There has been much in the news lately about Ramsay Hunt syndrome, which I was bestruck by some twenty-five years ago. At the time I was facilitating a group and one member said to me ‘Judi, I think you have had a stroke’ – there was no pain at the time and at that point … [Read more…]
The urologist looked startled. Silence vacillated in the consulting room for a few torturing minutes. My client, a man in his thirties who has a diagnosis of cerebral palsy and mild intellectual disability, was watching us trying to hide his anxious anticipation behind his smile. I had just asked the urologist to review a sexual … [Read more…]
Many mornings I wake up and, though for increasingly less time, am still transported back into my real body, where I sit up, stretch, plan my clothes, the calls I must make, the day’s activities. Then full wakefulness kicks in and I realise that I am trapped in an alien body, which has taken over … [Read more…]