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#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. […]
Read More#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 […]
Read More#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 […]
Read More#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 […]
Read More#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 […]
Read More#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 […]
Read More#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 […]
Read More#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 […]
Read More#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 […]
Read More#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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