http://www.ansaol.ie An Saol in Irish means “life” ☘️🇮🇪. The An Saol Foundation was set up by Reinhard Schaler (🇩🇪)-father of Pádraig, who suffered a severe brain injury back in 2013, while on a J1 visa in Cape Cod. Despite diar prognosis, with little hope or no chance of recovery, his parents didn’t give up! LettingContinue reading “☀️An Saol☀️”
Category Archives: Beating Locked-in Syndrome (LIS)
Inspirational message #1
🦋 The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance 🦋 🦋 The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new 🦋 June 2020 🇮🇪 So yesterday I got some devastatingContinue reading “Inspirational message #1”
Unlocked! 🔐🔓🙌
🦋 People with Locked In Syndrome (LIS) may not be able to speak or answer to their name, but they can still hear your words and feel your kindness…🦋 January 2015-GCR Repty 🇵🇱 When I arrived at the rehabilitation centre in Repty, I was assigned a Speech and Language Therapist (SLT). I was seeing herContinue reading “Unlocked! 🔐🔓🙌”
Grounding 🌎 👣
🦋 Get yourself grounded and you can navigate even the stormiest roads in peace 🦋 June 2020 🇮🇪 I’ve heard about grounding many times before, but after watching this documentary “Earthing Movie-The Remarkable Science of Grounding” (available on YouTube) I became super interested in the concept. I decided to research this subject more and tryContinue reading “Grounding 🌎 👣”
Video Blog 1️⃣
🦋 Small daily improvements are the key to staggering long term results 🦋 January 2016-GCR Repty-Rehabilitation Centre 🇵🇱 And the best “little” improvement that took place there, apart from getting my voice back was this 👇 🦋 Let the improvement of yourself make you so busy that you have no time to criticise others…🦋
Nighttime visitor 😱😂
December 2015-March 2016 🇵🇱 GCR Repty Every time we think or talk about this now, we laugh so hard 😂🙉, especially when my dad does all the impressions. I’m going to try to paint a picture, so you can understand the situation better 👇 When I was a patient of GCR Repty Rehabilitation Centre 🇵🇱Continue reading “Nighttime visitor 😱😂”
🍀HOPE🍀
🦋 Once you choose HOPE, anything is possible…🦋 May 2020 🇮🇪 Wow🤩 this is my 21st post 🙉🙈 it went so fast! 🚗💨💨💨 For the past few days I was constantly watching videos about what is going on in the world etc, which actually got me thinking a lot🤯. I cannot help the fact thatContinue reading “🍀HOPE🍀”
Christmas in hospital 🏥
December 2015-GCR Repty 🇵🇱 It can really be the most wonderful…I mean difficult time of the year. Knowing that it was Christmas, made everything twice as sad😔😢. My worst Christmas yet, by far! Spent in a hospital bed… but on a brighter side I wasn’t alone. My dad and Mr P were already there, andContinue reading “Christmas in hospital 🏥”
The day the doctor stated I was psychologically unstable…🙄
November 2015-Neurology 🇵🇱 When I was a patient in Neurology ward, I couldn’t wait to be admitted and transferred to the Upper Silesian Rehabilitation Centre (GCR Repty 🇵🇱). Again it was an unknown, a change I was looking forward to, especially that everyone around me was telling me only great things about it. “They’ll transformContinue reading “The day the doctor stated I was psychologically unstable…🙄”
HELP! 🆘😶😥
November 2015 🇵🇱 I woke up during the night with a terrible pain in my arm. I think it just involuntarily moved, while I was sleeping and got stuck in a very painful position. Every night before leaving my dad would position me in a somehow comfortable position (well as comfortable as I could get,Continue reading “HELP! 🆘😶😥”
