
The Struggle Is Wheel
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Highlighting our own experiences of ♿adventures & ableism as a couple in Ireland 🧭 Spinal Cord Injury
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Wonderful representation on BBC Countryfile tonight. This is inclusion at work. Showing people that your disability doesn’t have to hold you back is so very important. Given the chance and with the ability to adapt our chairs even we can be farmers, sheep farmers at that!!!!


It is with the heaviest of hearts that myself and Stephen Morrison have to announce that our little rockstar Harvey passed away this morning with us by his side 💔 arrangements to follow and it will be open to any and all of you who have supported him throughout his short life



On 18th September Simon Harris TD promised to meet with myself and Stephen to discuss Harvey’s lack of care. 10 months on and that meeting never happened, and now Harvey is gone. On the day we were celebrating Harvey’s short life and saying our final goodbyes, he was posting



Just thought it would also interest (and anger) people to know that bar Harvey’s orthopaedic surgeon, nobody in Children's Health Ireland temple street has even bothered to pick up the phone to offer condolences. The same people that have been in charge of Harvey’s care for the last 9.5 years





Email to Simon Harris TD dated 21st October 2024. No meeting ever happened. #JusticeForHarvey #ResignHarris



There have to be consequences. “by the end of this year (2017) no child will wait longer for a scoliosis procedure than 4 months”. - Simon Harris Listen to Harvey's Dad Stephen Morrison on our health system that failed his son. May he rest in peace. #JusticeForHarvey

Hi folks, thank you for your continued support as we fight to get #JusticeForHarvey Please tune in tonight to 📻 Newstalk’s The Hard Shoulder with Kieran Cuddihy where he will speak with other parents at 5pm, followed by Amanda of the Spina Bifida & Hydrocephalus Paeds Advocacy#backus at 6pm. 📺 RTÉ News TV will also





This Minister sought to introduce legislation to compulsorily medically examine #Disabled Irish Citizens for ‘work’ - #NotMyPresident #Ableist ‘To tell you the truth, I’m giving a run very serious consideration’ – Heather Humphreys now in race for Áras independent.ie/irish-news/to-…

In the context of Dire & Tragic situation endured by #Disabled Irish children #Carers & families -This is a tone deaf & offensive propaganda reel from an openly #Ableist Government The Scoliosis Advocacy Network #BackUs OrthoKidsIreland Infuriatingly offensive & wildly out of step with lived experience