Deaf Carer

 I suppose none of us ever expected to be living through a pandemic, surely with today's science and medicine that's a thing of the past?  Hmm no there will always be new illness, illnesses for which there are no treatment and diseases that spread so quickly it's difficult to stop them.  No matter what medical and science advances are made history shows us that there will always be a modern for the times illness that can cause an epidemic or pandemic.  What matters is whether or not we all pull together and do the right thing to keep ourselves, our loved ones and show kindness, consideration and support to strangers in order to keep them safe too.  We are currently seven months into the Covid-19 pandemic and it's not really been any of the things above, there's a lot of selfish "I can do what I want, nobody has the right to tell me what to do and as long as I'm okay everyone else can die" attitude.  If I'm honest it's that attitude that has hor...

 Oh all of a sudden I'm really rather nervous.  I'm Sall.  I've been a carer for as long as I can remember in one way or another including as a child.  I've been deaf since birth and today I suddenly felt the need to write a blog about how I find life as a Deaf Carer.  I've previously discussed both issues on my craft blog when I've been frustrated and used craft to aid me through but now I feel the need to really write about it, be totally honest about everything from emotions to facts.  I'm going to start with an introduction about me and my interests, a little about my Caree who will take various name forms from Nan to Caree depending on if I'm writing rationally or emotionally and of course my deafness.   A small disclaimer first, I'm using the term deaf because I found people didn't understand hard of hearing, hearing impaired and so I went for deaf, I shall continue to use that but appreciate it is offensive to a profoundly deaf person beca...