Tag Archives: chronic illness

How to build your health team so that you get the support you need to improve your wellbeing

This post gives you seven positive tips that you can do to help you get the most from your health care team. It’s difficult to build a “team” when the team doesn’t communicate to each other, often have no idea they’re on the team, and there is no common understanding of how each player contributes to your wellbeing.

Blokarts can be an inclusive sport for people with disabilities

Blokarting was an inclusive experience that worked for my disabled hands and feet. I enjoyed the speed and trying out a new sport.

Hiking poles: more stability and less pain so you can walk faster and longer

I view adaptive equipment like an athlete. Adaptive equipment will enable me to live life the way I want to. I don’t have to “bad enough” to use it. I use it because it enables me to do the things I want to do. Hiking poles make me feel like superman.

Heli Ski tips to help you get the most out of your first heli ski

It was the middle of our New Zealand lockdown and it was 8 April, our 20th wedding anniversary. We had planned an overseas trip in January, but couldn’t take it because my husband injured himself. The weekend he was finally cleared to drive, was the weekend New Zealand went into lockdown. We’d gone from oneContinue reading “Heli Ski tips to help you get the most out of your first heli ski”

Making Exercise Stick

For those of you who don’t know me, I’ve got a type of spondyloarthropathy, which is in my spine, hands and feet, arms and legs. It mostly affects my tendons, where they attach to the bones (enthesitis). I’ve had this disease for about 9 years. In the past, I often chose to rest on theContinue reading “Making Exercise Stick”

Riding a Chairlift in a Sit Ski

Riding a Chairlift in a Sit Ski Making the invisible visible When I’m not riding my sit ski up the maunga (mountain), at first glance I look just like everyone else. It’s not until you spend time with me that you notice that my hands don’t work right or that I can’t stand for veryContinue reading “Riding a Chairlift in a Sit Ski”