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https://www.con-telegraph.ie/2023/04/17/mayo-woman-awarded-alumni-award-by-university-of-galway/

by Geraldine Lavelle | April 18, 2023 | Home Page | 0 Comments

https://www.con-telegraph.ie/2023/04/17/mayo-woman-awarded-alumni-award-by-university-of-galway/

Please sign my petition for independent living.

by Geraldine Lavelle | February 23, 2023 | Home Page, Living | 0 Comments

Who is affected? There are countless individuals like myself trying to move out from a clinical residential setting or a hospital environment but due to lack of ‘community supports’ like home helps and personal assistant's this is not always possible. ...

Those who need help need to be heard.

by Geraldine Lavelle | February 15, 2023 | Home Page, Living | 1 Comment

Despite numerous challenges and difculties, as well as failure and opposition, my steady persistence to secure a home for myself in my old community of Castlebar has been constant. I am not alone in my struggle for self-contained living. There are countless other...

Book Launch

by admin | November 24, 2022 | Home Page | 0 Comments

In 2013, while out for a routine cycle, Geraldine Lavelle’s life changed in an instant when she was involved in an horrific road accident. The Castlebar woman suffered a spinal cord injury that left three-quarters of her body paralysed. Overnight, Geraldine had to...

Newstalk

https://www.newstalk.com/news/im-fighting-just-to-live-in-a-home-disabled-womans-care-package-cancelled-last-minute-1495778

I am a different person’: Living with life-changing injuries as a result of road crashes

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlight/arid-41216605.html

Waiting for help to move home: ‘The stress has taken a toll on my health. I am 36 but I feel like 66’

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2023/08/09/the-stress-has-taken-a-toll-on-my-health-i-am-36-but-i-feel-like-66/

Timeline of events since my injury.

Spinal cord injury October 2013. Rehabilitation until July 2014 Cheshire July 3month proposed stay until house in community became available. House in community identified 2017. Work on house seized to commence due to covid 2019-2021. Work recommences 2021-March 2023....

Lost in this system.

I have had so many health issues in the last 9years it is inconceivable for a 36year old. But the part that I find challenging is NOT so much the health part but living in a system where there is no room for a person with a disability. I first was introduced to...

Have I changed as a person?

My situation may have changed, my body is different, but in many ways, I am still the same. The situation only highlighted my weaknesses and strengths. Learning to live with a disability is so complex in every way. I do think the situation will ask everything of you,...

Timeline of events since my injury.

Aug 1, 2023

Spinal cord injury October 2013. Rehabilitation until July 2014 Cheshire July 3month proposed stay...

Lost in this system.

Jul 31, 2023

I have had so many health issues in the last 9years it is inconceivable for a 36year old. ...

https://www.con-telegraph.ie/2023/04/17/mayo-woman-awarded-alumni-award-by-university-of-galway/

Apr 18, 2023 | Home Page

https://www.con-telegraph.ie/2023/04/17/mayo-woman-awarded-alumni-award-by-university-of-galway/

Please sign my petition for independent living.

Feb 23, 2023 | Home Page, Living

Who is affected? There are countless individuals like myself trying to move out from a clinical residential setting or a hospital environment but due to lack of ‘community supports’ like home helps and personal assistant's this is not always possible. ...

Those who need help need to be heard.

Feb 15, 2023 | Home Page, Living

Despite numerous challenges and difculties, as well as failure and opposition, my steady persistence to secure a home for myself in my old community of Castlebar has been constant. I am not alone in my struggle for self-contained living. There are countless other...

Open Book - Interview

by Louise Cooney

https://open.spotify.com/episode/132uqtlhT7kLZQCsMBhPr3?si=W0y_R-CLTi2WgptmnBdnYA&utm

RTE Radio 1 Reflections

by Geraldine Lavelle

https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/21987893/

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