It’s turning out to be a reasonably sunny day, but everything did not go according to plan this morning. I got up on time, got dressed (minus shoes and socks, which I always struggle with) made my toilet and turned on my PC while I waited for my home care assistant to arrive at 9. 9 am came and went I didn’t worry at first because they are often a bit late. However, when it got to 20 past I started to worry. It was at that point when the university caretaker arrived: there was something wrong with the water supply to the flat and he had come to repair it. I let him in while I used my computer. At about 9.30 I used Word to tell the caretaker that I was worried about my home care, my Lightwriter was still on charge, as I can’t put it on myself.

After the caretaker had left I was getting really worried. I tried to email Dad and my social worker to see if they could do anything but for some reason the email system was down. At this point I decided to put my own shoes and socks on – for me this is a very slow process, but I can do it eventually. I then decided to go to the canteen to see if I could get anyone to help but as I didn’t want to risk dropping it I couldn’t bring my Lightwriter. Sufficed to say I couldn’t get anyone to understand me in the canteen, so I went back to my room to room to wait for Esther. At this point I was getting very worried and hungry. I turned my computer back on and it had just finished warming up when the home care worker arrived. The caretaker had gone to reception and had made some enquiries. It was now about 10.15 so I went for a quick breakfast of two bananas in order to get back before Esther arrived. Fortunately due to the chaotic public transport Esther was also late today. Either way I was only 5 minutes late for lessons. All’s well that ends well.