During the month of May I’ll be completing an Iron Man Style Challenge using robotic gait training 🤖🦾👣. In a usual lokomat session I do about 45-50 minutes, at alternating speeds, taking around 2000 steps resulting in a distance of approximately 1.4km. For the month of May I set out a challenge to do aContinue reading “#IronMonth”
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#IronMonth
Who said you can’t compete in an Iron Man competition if you have physical difficulties/barriers like me? I’m proud and excited to say that the An Saol Foundation (where I currently do my physiotherapy) is organising an Iron Month for their clients. Family, relatives, friends, anyone is welcome to join! You’ll find more info hereContinue reading “#IronMonth”
🥳Birthday Fundraiser for ABI Ireland🥳
🦠Year 2020🦠
Firstly, I hope you all had a lovely Christmas 🎄! Filled with LOVE 💗 and FAMILY time👨👩👧, because that’s what this special time really is all about! Let’s not forget that…😇🙏🏼 What a year it has been! 😅🙉 For me personally, not a bad one at all! A year of extreme self development, reflection, awakening,Continue reading “🦠Year 2020🦠”
Motivational board ✍🏼👩🏻🏫
As I mentioned before, and as you probably noticed yourself by now I love quotes😍 it’s an obsession really 🤪😅😂, ah no! Completely seriously reading quotes was one way of keeping myself going from the beginning of this journey. When in really bad circumstances like I was, and with so much time to (over)think🤯and (over)analyse🤯Continue reading “Motivational board ✍🏼👩🏻🏫”
“Common sense is not so common” 🙄🤦🏻♀️
“Common sense is not so common” is probably one of the truest statements. I’ve experienced this a lot throughout my journey 🤦🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️ unfortunately. I’ve always heard people talk about it, but I didn’t fully understand it, or experienced it in such extent. Well! I do now🙄 They’re the kind of situations that if I tellContinue reading ““Common sense is not so common” 🙄🤦🏻♀️”
National Rehabilitation Hospital (NRH) 🏥🇮🇪
September 2016-March 2017 I arrived at the NRH at the end of September 2016, and I was admitted to Gabriel’s Ward on the third floor. I never expected to be a patient there for this long 🙄, another 5-6 months🤦🏻♀️-seems to be my personal time limit, my standard for every new admission place 😂. MyContinue reading “National Rehabilitation Hospital (NRH) 🏥🇮🇪”
@Kate Allatt
🦋 The worst thing about a disability is that people see it before they see you… Remember that disability is just an inability to see ability 🦋 Intensive Care Unit-Żywiec 🇵🇱 The first video I watched in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) was the video of Kate ☝️. Mr P played it for me, gluing hisContinue reading “@Kate Allatt”
☀️An Saol☀️
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☀️”
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”
