It is the moment which changes your life. Sometimes it feels like it is the moment which ends it. The life you knew is gone, you are post diagnosis, AD, your own new millennium. One friend was told on her birthday that her bones were crumbling, not a happy gift. This Conference is how to get diagnosed and how to deal with it when you do. Pitching up in the waiting room and saying you are “tired” or have a “funny pain” isn’t going to get you what you need, but the doctors don’t have time to do the detective work. So here we bypass the need for fluency in…

I am here now. I am alive and proud of it. I am in love, and I love so hard. I am a challenge and a challenger. I am a frond waving in the clear blue sky. I am a pale white sun lover. I am inside, sitting. I am wearing a sky blue shirt from Jermyn Street. I am wearing the cuff links I bought with Linus from Debenhams in Swansea on a cloudy spring day. I am dreaming of the seaside. I am aching, hurting, sore and sweet with it. I am a woman, I am everything I ever-never-ever wanted. I am someone who uses hyperbole in her…

Healing Boxes is so excited to be featured in The Times today! We want to offer a warm welcome to the new visitors who read about us in The Times and let you know that you can contact us with any questions and we are ready to get a lovely box of goodies posted off to you or your loved ones today! We are so proud to be featured among the UK’s disabled entrepreneurs and were interested in the conclusions drawn in the article between the opportunities for the paralympics and those for disabled people in business. Would love to hear your thoughts on this topic. We are discussing on our…