Ricky Buchanan
Serving Trolleys For Storing Stuff Close
When you’re bedridden or spend most of your day in one place – like on the sofa – it’s important to be able to have the stuff you need close by. Hospital bed tables are one possibility but they don’t actually have a lot of storage space, and things can easily fall off the edge.
It [...]
Holidays Without Travelling
I recently conducted an email interview with Claire Wade, who runs Holidays From Home.
Ricky: Let’s start off with some background – who are you, where do you live, what does your life involve?
Claire: My name’s Claire Wade, I’m 26 and live in Norfolk, England. I’ve had ME for 16 years, bedbound for 6, now slowly [...]
Welcome to Four Walls No Limits!
Welcome to Four Walls No Limits!
The name Bedbound/Unlimited is no more – as much as I loved the name personally, it didn’t actually reflect the fact that this blog is relevant to anybody who’s couchbound, housebound, or even “just” mostly housebound, as well as those of us who are bedridden.
Cat Scans
Sometimes a little silly humour is the best medicine, especially when your cat won’t stop walking over the scanner.
Using A Desktop Computer In Bed
If your computer is a desktop computer and you are bedridden, don’t despair – there are still options for using your computer in bed. My first “computer in bed” setup was simply to put the computer right beside the bed with the keyboard in my lap! Here are more options.
Coping Skills Question
There’s a new question up at the Experience Project website:
Does anyone have some good coping skills [for] when you are chronically ill and mostly bedbound?
I figure there’s a bunch of people around here qualified to give them some advice! The question can be answered for the next 48 hours, you need to log in to [...]
Disability And Logos
The Hoyden About Town blog has a fantastic post about Representations of Disabled Bodies in Logos.
The post is especially relevant to readers of this blog, and I recommend you read it carefully; view the logos and try to figure out the answer for yourself before scrolling further down to see what Lauredhel has concluded. [...]
Happiness Is Clean Hair
I had my hair washed this morning! This might not seem like a big deal, but the last time it happened was several months ago. I feel absolutely heavenly.
Filling Our Worlds, Online
There’s a great post from JudiElise on the blog Having A Unique Family where she talks about some of the internet-based activities that she fills her time with:
Okay, I know it was just a couple of weeks ago and I was complaining about joining Facebook and Twitter.
I take it all back now. Read More »
Aside [...]
Bedridden Visitor Plan Lacks Bedridden People
In a follow up news article to the last I wrote about, we have this one in England’s Echo News today, “Echo story brings flood of volunteers to help housebound“:
A disabled man’s campaign to launch a befriending scheme for the housebound has received a good response – but not from the bedridden people he wanted [...]
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