Experiences – Through My Eyes

Ablism – What Is It?

Watching The Last Leg with Adam Hills (you can watch the episode on iVew) last night I realized I hadn’t really investigated the word “Ablism” before. I had heard of it, but I hadn’t really thought it would be applicable to me. However, when I came across this from HERE, it blew my mind. Since […]

jacquijames 2 weeks ago

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 4 months agoJune 4, 2021

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 1 year agoOctober 15, 2020

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 2 years 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 3 years ago

Experiences The Good, Bad and Ugly

A Life-Changer Procedure

I’ve been quiet for a couple of months because I was gearing up for two operations and they ended up being just under a month apart. Then after the second op I got bronchitis which I’m still getting over but I’m much better than I was thanks to some superdooper antibiotics. Thanks to my Neurologist […]

jacquijames 3 years agoOctober 20, 2018

Experiences Poetry The Good, Bad and Ugly

Looking From The Outside

If you look at me from the outside You might assume she just sits at her computer achieving nothing, Looking at my spamsing body You might be fooled into assuming this, And I don’t make a contribution to the society… This couldn’t be further from the truth. ‘ Even though I have had more bad […]

jacquijames 3 years agoSeptember 26, 2018