I had some fun today looking for a suitable "eye" to use for my logo.With the name Consumer Insight, I have to use an eye, don't eye?

Objective: find a picture with a strong gaze that draws your attention.

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I had a visitor today. One of the health assistants from hospital. She had brought her children and I felt a distinct, yet somehow absurd, feeling that it was not my social company but a little more that was on the agenda...

I had some good news today about my care and Social Services have decided to canc a £4000 bill for 1 month of care, phew! (I was initially quite disturbed by this but eventually just decided "Que Sera", what will be will be, afterall what good is faith if you don't get to exercise it!

I haven't had the normal barrage of comments from the hecklers,I hope you are still there? !

As the weekend draws nearer I need to begin thinking about the way it will progress. Monday is a bank holiday (public holiday). I will probably have Alex over on Saturday night and we will have some time to discuss things like football, school etc. He is a polite, quiet lad but can get very animated about football and his team, Liverpool.

I decided to sell some shares and buy the exercise machine for my arms and legs. Its a huge outlay at this time and it will be worth it if it can give me some improvement. I long to be able to lift my arms again.


Well here's a picture and I'll see you next time....

Hi all I have been wanting to write for ages but things kept getting in the way. On the weekend it was my kids which I like to devote my time towards. I am also working with a new carer. Nice girl from New Zealand, but I have explained its a 2 week trial so she will be doing her best. I vowed I would not employ any female carers but I had no choice due to timing.

So looking at consultancy, I know its going to be tough and I don't want to get into anything just to earn a living so I have to constantly remind myself that. I will do anything that involves innovative consumer insight that opens new doorways to consumer products or marketing. I reckon most products or services suffer from a lack of understanding about the relationship with the consumer. I am going to trade as "Ladwig Consumer Insight " so I am looking to do a website with the name www.ladwig.co.uk/consumer insight/. Any web designers out there?

OK here's another thing, I need to train the old body if I want to get better. So I am looking at the Thera-vital a device that provides assistance to you and will adjust to your ability. It can exercise arms and legs. Here's the catch, it costs £3745 in the UK. So here we go...

Since being back I have kept busy with all my systems to get them working optimally. I haven't forgotten my promise to tell you more about my hospital "adventure ".

Stoke Mandeville is a big hospital,spreading out over several blocks along Mandeville Road in Aylesbury. The Spinal section has played a key role in its development. Arriving back after 2.5 years was a mixture of feelings. I remembered the good relationships I had forged with patients and staff. I remembered my arrival from Germany by sky ambulance and the room I had for 3 weeks before I moved. I remembered not eating or talking for 6 months. Nurses became friends. Linda visited daily and spent the day with me.Which was my only communication with the world, she was my voice. It was a battle for her as she was fighting breast-cancer and the effects of treatment. When it became too much and the experience finally took its toll her visits reduced. The memory left is a feeling of loneliness and frustration.

Don't misunderstand me. I found a way to smile and beguile my way into many hearts to help me with the emptiness and isolation. I was never fulfilled or happy during my stay but I was driven by a fierce independence that enabled me to leave before it became too difficult. So often patients are drawn in to the life and routine so that to leave is too difficult.

I met a great doctor on this trip. He is my consultant, Mr Dennis Newton,from South Africa! So its not all bad.

I'm back! After 1 week at Stoke Mandeville Hospital I discharged myself. I was tested for the hospital bug,MRSA and came up positive. This required me to be isolated and have reduced access to therapy. So I decided it was better to leave.

Let's talk about the NHS for a moment. How do they manage to take a working formulae and make such a mess of it?Take Stoke Mandeville Spinal Unit. It was once the premier site for spinal treatment in the world. Now it lags behind what other countries offer and struggles to get anywhere. I sat in a patients forum on Thursday night listening to the debate. It stinks. The way we manage hospitals now is like putting the companies secretary in charge! Everything is all teas and toilets or to put it another way, its like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Well I must dash. I have much to organise, now that I'm back. I will write again about Doctors Nurses and hospital, but for now thanks for all your wishes and support.

In all my life have I ever felt so disconnected. The world, people and all I hold dear and important, seems distant and unreachable. Even my own body is a stranger to me now.

My somber mood must not not be mistaken for a melancholy attack. I give you real thoughts and feelings from some nasty, scary places.

Yesterday the virus I have been battling all week, gave a huge lunge forward. By lunch time I was in bed. Fever set in and I spent the afternoon in a shivering pool of sweat.I fell into an exhausted sleep by 9pm.

I feel better today but I have to feel better because I pack for Stoke Mandeville Hospital and I need to be clear minded.