Category: Disability
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Sharing My Story
Estimated reading time: < 1 minute. It’s been a busy, but rewarding, week at work and home. In the last 24 hours The Lego Group have published two personal videos documenting my sight loss disability and love for building with Braille bricks.
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Five Years of Sight Loss
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes. Over the last five years I have written personal blog posts detailing my traumatic sight loss journey. To help others better understand the significant changes in my vision I also created a series of interactive simulations (H5P files).
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Maid of Fabuland
Estimated reading time: 14 minutes. Lego kindly invited me to build a Fabuland ship for the prestigious Lego House in Denmark. Going blind in one eye has been the hardest year and this creative challenge absolutely helped me move forward. Read about the ‘Maid of Fabuland’ paddle steamer and one of the happiest days ever.
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Women in STEM Illustrations
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes. To celebrate Ada Lovelace Day 2024, I created two new colouring-in illustrations of notable Women in STEM – author and codebreaker Irene Jessie Brown, and geologist Charlotte Murchison. I also discuss AI enhancement tools and vision loss challenges associated with my design process.
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FAB-AT-AT
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes. Happy FAB-AT-AT Instructions Day! PDF building instructions for my FAB-AT-AT are finally available to buy from Rebrickable.
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Typology of Lego Smartphones
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes. To date, Lego has released 25 different smartphone models (1×2 printed tiles). Let’s take a wee journey through the last 12 years of Minifigure mobiles.
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Braille Bricks
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes. Whilst experiencing further sight loss last year, I went ahead and bought set 40656 ‘LEGO Playing with Braille’. My latest hangar MOC incorporates eight different Braille bricks, spelling out the word Fabuland.
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Life Got Dark
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes. Life got considerably darker last month. Unfortunately, after 12 months of fighting I have lost the sight in my left eye.
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Old Blue Eye
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes. DYK eye trauma can cause your iris colour to change? In an eventful summer health-wise, one of my blue eyes is now green.
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A Patient’s Guide to Eye Surgery
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes. Practical, honest and positive advice for attending a surgical hospital appointment. Written by a sight loss patient with type-1 diabetes (T1D).
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Face Down, But Looking Up
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes. It’s been a challenging winter health-wise, with multiple eye surgeries and extremely poor vision. But family, friends and NHS professionals have helped me find enough fortitude to reach the other side.
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Happy St Andrew’s Day!
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes. In just six weeks my ‘Hello, Toilet Dolly!’ fundraiser has reached its goal of £1,000 for the sight loss charity Sight Scotland!