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		<title>Keeping your Eyes on the Job in Hand: Solutions for your Eyesight Problems</title>
		<link>http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/2012/01/keeping-your-eyes-on-the-job-in-hand-solutions-for-your-eyesight-problems.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal story]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Denise Watson When eyesight goes wrong, it leaves you with a myriad of changes and, though it is impossible to generalise, you are almost always left with a need to re-assess your lifestyle. Doing so may also affect the lives of those close to you, as shared responsibilities become less accessible or you find [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Getting Through the Door is a Challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Denise Watson Before the arrival of the Disability Discrimination Act in the United Kingdom in 1995, wheelchair users sometimes had a loss in privacy due to not being able to go about their own business.  Old buildings didn’t have lifts, they sometimes had steep steps taking you up to the entrance door and offices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Birth and Development of the Wheelchair.</title>
		<link>http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/2011/11/the-birth-and-development-of-the-wheelchair.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/?p=975</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is difficult to say when the idea of the wheelchair was first thought of though a stone slate in China which is said to date back to the sixth century showed an inscription which indicated a very crude version was in existence then.  Another historical recording states that an ‘invalid chair’ was invented in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Old’ or ‘Disabled’?  That is the Question.</title>
		<link>http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/2011/11/%e2%80%98old%e2%80%99-or-%e2%80%98disabled%e2%80%99-that-is-the-question.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/?p=963</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[1st. October 2011. Dear Diary, I’m trying to get my head round the terms ‘disabled’ and ‘old age’. I know that one can come on well before the other, that there is a sort of ‘set time’ for old age but I’m wondering ‘does old age make you disabled?’ It’s 10 o’clock. Goodnight. 3rd. October [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Sense of it All</title>
		<link>http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/2011/10/making-sense-of-it-all.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Suggestions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[eyesight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feeling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hearing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[senses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[touch]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/?p=955</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Denise Watson The five senses – sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell.  Though we can’t imagine life without them, we probably don’t know how valuable they are until they’re not there anymore.Sight is so very important.  They do say that only five per cent of people registered blind can’t see but we’re still talking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being Caught Short and Personal Hygiene: Some Solutions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/?p=935</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever been caught short? I have but it’s always been my own fault. ‘I must finish what I’m doing, before I go to the loo’ or ‘ten minutes and I’ll be home’ – that kind of thing. And there are certain trigger points too, like when the key goes in the door lock, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Pursuit of the Perfect Pursuit</title>
		<link>http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/2011/09/in-pursuit-of-the-perfect-pursuit.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 10:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How hobbies can help with chronic pain By Claire Hovey Hobbies, pastimes, pursuits, diversions, distractions, sideline amusements – all wildly underrated gadgets in the DIY pain-buster toolbox. This month’s blog is sponsored by the couch as I’m enjoying a delicious flare-up that is so disruptive, it can only be welcomed as an opportunity to watch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Residential Care: Why it may not be for you, and what you can do instead</title>
		<link>http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/2011/09/residential-care-alternative.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 09:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[denise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[residential care]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/?p=907</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Denise Watson If you haven’t worked in residential care, you won’t understand the lifestyle and may not be able to appreciate how life for the new incumbent changes. Let me give you an insight into what can be expected, though all homes are different:- The morning staff come on duty and all residents are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sciatica: Untrapping that trapped nerve</title>
		<link>http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/2011/08/sciatica-untrapping-that-trapped-nerve.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/2011/08/sciatica-untrapping-that-trapped-nerve.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pain]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/?p=889</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Denise Watson Denise explores Sciatica, the problems it causes, and the solutions and aids that can help. Have you ever had a trapped nerve in your leg – you know, at the point where that ball of the femur bone fits into the hip socket? If you haven’t, let me tell you that it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Acute v. Chronic: Just what is the difference?</title>
		<link>http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/2011/08/acute-chronicdifference.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/2011/08/acute-chronicdifference.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 09:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[compulsive obstructive pulmonary disease]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Denise, her battle with chronic COPD (compulsive obstructive pulmonary disease), and the aids that helped. By Denise Watson Doctor to Patient – “Mrs. Smith, you have acute angina.” Patient’s response – “Now doctor, I haven’t come here to be admired.” Just what does ‘acute’ mean and is ‘chronic’ better or worse? When my doctor told [...]]]></description>
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