Writer & music teacher. Author of 'Home' @DoubledayUK. Rep'd by @jounwin. Lives with tech-guru, teen techy, teen ♿ sports-whizz and🐶🐶 she/her/cis
Dec 31, 2019 • 22 tweets • 6 min read
This time last year, we were in Edinburgh Sick Kids A&E, hundreds of miles from home, receiving devastating news about our son and the tumour they had found growing in his chest pressing on his spinal cord. What followed is a year I never want to repeat. 1/22
The cancer is, for now, in remission but the paralysis caused by the spinal cord injury remains, though our son's recovery is still evolving so we don't know yet how things will look in the end. 2/22
Oct 10, 2019 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
On #WorldMentalHealthDay I would like to say something about a person I advocate for, about #PIP & @DWP & how, over a period of 18 months, this person's mental health was pushed to crisis point again and again by a system designed not to support mental health but to punish it.
With permission to talk about this from the person involved, I want to tell you about how their mental health deteriorated as a direct result of the #PIP system and @DWP decision making, requiring them to access interventions from community MH team, home-based treatment, A&E...
