Fantastic day today at the IHUG (Ipswich Hospital User Group) celebration at Ipswich Hospital today where I was giving a presentation and then supporting their workshop afterwards. In my speech I talked about my work and achievements, how I…
On Friday 21st September 2018 I received a prestigious accolade: I was awarded an Honorary Degree of Master of the University from the Open University, for commitment to public services. What an incredible thing to receive, to be recognised in…
I am disabled. I am covered in tubes, bags and scars. I am perfectly imperfect, not what society defines as beautiful. I don’t feel beautiful. However, I am comfortable with myself and my body. I do not resent the way…
You see me at my worst. You see me stuck in a bed in hospital, in pain, struggling, fighting repeated bouts of sepsis, reliant on more IVs and pumps than I already am at home, covered in bags and tubes…
To my wonderful friends, family and supporters, I have a very, very exciting announcement to make: I am now Lucy Watts MBE I have been appointed Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the Queen’s New Year…
Merry Christmas Everyone!Thanks so much for your support throughout this amazing year. I can't quite believe all that has happened, despite the tragedies we have suffered as a family. It started with me writing the foreword to the Difficult Conversations booklet for Together…
To my wonderful followers, friends and family, I am writing to you in a desperate situation. I need a new wheelchair but the one I need has a cost of £22,412.39 and we cannot afford this nor will the NHS provide it. So…
We have been fundraising over the past few months for an off-roading wheelchair to allow me to walk Molly more easily and to allow me to go off the path as well as opening up more walks to us as…
I’ve been meaning to get my blog up and running for a while, I created it a few weeks ago and haven’t written a post yet. I apologise for that. I’ve struggled to write anything legible and remotely interesting due…