Celebrating our community
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 4:36 pm
http://ubpn.org/messageboard/thread ... 1&tstart=0 not sure how many of you read the general message board so here's a link to a thread there, Nancy is looking for photographs of people achieving milestones in their bpi journey for the next edition of Outreach. Would be nice to see some tbpi in there too.
Dunno about you guys, there isn't a single photo of me on any of the milestones I remember. Getting the lid off a jar of jam, fastening buttons, doing up my shoelaces, uncorking wine, changing my newborn's nappy, all those things that one by one I became able to do through just pure bloody mindedness, and because there was noone else around to do it. For an adult tbpi the milestones are about survival as an individual, and I don't think we celebrate them at the time, we just move on to the next one. Hope some of you had the foresight to record some of the journey.
Cheers all
Jen NZ
Dunno about you guys, there isn't a single photo of me on any of the milestones I remember. Getting the lid off a jar of jam, fastening buttons, doing up my shoelaces, uncorking wine, changing my newborn's nappy, all those things that one by one I became able to do through just pure bloody mindedness, and because there was noone else around to do it. For an adult tbpi the milestones are about survival as an individual, and I don't think we celebrate them at the time, we just move on to the next one. Hope some of you had the foresight to record some of the journey.
Cheers all
Jen NZ