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I thought it would be useful to write a little bit about some of the other Cerebral Palsy bloggers that I have found so far, if any of my eight regular readers know of any more please let me know;

Irascible Ink

Irascible Ink is the first cerebral palsy blog that I discovered way ( Read more... )

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Shortly after writing my last post about coming off my bike I lost my senses and decided it would be a good idea to google my symptoms. This lead to me eventually reading about collapsed lungs, pneumonia and all sorts of other nastiness.

I fail at going to see the doctor, to ( Read more... )

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I’ve been cycling quite regularly ever since I reached the conclusion that it is a good way to help deal with the various spasticity issues which I previous used to use alcohol to deal with. I’ve become so keen on the cycling that I’ve been doing it in all weather, no matter how ( Read more... )

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Following on from my Six year anniversary post, I think it would be a good idea to shift the site on to an address that actually makes sense. The original concept for orodor.org.uk was that it would be a site that I shared with Anna, the name itself is a amalgamation of our ( Read more... )

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Despite being the most noticeable symptom of hemiplegia no-one ever really mentions the way that I walk, or hemiplegic gait to use the proper terminology. Funnily enough the most commented upon symptom that I show is one that I suspect no-one realises is even related to Cerebral ( Read more... )

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The end of this month sees the sixth anniversary of me owning orodor.org.uk and it’s quite sad to think that even at only one post a month, this is probably the most successful incarnation of the site to date.

I’ve decided that I need to make more of an effort in order to ( Read more... )

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In my last post, almost a month ago, I wrote about Spasticity, it’s most negative effects and my increasing reliance upon alcohol to deal with it. I finished the post off hoping that announcing my problems to the internet would help me to get my arse in gear, and indeed it has! ( Read more... )

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I’ve been rather busy over the past six weeks, hence the lack of updates. It’s so easy to let things slip, which I guess is why so many of my previous attempts at blogging have failed.

In my last post I said I would write about the various symptoms of CP and how they affect me ( Read more... )

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Cerebral Palsy is generally caused by injuries and abnormalites of the brain, usually damage to the motor control centers, it most commonly occurs before birth but can happen any time up until around 2 years old.

Cerebral refers to the cerebrum, which is the affected area of the ( Read more... )

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Welcome to the latest incarnation of my blog, a few of the previous attempts didn’t go too well but I’m hoping things will be different this time around. This time I decided that it should be a little more focused and in turn have decided that I would like to write about my ( Read more... )