NDIS...update from the rally yesterday!

Ok, so I was too bloody sore to go to the rally myself, in Brisbane. But I got this email update from the organising committee;

Dear Supporter,

What an amazing day!

15,000 Australians around the country have sent a message, loud

and clear. It's time to Make the NDIS Real.

Today Canberra responded. Prime Minister Julia Gillard addressed

the Sydney rally and announced the National Disability Insurance

Scheme would be launched in four sites across the country next

year, supporting more than 10,000 Australians with a disability

at launch.

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott joined passionate campaign

supporters in Perth and told the rally "everyone should get a

fair go and that's what the National Disability Insurance Scheme

is about".

We have had some great news today – but we can't stop yet. We can

't stop until the NDIS is introduced for everyone, for good.

And here's a clip of Tim McCallum - singing 'You're The Voice' at the Sydney Rally-(and some nice candid moments, shots of supporters with the PM, too!

It is what it is...so suck it up and move ahead !

I've had something of a realisation - in the last week...A change of heart, but in a good way!
It started, a couple of days before departure. I was lying in bed - I'd just woken up thinking I was stressing about getting ready for making a return to my Scouts. Another year had rolled by since the last canoeing-expedition. Back then, I was a lot more 'able' (than I am now), I was worrying about all the things that might go wrong-(with me) if I went on this trip, in so many ways I could be a 'ball & chain', or that my pain would get so bad, or I'd have a fall and be alone and not be able to get help!
Barrier, after barrier..I would be a failure!...I must have layed there for a while.

Then it was like a great big hand just 'slapped-me-in-the-face', a voice inside me said..'my, my, what about that. It is what it is...so, suck-it-up and move ahead !!!!!!!!!!!
So I did something about it. I realised that everyone I love in this world, love me for being me, my family and friends know what I've been through. Physically, I don't do what I used to do-(before TM) - but I hated myself for it, not thinking that my attitude had changed. It was my attitude to 'it'. My TM is with me, and the car-accident-(in 2011) has heightened my TM-symptoms. So I'm moving ahead.