Through My Eyes

Seven months

SEVEN MONTHS! Seven months since my last post! I would love to say I’ve been writing a book or poetry, but until October 3rd, I wasn’t a very well chicky. As months passed and the world turned into something we didn’t recognise, many days of mine were spent looking outside focusing on two trees, one […]

jacquijames 10 months agoOctober 15, 2020

The Good, Bad and Ugly

Why I’ve started Through My Eyes

When I begun this little blog, I was 41 and just had a bad experience with a disability worker. I have had lots of experience with human interactions due to being a chatterbox (even through I’m non-verbal – I communicate and write with an eyegaze system), so I’ve had ome awesome, some not so awesome…some […]

jacquijames 5 years agoOctober 27, 2019

Experiences

Dear Victorians:

How are you feeling? Me, I’m very pissed especially at the Federal Government ie: the lack of vaccines And now there are variant strains! Until this lockdown, I was like it’s just the way it is (especially for people like myself) but now they have TWO vaccines but most people have to wait for more […]

jacquijames 2 months agoJune 4, 2021

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jacquijames 2 months agoJune 1, 2021

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The Year That Was 2020

Really… What can I say about 2020? Besides a global pandemic, it seems 2020 hasn’t gone to plan for lots of people. So let me right now say “Fuck off 2020 and don’t let the door’s slapping you on your arse stop you from leaving us!” In a positive light, I think 2020 has forced […]

jacquijames 7 months ago

Electronic Devices Experiences

Choices

2020 started with a different feeling. Maybe feeling disillusioned by the bushfires we had all around Australia which had especially around Christmas. For the first time in years, Mum and I didn’t watch the fireworks on TV (although around 9 pm we went outside and watched fireworks from nearby), but by fluke around midnight I […]

jacquijames 1 year agoMarch 13, 2020

Experiences The Good, Bad and Ugly

Silent Struggles

The other day I got in touch with one my old Tafe friends who has doing her own exhibitions of her illustrations around the state. I had intended to go to one to check her wonderful creative drawings out, but I won’t make it. So I inboxed her instead to congratulate her and told her […]

jacquijames 2 years ago

Experiences The Good, Bad and Ugly

Changes

Sometimes life changes in an instant, making you really think “Life is precious”. Since June Mum and my lives have been shook upside down, but we’ve landed on our feet with Mum’s determination and my acceptance of our new situation we’ve found ourselves in. By the way, Mum is healthy. She had a fall and […]

jacquijames 2 years ago

Experiences

Baby Steps

We’re celebrating a huge achievement! I’m off all my drugs now! No Targin, no Lyrica, no Gabapentin… Only Endone occasionally on my really bad days! It’s been a long journey, since December after my back stimulator operation. I had been on Lyrica and Gabapentin since my 20’s after having an incident causing nerve damage in […]

jacquijames 2 years ago

Experiences The Good, Bad and Ugly

You Can’t Get What You Want, But You Always Get What You Need

Last month was a difficult month. A friendship broke down (I don’t know why to this day, I haven’t even told Mum what went down because I would cry but I think she’s aware because mums know everything), then Roxy our dog gave us a big scare but thankfully she’s healthy for her age! Later […]

jacquijames 2 years ago

The Good, Bad and Ugly

2018 That Ended A Cycle

For those who have known me for the past nineteen years, I was living in a constant, vicious circle of pain and then fatigue, then the fatigue would cause pain and so on. All this was a result of trauma to my lower back. I won’t say how, but it was at no fault of […]

jacquijames 3 years agoDecember 18, 2018