Adventures of Pom

The first lockdown was particularly difficult for me to get my head around but I managed to find different things that helped me slowly move forward. As a result I now have/use a few different activities, online shops and services that ordinarily I would not have tried. One thing that really helped me is the activity group provided every Friday by Ataxia UK. It gave me purpose every week by watching the film or reading the book that they were going to discuss and it allowed me to meet new people, even if it is not in person. Volunteers and the service that they provide may be small but it is invaluable tome and I cannot praise them enough. When I was approached by a member of their team who explained that they were still going to have an Ataxia UK conference this year but entirely virtually using zoom and would I be involved, I was happy. Having a virtual conference meant that I could attend. They asked me if I would produce a video for them to show at the conference of how I cope with...

The people close to me will probably know that I have not coped with some of the recent changes to society in the best way. I am not doing too badly now but in March my life completely changed. It was as if my four wheels completely fell off and everything stopped. For the benefit of anybody on the planet that does not know what is going on, that was when Covid-19 was declared a worldwide pandemic and the UK joined many other countries around the world in lockdown. Disabled people such as myself, are considered highly vulnerable and have been given stricter measures to shield and isolate. This is not necessarily because we are at higher risk of getting the deadly disease unless our immune system is compromised; it is because if we do contract it, we are more likely to become seriously ill and die. I do not know anybody who is ill with covid-19 and I do wonder if the statistics have been exaggerated slightly to fulfil a larger government agenda but that is a subject for another arti...