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Tag Archives: cerebral-palsy

WIN! Family tickets to In the Night Garden LIVE (worth £70)!

May 13, 2013 at 21:12

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Win tickets

May and Ieuan are OBSESSED with In the Night Garden. Ieuan wakes up in the morning to ask for his “SHOW!” and goes to sleep the same way. (We are a pro-TV household.) Ieuan learned to touch his nose from the Tombliboos and blow kisses from Upsy Daisy. And when the show begins, at the first [...]

Councillor expounds further on why kids like May “should be put down”

May 12, 2013 at 12:41

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You wanna fight me?

Earlier this week, I wrote about the councillor in Cornwall who thinks disabled babies should be “put down”. Not satisfied with his new policy to save the government money by euthanising children, Colin Brewer has made further statements to the press. Here is a segment of his interview with Disability News Service: Brewer said:  “If they [...]

What do you think of our theory about May’s pain?

May 11, 2013 at 22:49

Mama Lewis

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May started giggling last night. A frothy, snorting childish giggle that bore no resemblance to the screams of late. It was wonderful. But, May’s troubles were not over. My husband and I escaped for a few hours today, but only down the road to a coffee shop. I wasn’t there long before May’s careworker phoned. [...]

Why you haven’t heard from me…

May 10, 2013 at 12:29

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May crying

Sometimes life with May is no picnic. This week has been a crashing disaster. I’ve been reticent to write about just how awful it has been because I don’t want the other special needs parents who read my blog to think life is a misery. And I don’t want to rehash it in a flood [...]

“Disabled children should be put down” says re-elected councillor

May 6, 2013 at 21:54

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Collin Brewer said children like May should be "put down"Collin Brewer said children like May should be "put down"

Re-elected. That’s what happens to politicians in Cornwall who say disabled children should be killed off. (Sorry, Cornwall but if you live there I imagine you are even more enraged than I am.) Collin Brewer, Independent councillor for Cornwall, made the comments to Disability Cornwall at an information event at County Hall in Truro in [...]