Sally's World

Good morning!

Now, it is very important in life not to take yourself too seriously, it is essential to be able to laugh at yourself. Although whether that is supposed to be taken as literally as we did yesterday, I’m not sure.

After we finished our radio blog we felt we needed to lighten the mood, and despite the lack of space and not having any high heels (me not Trojan) we decided to practice some of our salsa moves…it was a lot of fun, so we videoed it and thought we’d show you how we’re doing. The pressure got to us a bit, we now fully understand the nerves the celebs suffer with on Strictly come dancing, the pressures huge…and not having an instructor shout out the moves and thirty other people doing them simultaneously made it harder than the class. But we laughed, the camera man cried…I think with laughter! and we thought we’d let you see.

As I say, normally we ask for feedback and your opinion, we take that back for this particular video blog…no, I’m kidding, please feel free to let us know what you think. It’s had quite a few views already, so we’ll be expecting that phone call from a big LA based dance agency any day now!!!

Enjoy

Trojan and Sally xxxxxxxx

Well, they let us home from the hospital today, I’m a little concerned that is was more to do with the fact that Deion was constantly demanding food and chatting the ears off the nurses than that he was actually alert enough from the anaesthetic to come home.

I was up late last night packing his bag…and don’t think I’m talking about pyjamas, reading books and slippers, I’m talking about chicken drumsticks, Doritos, chocolate chip cookies, Haribo and a Satsuma…the Satsuma was for me.

Sadly, I underestimated, and in the last four hours, he still needed two hospital meals, one of the nurses lunches and a constant supply of drinks…with chipped ice if you don’t mind, not the cubed kind!

I’m not sure he was totally ‘with it’ as we left the ward and he drove his chair down to the car park. After taking out a potted plant, a chair and a doctor, I realised, he might not be fit to drive after all.

Is driving a wheelchair under the influence the same thing as drink driving, I’m not sure. It may seem less dangerous, but if you’ve ever been run over by an electric wheelchair, you know it’s no joke!

But in all seriousness, Deion was a star, he hated the starving part, but he was great when they do the blood tests and put the drip in and stuff. He had a muscle biopsy, a lumbar puncture, and an arterial blood test. All went well, and apart from feeling a bit sore, he is fine. He’s gone to bed now and I expect he’ll be using his sore back as shamelessly as he can, and we’ll all be charging around catering to his every need all weekend.

I also had to explain to Jordan, Robyn and Dave that Deion was not halucinating, as they presumed on hearing about it. And we did actually see a storm trooper in the lift at the hospital. It was a little surreal, I got a fit of the giggles, and the stormtrooper looked at me as if to say 'grow up' which made it worse. But he didn't shoot me!!! so that was okay!

We’ll be getting the test results in a week or two, so fingers crossed for good news.

And I just want to thank everyone for your messages of support. Family and friends obviously texted, phone, e-mailed and sent their love. But we also had many good luck messages from people who only know us through the blogs. So thank you, we are touched and everyone’s messages of support were much appreciated.

I need to go and get some rest now, Deion’s going to have me on my toes tomorrow.

Take care

Sally and Deion (Demon Driver) xxx

We just wanted to let you know that as well as the UK, we have readers and viewers, from:

USA,
Spain,
Belgium,
Switzerland,
Gambia,
The Bahamas,
Ghana,
Belize,
St Lucia,
Italy,
France,
Australia,
Singapore,
Germany,
Saudi Arabia,
And Greneda

Thank you to our international readers and viewers, and please, please feel free to e-mail us and let us know how the issues we talk about affect you in other countries across the world.

World domination. I think so!

Sally and Trojan xxx

When Trojan opened the front door to me yesterday, I noticed that his skin looked suspiciously smooth. He insisted that he’d done nothing more than have a shave, yet it looked a little more like he’d had a facial to me…mmmm!

I felt a little insecure then, I had intended, as I do every week for the video blog, to brush my hair, slap on a bit of lipstick and make myself look half presentable. As usual, by the time I’d sorted out the kids, the cooking, washing and ironing of uniforms, answered e-mails and restored some sort of order to the house, I didn’t have time to even locate my hairbrush, let alone use it.

I can’t help feeling that it’s so much easier for men!

Well, Trojan is a few years younger than me; I guess I can’t resent his youthful complexion… I’m not bitter…honest!

Anyway, I digress,

We did the second radio blog, we spoke about what’s been going on this week, about Barack Obama being elected into the white house and what it means to us, what we feel it means to this country also. Of course, it wasn’t going to go completely smoothly, we knew that as I accidently introduced myself during the music intro.

And it wasn’t until we listened back an hour or so later that we realised we didn’t shut off the live feed and we can be heard chatting away about the blogs and various other things…thank goodness we weren’t saying anything derogatory about anyone…and we weren’t using bad language (which makes a change for us…...kidding!)

We also did our fourth video blog, a brief version of the radio blog if you like, this went well, we are getting quite good at these now, no nerves, it’s just like we’re sitting having a chat.

We did try something new, and that was a brief advert for the t-shirts, I looked a bit too serious…but I’ll expect QVC to be recruiting Trojan any time now. We had a couple of bloopers, and we left one in because it made us laugh so much and kind of depicts what we are all about, not perfection (if only) but fun and getting a message out there.

So please log on to the video and radio blogs, as usual all comments are greatly appreciated.

We’ll be back….If you want Trojans autograph, please send and SAE to……

Trojan and Sal xxx

Hi everyone, I just wanted to thank and acknowledge everyone who has listened to and given us positive feedback on the radio blog.

As with the video and written blogs, Trojan worked very hard at getting this off the ground. The visuals and all the technical stuff is down to Trojan, I just show up and chat for a few minutes, or write something down and hit a button, Trojan does the rest. As you can see here in this incriminating evidence...Trojan working hard, and me with a cup of tea in my hand!!! oops!

We did have a few minor technical issues with the show, (it was our first one after all) we got cut off a couple of times, but we were very proud of what we ended up with. So if you click on to listen, just persevere with it and I promise we do come back to you fairly soon.

You can tell we get more and more comfortable as we got into it and we managed to cover quite a lot of stuff, mainly how many things, like education, attitude and family life is affected by disability. I will admit, I committed my usual sin of jumping into the middle of some of Trojans comments or questions, and I have to give him credit for not giving me a swift kick to the shins…he could have got away with it on the radio too!

Our aim is for anyone who is interested in the issues to be able to listen while going about their daily lives, become regular listeners and to contribute their own views. We are very interested in hearing your comments and your point of view so please get in touch and let us know what you think.

Take care

Trojan and Sally xxx

We’ve been getting such a positive reaction from the video and written blogs, that Trojan has had another great idea…he’s on fire at the moment. He’s a one man marketing/advertising/promotions team!

So now we are adding radio blogs into the mix. This means we’ll be able to have more in-depth chats about the issues that the blogs are raising for all of you and hopefully we’ll be able to help more people and give more advice.

We got together yesterday and had a practice run, it was a lot of fun, although I don’t think it actually make much sense. I introduced the show, introduced Trojan and we proceeded to have a chat about everything from amateur dramatics to how Trojans ears pop when he’s on an airplane. That’s if you could make anything out amongst our laughter and the kids playing in the background.

As you know from the video blogs, Trojan is quite expressive with his hands, and the fact that he had his phone in his hand while he was talking only meant I had to practically leap around the room to talk into it. Of course afterwards, he told me it was on loudspeaker and would have picked my voice up anyway, but I’m not all that good at this stuff, so I didn’t know that.

Afterward we listened back to it and laughed even harder, I, apparently say ‘really, yes’ or ‘absolutely’ every ten seconds when someone else is talking…why has no-one ever pointed this out to me and told me how annoying it is? I also realised how fast I talk and how I get louder and louder the more animated I get.

Then we listened to a couple of other pre recorded shows from more experienced broadcasters, and Trojan got quite cross with me because I didn’t introduce him as ‘my fabulous co-host’ like the other broadcaster did. For this I apologise…you are totally fabulous Trojan.

So on Sunday we will be broadcasting our first live radio show at 5pm, you can go to the link on the blog page to listen in. And all joking aside, it is a very serious topic we’ve chosen to talk about a topic inspired by the e-mails we’ve been receiving in reaction to the blogs. It is about how disabled children are viewed by family, the education system, the health system, society and the government. So the title of this show will be “Disabled Children Precious Gift or Extra Burden.” we know its controversial, but we also know its important not to shy away from the issues just in case people find them uncomfortable.

We hope you join us and give us your views, it is important to get lots of people points of views on the issues, not just our own. So we’ll sign in and see where it takes us.

We will be recording another short video blog too, we’ve decided not to choose a subject, and to be spontaneous…oh goody!

See you Sunday

Sal & Trojan xxx