After all the excitement of the flying, I thought I would take the time to do a bit of a general update. The last couple of weeks has seen a lot of hospital appointments with various outcomes. I saw my shoulder consultant, who is also my elbow consultant, but we will cover that later. Shoulder wise, the surgery hasn’t been a wild success as it is still subluxing at the front. We are therefore looking at other options. So I was sent to a specialist physio at the national orthopaedic hospital. The long and short of it is that we will continue with physio to try and strengthen my muscles as I have little power in my shoulder and none when it has subluxed. However, I may have to come to terms wi

I had a couple of shocks. One was when I was leaving the hotel after the FSDP scholarship and a lady asked if I wanted help with my case. I politely declined and she explained that her husband is disabled and she always tries to offer other disabled people help where she can. It’s the first time I realised that strangers on the street view me as disabled. The other was from my sister, I am very good at hiding my feelings and I don’t think many realised where I was from a mental health point of view, when I started my FSDP journey. My sister said to me that she couldn’t believe reading my article about my experience of Cranwell and in particular the interview – that’s not my kick-ass sister,