Sunday 5 July 2015

#SSS 5th July with @LimbPower @whynotppl @jameelajamil @Swain_1990 @Arctic_ONE @ChoochooGB

Happy Sunday everyone! 




Ok so it's Sunday, I'm a little hungover and I'm back to hating Olives, I'm 100% back to normal now! 
(Apart from the odd scar and missing body parts) 

I've had an amazing couple of weeks! Manic busy, but with lots of great things taking up my time and energy! Well worth the mini bits of stress and panic though! My god did I cause stress and worry with my family on Wednesday!!! (I'll go into that later in the blog) 

Florence Bella Hilton!

It started off wonderful, with my dear friend Charlotte giving birth to her gorgeous baby daughter on Monday 22nd! Happy very first birth day to this little beauty!



"Its with immense pride that Charlotte Hilton and I can announce that at 3:26pm today, weighing in at 9lb and 9oz, our little princess, Florence Bella Hilton arrived into this world after being delivered by an emergency c section. Mum is recovering well and little Florence is being cared for by the neonatal specialists and is getting all the support she needs. We'll update you all as soon as we have anything else to report but in the meantime, here's a picture of our beautiful little angel. Xxx" 

I went to Milton Keynes with my Nanny J,  to meet a lovely surgeon from Sydney, Munjed Al Marids.  It was very interesting to hear more about this cool alternative to a general prosthetic leg.
I've made a few friends who have had the surgery and they are so happy with it. It's not a necessity for me, just a cool alternative.


Currently I don't struggle too much with my general NHS leg, it does the job! I want to feel totally free from any type of pain or nuisance though. It can be annoying if I go on a long walk and it get's uncomfortable. And I do want to get more and more active, so that's going to get more and more annoying and painful.

I think it's a great option to have this surgery and not have to worry about the relationship you have with your leg attachments.

To read more about it and Munjed Al Marids, click here

I want to have this operation!!! It's not on the NHS though, so I think I'll wait until I'm back at work before getting it done, I don't want to use my current money on an operation and flights to Australia, when I'm currently unemployed! That would be reckless, I'm trying to work on my reckless spending at the moment, so I won't sign up for this operation just yet! 

But they can certainly put me on their waiting list for it!!

I met a lovely chap called Michael Swain, who did a little talk at the conference as well as Munjed. It was great to meet him, as we had spoken briefly on Facebook. He's doing so well with his Osseointergration and seeing how well he is walking, really makes me want to have it done! 





I know a young lady called Viktorija too who had this operation a couple of years ago and she's loving it! I met her at the weekend at the LimbPower event. I'll hopefully meet up with this lovely lady again soon. 


Unfortunately I missed an event I was interested in going to on the Sunday after the conference. The Arctic One para-tri, an event at Dorney Lake. As I said above, I want to get more and more active, stronger and capable with my leg, so I really want to do this Triathlon! I wanted to check out the venue for the event Arctic One run, and I also wanted to meet some of the lovely people I've met online with the organisation. 
It's a shame I missed this one, but I'll hopefully make the next event they do, which is the 'Aquathon' in August. Click here to see the event.

I'm well up for this, I go swimming a lot with Anna, 2 or 3 times a week, so I'm trying to edge her into doing it with me! It would be fun to give it a go. Although I normally do a casual brest stroke in the swimming baths, so I'm not sure how this would go down in a lake! It's definitely worth a go anyway!  So COME ON ANNA!!


Why Not People 

So I went to the first Why Not People event on Wednesday 1st July.
I won a competition too apparently, some sort of RT on Twitter or something . So I got to go backstage and chat with Jameela Jamil. That was cool. I didn't really know what to say or ask though as I had completely forgotten about it. So it was more of a friendly chat really. 

She told me that she got her friend, who has a disability and was a virgin at 28, laid through the whole Why Not People craze! I was like, you should set up a dating site called "Why Not Date me?" for Why Not members to go on dates together. I'd definitely download it onto my phone and flirt with everyone! 

OH MY GOD! IT WAS AMAZING!!!


I met some lovely people! A young lad in the cue called David, who had also come on his own. Then I was sitting with two lovely ladies Karen and her daughter Shannon. These two were great fun and I can't wait to meet them again at the next WNP event. 

Those of you who know how much I love my music, will know that if a song really touches my heart, I get emotional! If it resonates with a particular event, person or meaning it can even make me cry! I'm not a big cryer, but an emotional song can really tug at my heart strings and occasionally, I drop a tear! 


So ... I'm just going to say it.... Tinie did that to me! He made me cry!! 

Now this was a happy tear of course! I think it was just the whole meaning of the event and how important it was for me. It is so incredibly important for people to be able to go and enjoy gigs, regardless of their abilities or disabilities. 

No one should be segregated into a "safe" corner on the side. Why can't they just be assisted in whatever way they need, in the middle of all the fun! They should not be plonked into a side section of an event, just because they are sitting in a wheel chair, the event should be considerate to these people, and get others to not stand and jump around in front of them. 

Glastonbury does have a cool stand for people in wheelchairs to sit up on, which is safe for them to see the acts playing, of course drunk people at Glastonbury aren't going to calm down for people in wheelchairs.  They might even lift the chair up and start crowd surfing the person, which is what my friends would probably do! 

So this was the time at Glastonbury when I cried to Stevie Wonder.


Now I'm not saying this is the same way as me crying at the Why Not People launch, because I was probably in a very different mind set and state at this time. God knows what was in my blood stream. But the feeling of  the crowd was just so amazing and overwhelming that I got all teary!
Happy tears of course, but then also a bit of sad tears, because I was totally amazed by how incredible it looked there in that moment, with a HUGE crowd of happy people and poor Stevie couldn't see it! 
I literally thought, I would love to give him my eyes just to take this amazing sight in! (Not that my sight is any good,  but I seriously wanted him to be able to see the crowd and the way he was making us all so happy!) 

I'm a sensitive soul at times. Especially with a few beers in me! 

LimbPower - Manic Marafun 

So, this weekend, Anna and I went down to Stoke Mandeville for an event with LimbPower. The Manic Marafun. Lots of lovely amputees, families and supporters all got involved to have a great time and raise a bit of money for Limbpower,

Anna and I set up 2 just giving pages, with a target of £200 each for donations to LimbPower. 

With more money and support they can do even more then they are right now. And what they do throughout the year is just amazing! 

My Just Giving page states;

 "26 amputees will be doing a 1 mile walk/hop/wheel/dance/run/slide/cartwheel/rollypolly around the stadium field. All dressed up in silly costumes! Anna and I are dressing up as the tortoise & the hare! 

LimbPower support many amputees in the UK, they hold events throughout the year for fun activities and get togethers for old friends! It's a great way to meet people going through similar struggles and just supporting one another."

They are an incredibly important foundation to me and I want to help them out in any way  I can throughout the year! 

 

Anna had great support too and was able to reach £245 click here to see these lovely people too!

Gosh, look how white my leg was! you can hardly see where my shorts stop and leg starts! haha

I raised a whopping £370 for LimbPower! To see there kind donations click here.


My favourite part of the event was at the end when we all did a big conga around the track! 


We got home yesterday evening and were both tired from the activities and travelling. But my mate Adam from my old job at One Black Bear came round to visit me. It was lovely to catch up with him, I hadn't seen him since my accident so we had loads and loads of things to catch up on. 

Especially when the little shit hadn't even been reading my blogs! EVER! He'll probably read this one today, so Ad I'll be testing you to see what you do and don't know ;) You better start the beginning! 

As you can see I caught a bit of sun while at Stoke Mandeville. I stupidly didn't put any sun cream on and my poor leg got a little burnt! With scars down my leg from skin grafts taken, you'd think I'd be extra careful in the sun! Stupid of me not to be! 

I need to go shopping this week for a nice sari for my cousin Martina's wedding this September and the Bollywood Ball with Limbpower in November and saris are pretty expensive, so i need to find a nice one soon! 


So this week I'm going to be swimming my little ass off to try and get fit enough to complete the Arctic One event in August. That will be a cool achievement. I'll keep you posted on it all anyway. 

Chao for now x 

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