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Celebrate National Stroke Week 12th-18th September 2011

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ABC Radio Nightlife Program – "Recovering from a Stroke"

Download ABC Radio Nightlife program with Tony Delroy on “Recovering from a Stroke”, in which Emma features at http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/local/nightlife/nightlife_m2019598.mp3 Emma reflects on this Interview in [...]

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Glad wrapping my Eye-ball….

In my six years as a stroke survivor I’ve undergone pretty invasive things to attempt to “normalise” my appearance and vision – my view of [...]

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"Never give up in life…"

I received this feedback today from one of my audience members. Despite often encouraging others to stop and reflect, I confess to often not doing [...]

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Stroke 'is not a life sentence'

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Anything's possible

What’s possible in your life? I always thought I’d be married, have children and a full-time job at this age. But when I stroked at [...]

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Choose to love life

“Are you better now?” my cleaner asks me. To be honest, I don’t really know how to answer that. I feel fine, but I guess [...]

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Partnerships – Are they good or bad?

I don’t know about you, but when I think of the word ‘partnership’ I see it as a positive relationship with another that facilitates, guides [...]

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Excuses

“Too tired”, “Not enough time”, “Not enough money”, “Lots of work” – the list of excuses is endless. Even longer when you acquire a physical [...]

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You have to laugh:)

Waiting for a taxi’s bad enough. But when it’s raining and you’ve got other appointments, it’s even more frustrating. Today was worse. I waited patiently [...]

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