From weightlifting to winging it, my shoulder saga, week two
It has been two weeks since my shoulder surgery, and this past week has taught me three valuable lessons. First, drugs like oxycodone can turn your brain into marshmallow. Second,...
From weightlifting to winging it, my shoulder saga, week one
A few weeks ago, I fell and dislocated my shoulder. I wrote about that experience at the time, and you can read it here. Today, I’m dictating another blog entry...
Oops! I Did It Again: The Art of Complicated Injuries
It started like any other Sunday. The radio was on, Mardi and I were reading: I was lamenting another loss by the Rabbitohs while Mardi caught up on her X...
Traveling with Low Vision: Five Essential Tips
Sometimes our eyesight lets us down. In my case, my vision has been a challenge since I was born. For over 50 years, I've experienced low vision, and through extensive...
As I See it…The Joy of Pets
In 2007 we bought a brand-new Audi A3. It took us about 10 minutes to make the decision. A few years later we adopted the most gorgeous red nosed pit...
As I see it…How I see it
I am often asked, “so how much can you see”. Or I hear comments from time to time from folks who don’t know me, “You’re not blind!”. Blindness is a spectrum,...
As I see it…Catching Covid
The Chronicles of Cairns… As a regular traveller for Vision Australia Thursday night in early June 2022 before I travel to Cairns was like any other night. I pack. I review my itinerary. I check in with my wife...
As I see it…the COVID Chronicles
Two years ago it started. None of us knew what we were in for. There has been highs and lows, days when we thought it was over, days when we...
As I see it…it is more than a game
It's 1975, a week before Grand Final day in Sydney, my father tries to convert me. He is an avid Roosters supporter: they’ve overcome Manly and are playing St George...
As I see it…searching for normal
A topic of discussion among my friends, family, colleagues has been: will life ever get back to normal? I’m no Nostradamus and I suppose what is normal? Normal 100 years...