Trying to Find Acceptance

Date 9 July 2020
Author Ilana Estelle
"This was on my mind today. When I look at my life in the whole, I can’t believe that as I continue to write and talk about my experiences that this was my life. Then I reconcile that it happened that I wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing ...
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Confinements of Lockdown

Date 6 July 2020
Author Ilana Estelle
"I continue to write about Covid-19 on The CP Diary, because I'd cope less not talking about it. With lockdown finished, the UK Government has forced those who are high risk, out of their homes. With pubs already open and ...
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Too Many Years to Erase

Date 4 July 2020
Author Ilana Estelle
"Being a parent, I am still trying to get my head around the fact that my disability was ignored for so long. The fact that it was ignored, and I continued to live my life without knowing anything about my disability has taken its ...
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We Shape our own Future

Date 30 June 2020
Author Ilana Estelle
As a child, every thought and spoken word you’re given, shapes you and your future. In my own case, couple that with a disability I didn't know I had, and it's taken me decades to work out and to change my future. For us ...
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Just be Nice

Date 28 June 2020
Author Ilana Estelle
Be nice because you can. Be nice because you would want others to be nice to you and because being nice strengthens relationships and it's the right thing to do. There is no getting away from my mental and emotional struggles ...
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Covid-19, our Changed Lives

Date 22 June 2020
Author Ilana Estelle
Living in lockdown hasn't been easy, but it will have been a waste, if we are to learn nothing from our experiences on why we went into lockdown in the first place. It doesn't feel right for us to come out, and change ...
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Change brings Growth

Date 20 June 2020
Author Ilana Estelle
As a child, I didn't stop to question what I was being told. I took what was being told as fact and stored those facts as my own beliefs. But as the adult, it is important to be able to reassess what you have been told and reject what ...
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My Life after Covid

Date 18 June 2020
Author Ilana Estelle
Well it's not quite life after Covid, but with lockdown easing and shops in the UK open, fast forward and my attention turns to me getting back into my life, after lockdown. With lockdown being eased, we’re already seeing spikes ...
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Children don't Equate

Date 12 June 2020
Author Ilana Estelle
"As a child, I didn’t equate or work out that my disability was neglect brought about through abuse. I didn’t equate my mental and emotional struggles (not being able to learn) was because I had autism – and that my struggles ...
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Neurological Issues and Covid

Date 9 June 2020
Author Ilana Estelle
Through cerebral palsy I have neurological issues, so hearing that most hospitalised Covid-19 patients have neurological symptoms isn’t resting easy. COVID-19 is a very real issue for me. In March, Carlos Manuel Romero-Sanchez MD, of Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Albaceta in Spain, and co-authors in Neurology, reported that Neurologic manifestations…
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Beyond Angry

Date 6 June 2020
Author Ilana Estelle
I could have chosen to be ‘beyond angry’ about my experiences and how I got to this place with something I didn't know I was dealing with, but what would have been the point? Anger just eats away at you, it makes you bitter ...
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Cerebral Palsy and Covid-19

Date 4 June 2020
Author Ilana Estelle
I know that with an already compromised immune system, even if it wasn't too early for others to ease lockdown, in the midst of a virus, having to self-isolate is something I have no choice on, which means cerebral palsy and ...
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