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Hello From Hospital

May 22, 2014 by Mik Scarlet

  If you’re wondering why it’s all gone quiet in the world of Mik it’s because I have had to go into hospital. Yes after nearly two years of battling an injury I picked up at the Paralympic Games Opening Ceremonies, it was decided I needed to have an operation

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Filed Under: News Tagged With: illness, RNOH, surgery

Sick Boy’s Thought’s from a Sick Bed

March 15, 2014 by Mik Scarlet

Well it’s been a crap week. Last Thursday night I went to bed with a pain in my left hip. By the morning an injury I incurred in 2012, during the rehearsals for the Paralympic Games, had flared up. In fact it later transpired it was infected and by the

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: doctors., gp, illness, work

New column in the Huffington Post

August 15, 2013 by Mik Scarlet

My latest column has gone live on the Huffington Post. This one is called Thoughts From a Sickbed and explores the issues of hidden disabilities, illness and work. Hope you like it. Be great to hear what you think too.

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Filed Under: News Tagged With: benefits, Disability, huffington post, illness, mik scarlet

Right to Die? Right to Live is better!

April 18, 2013 by Mik Scarlet

Yet again the press is filled with the story of a campaigner who are going to court to end the terrible suffering of their life as a disabled person. This it is Paul Lamb who is claiming that his life is should be ended at the hands of the medical

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Assisted Suicide, benefits, depression, Disability, disabled, discrimination, equality, euthanasia, illness, mik scarlet, mindfullness, Pain, Paul Lamb, portrayal, pride

Good news: Big Smiles and No More Mr Grumpy!?

July 2, 2012 by Mik Scarlet

Baby Mik, during my treatment for cancer – the spiky hair was caused by the chemo! Today has been a good day. This morning I had an appointment with a surgeon, who gave me the great news that I don’t have cancer! “What’s this?” I hear you say. Yes, for

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: cancer, chemotherapy, death, grumpy, illness, moody, neuroblastoma, remission, temper, tumour

Sill Ill

March 8, 2012 by Mik Scarlet

What a crazy month March has turned out to be. I had planned to write my second travelogue, about a recent weekend away in Penzance, but I will save that for later. Instead I wanted to write something about why March has not been a high point of 2012 for

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Disability, enjoying life, illness, infection, medical model, sieze the day, social model

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