Chaos in Slow Motion – Nina’s Life – More Than Meets the Eye
The person inside the person with MS in the wheelchair
I spent Christmas lying low and avoiding social media. I don’t do Christmas so just wait for the hubbub to pass This year I surrounded myself with voices that have moved me greatly. Authors, activists, performers and a group of women. Margaret Atwood spoke with wisdom, consideration and frank meaning behind every word on Radio … Continue reading Words and Voices
A brief introduction before I start this. I always write my blog posts for myself and this one probably more than any other. I dictate rather than type, so speaking it all out loud is both therapeutic and cathartic. I cry as I speak and it does me a lot of good. However, I am … Continue reading A Year On Part Three: Life
On November 1st 2018 I was admitted to hospital and would never return to my flat. On November 1st 2019 I moved in to a home of my own again. I was medically fit to leave hospital after three weeks but stayed for two months while a social worker looked for suitable housing for me. … Continue reading A Year On… Part Two: Home
One day I fell in love with a flamingo. Not a live flamingo. Not any old flamingo. A Fabergé flamingo. In the jewellery section at the V&A museum there is a cylindrical display case with a spiral of Fabergé animals. Right at the top is a flamingo, or my flamingo as I now consider it. … Continue reading Flamingos
Well, it’s been over a year since I was living in a nursing home, hitting the media and fighting a fight that couldn’t be won against the government policy on paying for care. A lot has changed in the past year and it’s time for an update! I shall start with money. I finally managed … Continue reading A Year On…Part One: Money.
It all started with my blog about my financial situationMy Money. Personal vs Political A friend I lived with when I first moved to Brighton kindly shared it with her sister, a journalist who thought it was a story worth telling. Rebecca wrote a great article and checked every bit of it with me for … Continue reading The Mail on Sunday and beyond….
Before I can start again I need to take stock of what I have lost. Up until October 2018 I was living in a one-bedroom flat I had owned for 10 years. I was working full time as an assistant head for the pupil referral units in West Sussex. I drove an adapted car which … Continue reading Starting again.
Just over a year ago I began to really struggle with my health. I had worked full time as a teacher since being diagnosed with MS 17 years ago and was currently working as a non-teaching assistant head. It was my ideal job – mostly desk based without a teaching timetable but some contact with … Continue reading My Money. Personal vs Political
This is a talk I gave at a wonderful evening on Wednesday 6th March for an event to mark International Women's Day. It was a collaboration between Youjuice and the Syndicate Kitchen hosted at Silo in Brighton. https://www.youjuice.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/syndicate_ktchn?lang=en http://www.silobrighton.com/ Anita at Youjuice gave it the title Overcoming MS and I have added the question … Continue reading Overcoming MS?
Day zero https://www.youjuice.co.uk/ I have been nourished by Anita's food and juices for about a month now and am hooked! The 10 day relaxed cleanse ended up not stopping. https://ninaisinhere.home.blog/2019/01/20/youjuice-relaxed-cleanse/ However, I am still struggling to lose weight which is getting me down. Being in a wheelchair and unable to exercise easily and regularly is … Continue reading Youjuice Juice Cleanse
Chaos in Slow Motion - Nina’s Life - More Than Meets the Eye 