Well this is it, my very first foray into blogging. I had been mulling it over for a while and finally decided to have a go after the very nice people at Dark Hollow Publishing http://darkhollowpublishing.blogspot.com/ mentioned my website on their blog and I thought again that it would be nice to have a go myself. So here I am - hopefully I will be fabulously witty and amusing as I describe my glamorous life (!), but at the very least you will get an idea of the person behind www.emotionalbaggage.co.uk.
Today I took a few hours off selling handbags to visit the Naidex show at the NEC. I wanted to watch my future sister-in-law's excellent presentation about postural care and how much can be done to improve the posture (and therefore the health) of a person who can't move themselves. She was a big hit with the social workers and occupational therapists in the room, and was virtually mobbed in rock-star stylie at the end of the presentation! http://www.posturalcareskills.com/ if you'd like to find out more...
Being a wheelchair-user myself it's always useful to go along and gaze at the latest products and services being touted to help one move about, get in and out of buildings (automatic front doors at just £4000 a throw - I'll take two), shower, bathe, sleep, dress (tragically I did spot one comfy slipper stall - the fashion police were en route), eat (happily I can do most of this unaided although a live-in hairdresser and make-up artist would be appreciated), go on holiday (an Italian man chased me to give me a leaflet on holidays just outside Rome - I like to think it's because he thought I looked like I belonged in such glamorous settings...) and, more's the pity, do the washing up in a specially built kitchen which has a sink you can wheel your chair under - how kind of the nice inventing people (honestly you really can take independent living too far...). Nearly as alarming as that was the contraption which you attach to your chair to enable it to go up and down stairs - frankly you'd have to knock me out a la Mr T on a 'plane (yes I know I am showing my age, fool) to to get me on one of those., I'll choose my own thrills thanks very much.
