back to the old system. If any of you wish help with DP, then please just email me, I will help if I can.
The other me, the E2E Challenge. Do you realise there is only 95 days to the starting gun? It is only 1543 and already a lot has happened. My local parks have given me permission to practice erecting my tent. This we must get right, because the worst scenario is that the tent will have to be put up in the poring rain. Not a good time to learn how to put up a tent! I am also pleased to say, that each stage, I will have at lest one of my own cares, some times, possible two carers with me. Thanks for that guys.
Blue tooth. This I had heard about but knew little to nothing about. To all you mobile buffs, it will not be a strange word, to me it was. I have found out that if any of you ring me while I am on the challenge, I can speak to you, via an ear piece, by just hitting a button. I say hit, because I cannot use my hands in the normal way. I have also discovered that as I go along the challenge, I can send a video down the Blue Tooth to my laptop and then my blog. And we can do all this and not cure the common cold!
Now that the Alber Adventure has been ordered, we are looking at launching the challenge in 3 to 4 weeks, possible in Wakefield, this is when Graham Jeffery from Gerald-Simonds will make the final adjustment to Alber, with me in it, and will hand him over to me. When we have a date, place and time set I will place details on this blog, please come and join the celebrations and see the hand over. It should be quite a party.
I am a great believer and user of organic vegetables; I get a box delivered every week form https://www.riverswale.co.uk/ . They at Riverswale have offered to put into each box they deliver, some 300 per week, a copy of the leaflet I have made. If any of you could do the same, please email me and I’ll email you a copy. Thanks to Riverswale for that kind offer.
I use a possum control to operate all my equipment and that includes making phone calls. Well today, I was preparing for a new possum to be installed next month, and as I have to give the engineer a list of all the phone numbers I wish to have pre installed, I went through the list on the possum. One or two were no longer available, but two, who I could not work out who the numbers belonged to, were, so I rang the mistory numbers, one turned out to be Edward from ‘Run the Country’, here is the plug guys http://www.runthecountry.co.uk/ and the other George from Galloway’s Society for the Blind. http://www.galloways.org.uk/ Plug there for you George. Well worth visiting both web sites. I meet Edward at the Great North Run Show about 4 years back, Long story, and I meet George when I put out an appeal for someone to push me in, I think it was my 8th Great North Run, they have helped me ever since and have roomers here ever since, for their teams.
Well blog readers, I have rambled on too long, so I am going to say by for now and put this all on my blog.
