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[14/30] One Way Ticket

#30YearsRolling – Day 14/30 – Reflections on the 30th Anniversary of my Injury   ONE WAY TICKET The experiences with politics and the new job combined with the confidence I was gaining though dating and doing a lot of socialising had me feeling really positive about life and the future in a way I hadn’t before.   […]

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[13/30] Getting Political

#30YearsRolling – Day 13/30 – Reflections on the 30th Anniversary of my Injury   For much of my life I have felt like I was here to make a difference but I had no idea how I was going to do that.   As an idealistic twenty-something I felt that politics would be a great way to […]

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[12/30] Brand New Starts

#30YearsRolling – Day 12/30 – Reflections on the 30th Anniversary of my Injury BRAND NEW STARTS After tucking the big win away in the bank to forget about for a while I fell back into the flow I was in work wise. I’d been in the IT role for a few years and was starting […]

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[11/30] Leaving Home

#30YearsRolling – Day 11/30 – Reflections on the 30th Anniversary of my Injury It felt like an eternity that I was out of action for.   18 months was a really long time to be stuck at home so sick.   I wasn’t going to dwell on what an awful experience it had been.   I was […]

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[10/30] Down With The Sickness

  #30YearsRolling – Day 10/30 – Reflections on the 30th Anniversary of my Injury   I’d found my groove – I was happy at work and had a great social life.   Being the sober one, I was always the designated driver and didn’t mind that at all as I loved driving so much.   My job […]

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[9/30] Reflections on 30th Anniversary of my Injury – Day 9

  #30YearsRolling – Day 9/30 – Reflections on the 30th Anniversary of my Injury     It was such a good feeling going into the interview knowing that the employer actually wanted a person with a disability for the job.   I didn’t have to do all of the covert research about accessibility beforehand.   I wasn’t […]

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[8/30] 30 Years Rolling Reflections – Day 8

  #30YearsRolling – Day 8/30 – Reflections on the 30th Anniversary of my Injury   One mission was accomplished and the next awaited.   I had well above the previous year’s T.E.R. for the Sport Studies degree I wanted to do, I just had to wait for an offer of a place from the university.   Before […]

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[7/30] Back In Black

#30YearsRolling – Day 7/30 – Reflections on the 30th Anniversary of my Injury Despite the seriousness of the lowest ebb, there was one key component: nobody knew about it. I coped the way a lot of people in such a situation do: I put it behind me and acted to myself like it didn’t happen. This, of […]

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[6/30] To Give Up Or Get On With It

#30YearsRolling – Day 6/30 – Reflections on the 30th Anniversary of my Injury The change of schools and the deep immersion in music certainly helped to take the edge off the deep despair I was feeling.   For a while.   By the end of year 10 I had stopped getting stoned.   The feeling of […]

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[5/30] Music Saved My Life

#30YearsRolling – Day 5/30 – Reflections on the 30th anniversary of my injury   Starting a new school this time round was a much more positive experience, one I was looking forward to.   I had the opportunity to go there for 2 weeks at the end of year 8 so I was starting year 9 […]

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