Me and my mate MS

Two weeks tomorrow we will make our move down to Hayling Island.  Moving in the middle of a Pandemic has proved interesting – well that is the polite way of putting it. All the work that needs to be done on the flat to make it accessible has had to be done by my sister and brother in law due to the current restrictions made by the Government to keep us all safe. So it will be like our very own DIY SOS with the unveiling taking place when we move two weeks tomorrow. I am under no illusion that times are hard but they are especially hard when it comes to Adult Social Care. I was told two months ago by my current provider (who fund my entire care package) that I did not need to tell them anything until I had a confirmed moving date, so a month ago I rang them to tell them I had a moving date of the 12 th of December, I also contacted the Local Authority that I am moving to and that is where the fun began! It never occurred to me that the Authority I am moving to wou...

Holidays for our family have always been important mainly because my hubby and I both worked and we wanted to guaranteed two weeks with our daughter, it was also a time for me to give my mate MS a rest. In the early days of diagnoses we went on camping holidays and when our daughter started school we treated ourselves to two weeks in France and would stay in a static caravan. However since taking early retirement due to my MS taking a turn for the worse we have had to give grater thought and planning to our holidays, which I have already talked about in my ‘Friendship’ post when we made our trip to WA in 2013.   My hubby was made redundant in 2015 and we treated ourselves to a trip to Germany. I found out about this hotel when we went to an MS road show in 2014. I have to say the hotel is not everybody’s idea of a place to go on holiday as the hotel only caters for people with disabilities. However for me and my family we found it ideal mainly because of the acc...