by Geraldine Lavelle | Aug 1, 2023 | Living
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....
by Geraldine Lavelle | Jul 31, 2023 | Living
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...
by Geraldine Lavelle | Jul 31, 2023 | Living
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,...
by Geraldine Lavelle | Jul 31, 2023 | Living
Did Dickinson get it wrong? Maybe she should have written “The Indominable spirit is the thing with feathers that perches in all of us trying to find hope in this bleak world”. Does it take an undefeatable will to jostle the individual out of existential complacency....
by Geraldine Lavelle | Mar 15, 2023 | Living
Thank you Mary Lou McDonald – Sinn Féin for advocating on my behalf to Stephen Donnelly TD, Minister for Health. See below: A Aire, a chara, I have copied the Minister of State for Disability, the Head of Disability Services Community Healthcare...
by Geraldine Lavelle | Mar 1, 2023 | Living
Don’t be a victim; Be a Survivor!