Hi everyone! I hope you are all well! I am doing very well at the moment! I thought that I would write a blog today, to talk about what’s going on in the world at this moment and things that have happened whilst we’ve all been staying at home.

So let’s start off with the Coronavirus, how’s everyone been doing in Lockdown? I am doing quite well, even though it’s quite a difficult time for all of us at the moment. I haven’t been able to go to school which is SO sad! (Yep, I’m one of the people who actually like school lol.) I love it in school! It’s where you get to learn about new things that might help you in the future! And to not be able to go to school is really boring. I miss doing all my normal, everyday lessons and seeing my friends a break and dinner time. Since I haven’t been able to go to school, I’ve been doing online-schoolwork. To be honest, it’s quite boring doing it on a computer online instead of hearing your teachers actually telling you! It’s just not the same! Apparently school is opening in September, thank goodness! I can’t wait to see all my teachers again and to get things back to the way it were! In September, I will be in Year 10, (wow, just writing that sounds weird lol…) Year 10 is one of those years were you start “growing up” and focusing on the future a lot more. It’s also all about the GCSE’S, focusing on what you’ve picked. I’ve picked Drama, that was my first option at the start actually! As most of you may know, I LOVE Drama, and I want to be an actress when I grow up! Or probably a presenter! Something along those lines of acting! So of course, Drama would be my first choice! I have also chosen French, a lot of people don’t like French in my school, and literally NO ONE likes it in my French class! I don’t ever understand why! It is so fun! It’s so cool being able to learn a new language and that language just sticks to your head so you won’t ever forget! I have also chosen English, I love English, I love writing stories, I always have. In primary school, I was always told that I had a big imagination and I was creative. Not creative in an Art way, (Art is one of the lessons I am not good at, I can’t draw for the life of me lol!) creative in an English way, I would always let my imagination run away with me and I would write on and on and on, page after page after page! (I actually still do that to this day lol) Apologies to my English teachers throughout the years who would have to read all that work! It probably took you all day to read because there was so much of it lol! But it’s all worth it in the end! Sometimes, when I write, I don’t even notice how much I am really writing! I become SO focused I just block everything and everyone else out! To my English teacher if you read this, thanks for marking and reading all of my work that I have done! Even though it was A LOT lol. I read a lot of books too, especially since Lockdown. Again, most people in my school don’t like reading, why, why, why! Reading is AMAZING! I love being able to read a book on the sofa or my bed and let my imagination run away with me, AGAIN! Reading makes me feel like I’m really in the story! If you came to my house and saw how many books I have, you would be shocked! I can’t even fit my books on my bookshelf anymore because I’ve got so MANY! I just read this over, and I have realized that I am such a geek lol. But I am absolutely fine with that because geeks are one of the smartest people! (Maths not included because I am absolutely AWFUL at Maths!) When I am older, even though I want to be an actress/presenter, I want to be a writer too! (Why do I want to be so busy lol) I want to soon write a book about my life and have it published, and have people read it and love it! What would you all think of that? I am going to have all my dreams come true one day, you just mark my words!

So, let’s now talk about my surgery. If you didn’t know, I had surgery on the 19th of May this year to take the metal rod out of my left leg, (I know what you are all thinking, “FINALLY!” Don’t worry, I am too! I am such a magician lol, could that be my dream job? Actually, now that I’m thinking of it, maybe being a magician isn’t such a good idea…) After my surgery being cancelled 3 times, we are all finally thankful that it happened this time! Me and my mum woke up quite early, because we had to go all the way to Leeds Children’s Hospital (LCH) to have my surgery done. As we were driving to LCH, I was getting quite nervous, but I kept telling myself to ‘breathe in, and out’. Music helped me too! Good thing I took my headphones! So, we arrived at LCH and we had to get signed in, all that grown-up stuff lol. We then took the lift to the ward that I was going to stay in. It was quite different than my previous visits, all of the doctors and nurses were wearing masks, and we had to put sanitizer on our hands before we went into the ward and we had to wear masks of our own! I hated that part, I think my mum did too because she was secretly trying to get some air from outside of the window! Sorry to call you out mum lol! When we saw the nurses and doctors we asked, “How do you do it?” Because they have to wear the face masks all day! Then we had to wait, and wait, and wait for HOURS! Then it was lunchtime and my mum ordered HERSELF some lunch and it looked delicious! I couldn’t eat because I was having surgery soon so I was really jealous about that lol. My mum kept on saying “Mmmmm… so delicious” So thanks for that mum! So kind! Lol. So anyways, we waited more and more and more, at this point I was really bored and tired so I wanted to go to sleep, but for some reason I couldn’t! I guess it was because I had a lot on my mind that day. The Hospital does have a TV, so I kind of just entertained myself by watching CBBC lol. (Oh yes, CBBC is also one of those television channels that I’ve always wanted to be on. Maybe someday…) A while later, they finally came to me and asked me all sorts of questions and them put the good friend the “magic cream” on again. I hated that part! It’s just so cold and it looks disgusting with the plaster on! (Just me thinking about it makes me feel sick!) My mum thought I was weird because “It’s just magic cream!” The nurse probably thought I was weird too. In fact, the whole Hospital probably thought I was weird at that point! Please tell me I am not the only one who thinks the “magic cream” is disgusting! To anyone who has had surgery in the past, please let me know if you think if the “magic cream” is gross too! The “magic cream” is an experience that I WON’T miss! So, after they had finally finished, we waited for some more. Then, they finally said I could come down to have my surgery! But it wasn’t until I was on the surgery bed that I said in my head, “Okay, this is actually happening, it’s okay, you’ve done this many times before…” I just tried to calm myself down because apparently my heart was beating rapidly! Whenever someone asks “What’s surgery like?” I always say, “It isn’t something that you could ever get used to because it’s so scary, I could have it over and over again and I would never ever get used to it.” Have you ever heard the term “Butterflies in your chest”? Well, whenever I have surgery, those butterflies in my chest are fluttering everywhere! So anyways, they had to put a needle in my arm, and it really stung! Like, really REALLY stung! My breathing became quick and I was getting really scared now! For some reason though, even though they put the anesthetic in me, I kept waking up! I was just on the Hospital Ipad and talking to my mum and the nurses to distract myself, so then I was like, “And then this happened..” And then I’d fall asleep, and then I’d wake up, carrying on with my conversation, and then fall asleep again! Then when I woke up, and then the doctors put a mask on me, to help me fall asleep and then it finally worked! It literally felt like 10 mins but it was actually 3 hours! That reminds me, as we were walking to the hospital entrance, I asked my mum, “How long will the surgery be for?” And she said 20 mins! So when I woke up, I was really groggy but I asked her, “Has it been 20 minutes already?” And then she said, “No, they actually did the surgery for 3 hours.” Thanks for that mum! Actually, no, I don’t mean that because if she actually told me the surgery was for 3 hours, then I would be a lot for nervous! So thank you for lying so I wouldn’t get nervous mum So, also when I woke up, I couldn’t think straight and it all felt like a dream, but then I felt a sharp stab of pain on my left leg and I started crying! Now about me, I don’t really cry in front of people, I am quite confident and I don’t really like showing my weak side to people, so for me to cry is shocking! All I wanted to do is to fall back asleep but when we went back to the ward I couldn’t! I was really hungry at that point and on the menu for dinner is was a Chicken Tikka Masala, one of my favourites! If any of you readers from outside of the UK come to England, trust me, you’ll have to try it! Anyway, enough of my favourite foods lol. I had to have a cheese sandwiches with chips instead, but I really didn’t mind at that point because I was so hungry lol, I hadn’t eaten all day! The cheese sandwiches were cut into squares and they were actually quite good because it tastes like the cheese that my mum buy at the shops lol. The chips tasted quite weird, they were cold and had no flavour, and no sauce! Whenever my mum makes dinner and we have chips with it, we always have sauce and it’s really good For dessert, I had a chocolate Ice cream in those little pots we have at my school, and it was really nice, and cold too which helped with my throat a lot because in my surgery, they had to put a tube down my throat to help me breathe. I know… doesn’t sound the best! So my throat tasted weird and it was really dry so the Ice cream really helped. Thanks Ice Cream! Ice Cream solves anything and everything! Next time you have a problem, grab some Ice Cream and your day will be complete lol! After dinner, I went on my phone on a little bit on Instagram, and I loved seeing you all wishing me to get better! That definitely made me smile so thank you for that! After I went on my Phone, I went to bed, my mum stayed with me on a hospital bed next to me. But, the bad thing is, on the next bed, there was a lady who didn’t really speak that much English, with her little boy, the little boy was probably around 2 to 3 years old and he was on his Ipad, he was playing a game on his Ipad but the sound was ALL THE WAY UP. I get it, he’s a toddler, hes happy, but it was SO annoying! It was literally around 11pm at night and this didn’t stop until 2AM! And my mum had enough because she was trying to go to sleep too, (Well, when I say going to sleep, she was eating a packet of Oreos and watching ‘The Real Housewives of Cheshire’ or something like that. (I had an Oreo too which, to a child, is a present lol!) That was probably her version of going to bed lol. To all you mums out there, you probably think this is a fantastic idea, relate to this, or know where she’s coming from lol.) When my mum told that lady, the lady finally turned it down but then something happened… the little boy was screaming his head off! This was probably worse than having the Ipad turned up all the way! All I could hear the lady saying to her son was, “Be nice, be nice!” and I literally gave up on ever sleeping again lol. Finally, after a few more minutes of screaming and crying, he FINALLY stopped! Hooray! I was finally going to be able to sleep! And I did! Until the nurses woke me up for checking my blood pressure lol. But I managed to go to sleep straight after that, and so did my mum. (I hope those Oreos were nice mum! Lol!) When I woke up, I woke up quite early, at around 6:00 in the morning, and I couldn’t get back to sleep so I just watched some TV. Then my mum woke up and at around 9:00, it was breakfast, I chose Weetabix, which is one of my all time favourite things to eat for breakfast! I always had them for breakfast in Hospital, ever since I was 7 years old! So I had my breakfast whilst my mum went to get a tea from downstairs. The nurses ALWAYS put too much milk in my Weetabix so I had to sip the milk with a spoon a little bit and then eat it lol. After breakfast, I practiced doing some walking with a walking frame. It felt so weird to sit up when I first stood up, I was alright, it was when I tried doing my first step it REALLY hurt! I started crying AGAIN because it hurt so much! But then, I persuaded myself to take another step… and I did! Then it started becoming quite easier using the walking frame, but when I tried using my sticks I literally couldn’t do it at all! I was really proud of myself that I could walk with the standing frame, and the nurses, doctors and my mum were proud too! Then we went to the Hospital steps and they said that they were going to try and get me up a couple of steps so that I would know how to get upstairs at home. I had to use my hands to push myself up onto the next step at home and at Hospital, but I was really happy that I could do it! Then, I walked with the standing frame back to my bed before they discharged me home! Me and my mum were so happy because we didn’t know how long I would be in hospital for, so we were happy we were only in there for the night! They were originally going to send me back home the DAY of my operation, after I’d had it, but me, my mum, and even the doctors thought that it would be best for me to stay the night to rest my legs. So, after a few bits of paperwork, they wheeled me out of the Hospital in a wheelchair and we went home in the car. My family were so happy that we were going home too! It was really nice that day so to celebrate we had a barbecue and it was so fun and it all tasted delicious! 4 weeks later, I could finally walk! I was so happy about that! I could even go up the stairs properly a little while after that! To get upstairs before all that though, I had to use the method the doctors told me and it took me FOREVER to get up to my bedroom, and downstairs to the living room! I am so happy that I am back to my old self again and I would say that the surgery was definitely worth it! To the NHS Doctors and Nurses, thank you, thank you, thank you! You all have been in my life ever since I was born and you have helped me to walk and be who I am today! So, I am going to give you a clap on the computer! *clap clap!* See? Lol.

Phew! That was a big paragraph lol! Let’s talk about something else since that was such a big paragraph ha ha! So since we’ve been in Lockdown, I have actually done a photo shoot in Media City, and I got to take pictures of me in the Blue Peter Garden! I have watched Blue Peter on CBBC (hello again!) for a while now, and my mum watched Blue Peter when she was younger all those years ago! (well shes 35 so not that long ago lol) I have seen the Blue Peter Garden on TV so to take pictures in the ACTUAL Garden was amazing! I will put some pictures down below! I loved how they turned out! If your an adult, did you watch Blue Peter all those years ago too? Or if your a child like me, do watch it now like I do?

So, let’s now talk about my Youtube Channel, what sort of content would you like to see and enjoy? I can do whatever you want! If you want to watch my Youtube video on my surgery, I will put in my Youtube Channel down below at the end of this blog where I put all my other social medias! I am promising myself to post more so it would be fun for you to watch, but fun for me to film too!

So lastly, I want to talk about what my plans are after this is all over and the Coronavirus has gone, I am going to see ALL my family members and give them all a hug, because I have missed them SO much! Then I am going to go to my best friends house and give her the biggest hug in history because we haven’t seen each other in AGES and we literally do everything together! (You know who you are! Love ya girl!) I also can’t wait to continue on with my catwalks! I have missed them so much! I just can’t wait for everything to go back to the way it should be. And, I know times are tough right now, but just think, it will all be over soon! We will all be able to get back to our daily lives soon enough! I promise!

So that’s all for this blog today! If you have read this all your amazing! (Especially when I talk about my surgery lol.) If you didn’t read this all, your still amazing! I know it was a long one so it really doesn’t matter in the end!

I love you all so so much! Thank you so much for reading! If you have any questions, you can ask me them here below, or on my social medias and I will answer them! Remember to always be yourself!
Bye!

Katie xoxo

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Hello everyone! I hope everybody is doing well! Today’s blog is going to be all about how 2020 has been so far for me and also all about school and this whole Coronavirus going around and how one thing that I was supposed to do got cancelled because of it! So, let’s begin…

So, let’s start off with my catwalks. I have recently done a catwalk in London and it. was. AMAZING! I had gotten to wear this STUNNING yellow and blue dress with a little colour-matched hat to match it with! If you haven’t seen it yet, it will be on my Instagram which I will link in at the end of this blog! Or, if you haven’t gotten social media, I will put some pictures down below! It was absolutely magical! People even said that I looked like Pocahontas from Disney! And, the place where I was walking down on, there was a ACTUAL RUNWAY. So it made me feel even more like a cat walker! I honestly can’t thank the person who I was cat walking for, Dis_is_me for giving me this amazing opportunity! I loved every single second of it!

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I have also done a lot more fantastic things! Let’s start off when I was in TIMES SQUARE. To be on Times Square, I had to go to this Museum in Manchester and I had to do a photo shoot in one of the rooms with some of the girls who I had met in previous cat walks. I wore this really cute, pink flowery dress with matching pink shoes,I also had my makeup done too!It was really great and it was so nice and lovely of them to give me this amazing achievement and opportunity!

Another opportunity I had done was to go on BBC RADIO MANCHESTER! It was so so so AMAZING!!! My mum and I always listen to BBC Radio Manchester in the mornings for when she drives me to school so for ME, a 14 Year Old schoolgirl in Denton, to go on BBC Radio Manchester was one of the most epic things I have done! To be honest, I was quite nervous because I didn’t want to make a fool of myself by stammering and stuttering or by saying the wrong thing! My mum was quite nervous too! Sorry to put you in the spotlight mum but you WERE! You were even more nervous than me and you didn’t want the Radio Presenter to bring you up! But you did absolutely fine! If you missed me on BBC Radio Manchester, it will be on their website! Oh! And, I met someone from CBBC’s Newsround, and she wants me and my mum on it because they sometimes talk to people with disabilities about their daily lives! The only problem is… MUM. I’m guessing she just doesn’t want to be on TV when loads of people will be watching! Mum, you’ve been on the News before! This is just like the news but a kids version! I watch Newsround at school every week and imagine my teacher, just scrolling through Newsround, somehow clicking on the episode I’m on, and mine and my mum’s face comes up on screen! Omg… what would people say? “Oh! Katie! I saw you on Newsround in my form room today!” lol. I can never thank the BBC enough on how amazing and brilliant it was! Words can’t decide on how terrific it was! Thank You!

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Another great opportunity was when I did a photo shoot in the woods! A photographer called Gemma took my photos and they were absolutely magical! I wore this really nice light blue dress which really matched the whole scene and I looked like I lived in the forest! I will put some photos down below! She was so kind and she is so good at editing! If your reading this Gemma, you are absolutely incredible with pictures! Thank you so much for the photo shoot! Your probably one of the best photographers I know to be honest!

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So let’s talk about school. School has been going quite well for me! I’m doing great in all of my classes…well… except for Maths… Maths is such a weakness of mine! My mum has suggested for me to start practicing my times tables because… well it’s a bit embarrassing but I don’t really know much of my times tables… I always have to use my fingers whenever I have to answer a question about them! My little brother Lincoln (yep… the one who I always argue with and who I find quite annoying… sorry Lincoln!) he’s NINE and he knows ALL of his times tables by heart! And I’m 14 and I hardly know my sevens! Yay! Lincoln and my mum have been trying to help me though which is nice of them. (oh, especially Lincoln, believe me when I told him, I thought he would just brag it in my face that he knows all of HIS times tables!) Hopefully I will get better and I won’t have to use my fingers ALL MY LIFE. Is anybody else like this actually? I would feel so much better to know that I’m not the only one who is a teenager or older in this world who still uses their fingers to count! I’d love to know! I don’t know if it’s just my memory or if it’s just because I’m terrible at maths!

Also I got gifted these amazing new walking sticks OMG they are clear with bubbles and they light up!!! Yep they light up thank you so much to NEO WALKS for my gorgeous sticks I just love them

A lesson that I AM good at is… you’ve guessed it! Drama! As all of you readers who have read my blogs for a long time already know, you know how much I love Drama and how I want to be an actress when I grow up! I just love acting and preforming and pretending to be someone who isn’t actually me! It just makes it feel so real! Like I’m actually in the film! When I’m older, the biggest acting job for me would to either be on Broadway or to be in a movie! You never know! (Seriously though… being on Broadway or a movie would be awesome! My name under flashing lights… preforming under a big white spotlight and- oh! Ahem… sorry! I was getting a bit carried away! Daydreaming about Broadway…. um… right! Let’s get back on to the uh… blog shall we? Please? Before you’ll be here all day whilst I tattle about acting! Trust me, you’ll have your lives saved if I stop now!) My Drama teachers have always told me that I’m really good at acting and preforming on stage and that I should take acting a try! Here’s a piece of advice from your good old pal lol! If you like doing something, like how much I like Drama, why don’t you take that into a career and you never know! It could become something big! If you ever doubt yourself, you never know what the future holds! One lesson I wish I was good at other then Maths, is Food Tech! I am literally not a good cook no matter how much I like it! I am no Jamie Oliver or Gordon Ramsay believe me! (I can’t even make a simple cupcake… I mean, who can’t make something as simple as a cupcake? This girl right here! But, that doesn’t stop me from trying! (Mum, if your reading this… please please please let me do some cooking with you! Or I could make you something for Mother’s Day as a gift? Pretty please with a cupcake on top? See what I did there? At least I can make some good *cough cough* terrible jokes! Ha… (sorry shouldn’t cough at the moment…) I can just imagine what she will be thinking if she reads this. “Letting Katie control my whole kitchen? Oh the horror of it all! Oh God no!” Ha ha! Love you mum!)

Let’s switch off school for a while and do a different topic… let’s talk about this whole Coronavirus going on. In my opinion, I. Hate. The. Coronavirus. Nothing else can be said! I’m getting so tired of hearing about it getting worse and worse every single day! The Coronavirus even made me have to self-isolate for two whole weeks! (Thanks I have a good reason for it though! Because of my Cerebral Palsy, I have a very weak immune system which means I can catch things pretty easily. (Such as colds, coughs etc.) It just means that I am more vulnerable to get it which annoys and worries me quite a bit. My mum has tried to reassure me about it all but every time I hear all about the deaths in England, my heart just plummets to the ground! I know, all those people were like older and all that but you should still be very careful when you when you go out and only go out when you need too! I was even supposed to do a run in Wimslow but that had gotten postponed because of the Coronavirus which is so annoying! Why does the Coronavirus have to do this to people? I was so excited and ready for it! I had my hair done and I had gotten some really nice running clothes, and my mum did too so she could match! They were even FREE. Which is so so nice of them! I love them! Until a later date! Can’t wait! Oh, also remember to was your hands! My mum has taken hand washing to an extreme level. (Seriously, she bought about 4 bottles of hand soap and like 5 bottles of hand – sanitizer) So, since I’m off school now (I just wanted to remind the Coronavirus again… THANKS A LOT.) and my school is shut, all of my teachers have sent me online work to do. AND my mum has made a new timetable for us all saying that it’s her “Holmes- school-school.” Lovely lol. Count me in! Oh, I’ve now heard thats she’s gonna start baking. (You’ll be so much better than me lol you already KNOW how to cook! But… if you DO start baking, I’ll be here waiting!)

I was also meant to doing a 2k charity run for Supportability an amazing charity that helps people with disabilites I raised over £200 but because of this virus its been cancelled till October which really is a good thing because I can raise a little bit more and do more training…. I would also like to thank you The Running Bear in Alderly Edge who gave me this stunning running gear!!!! gutted I couldn’t wear it BUT I will in October xx

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So, that will be it for this blog today! Thank you all for reading and make sure you all stay safe out there! Remember you can always ask me questions on this blog or on any of my Social Media and I’ll be sure to answer them all! I love each and everyone of you fantastic supporters! Remember to always be yourself! Bye!

Katie xoxo

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Hi everyone! I hope you all have had an amazing Christmas and New Year! Wow… I can’t believe that 2019 has gone sooo quick! I bet 2020 will be amazing for you all!

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So lets start off with Christmas, my favorite time of the year! My Christmas was really good! I had a really nice time with my family, and I got presents like shoes, clothes, bath bombs and nail vanish which of course, I absolutely love! lots of really good girly stuff too…..We also had a Christmas dinner which was DELICIOUS, and we played a bunch of games! We saw so many people this year my mum’s friend’s from Australia came over they have been friends since she was 11 so that was fun, How was your Christmas? I would love to know what you’ve got and what you did!

So, after Christmas of course came New Year. I cannot believe what a year it’s been! Is it just me or has 2019 gone super quick? It honestly doesn’t feel like 2020 at all! (Probably because it’s only been 2020 for five days but still!) On New Years Eve I went to my friend’s house (who is also my neighbor) for tea and then they came over at ours to celebrate New Years Eve! I absolutely loved it! What did you do for New Year? I’d love to know!

Talking about New Year, my operation was a whole year ago now and that is crazy!(And yes, we do keep track when the anniversaries of my surgery’s are lol.) I had Femoral Osteotomy it was my second time having this surgery done, for me it was an awful time I think because I am older I know what is coming, for people who do not know about this surgery they had to break my legs at my thigh bone and twist it round and set it in place with a metal rod, my feet kept twisting in from my hips so it has worked not fully but it’s better than it was, I remember crying a lot after surgery I had never felt pain like it even after my SDR, this one was on another level. I couldn’t walk after my surgery so I had to learn how to walk all over again! Most people learn to walk when they are babies and they only have to learn how to walk once and then they’ll never have to learn how to walk again! I have to learn how to walk every single time I have surgery lol. (5 times now) It takes time, practice and A LOT of physio, but I always manage to learn how to walk in the end! If you ever have surgery and have to learn how to walk again like me, just think… it’s worth it! It really is! If you’ve been following me on social media, you should know that I was supposed to have surgery I was meant to have my metal rods removed because it causes me so so much pain, in the cold the metal gets so cold it really hurts, I was mean to have it in November but it got cancelled! Why? There weren’t enough beds! And then I was supposed to have surgery in December but of course it was cancelled AGAIN. The reason this time was because my temperature was 38. 38! I was too nervous! I wasn’t allowed to have water which is understandable I guess because they probably wouldn’t want me to be sick and ill! I was SO upset when we got told! My new date from what we have got told is January. We don’t know when exactly the date will be, but as soon as we find out I’ll definitely let you all know! Lets just hope it doesn’t get cancelled this time! Actually, I would love some tips from you! If you’ve ever had a surgery you know it’s almost impossible to keep your cool! We don’t really know why but it just feels like there is a hole in our stomachs! How do you keep your cool when your about to have a surgery? Please let me know!

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So, lets talk about my Instagram. If you haven’t followed me yet it will be down below! On New Years Day I had reached 2,000 followers! I was SO shocked! I just couldn’t believe that my blog had made it this far and that 2,000 of you are reading and are interested in me!!! you all relate to every single good and bad thing I have mentioned! You’ve all been so supportive it’s unbelievable! This month will be me having my blog and social media for over a year I just can’t believe you all have been with me for an entire year! That’s why I am so so grateful towards every single one of you because without you, I wouldn’t be where I am today and none of the amazing opportunities would have happened! I hope to write my blogs for more years to come so you can laugh (because I’m just the funniest haha just kidding) cry and relate to everything! I have proven to all my bullies that just because I’m disabled, it doesn’t mean I can’t stand up for myself and that I can’t fight back! (don’t worry, I don’t actually FIGHT back lol!) If you have any problems with bullying and other things I can definitely relate to, I will always be there for each and every one of you!

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So, one thing is new since my last blog is iv become a model!!!! well sort off I have walked in 2 fashion shows now….Leicester and one in London, I actually got to walk down a catwalk how amazing is that, it was the most unbelievable experience everyone was clapping for me and cheering I looked at all the other models walking and they looked so beautiful, I walked down with my walking sticks so I looked completely different from them, I did get a lot of stares but I kind of think that’s a good thing, I’m not sure the fashion world are used to seeing a girl walk down the catwalk with walking sticks….. It honestly made me feel so amazing and I am so grateful to each of the people who have given me the opportunities because every single opportunity I have, it makes me feel like I have proven to people, just because I’m disabled, I can still do things and experiences that “normal” people can do! When people always ask me: “Are you sure you can do this Katie?” I always answer with: “Yes of course I can!” Because I know that if I said that I couldn’t do it, I know that I wouldn’t get the opportunity again! And when I do accomplish something I never thought I would do in my life, I just feel so proud of myself I think: “Wow! I did it! I actually did it!” I know the people who ask mean well and they don’t want me to get hurt but every time someone asks if I can do it, it’s always going to be yes and it makes me more eager and independent to do it every time! I have set up a youtube channel which I will focus on more this year but for now I have updated my videos of me on the catwalk!!! here is the link https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwn-imafvpg-HS4nwAdySGg?view_as=subscriber

Another good thing…. I have teamed up with the most amazing charity called Supportability its a local charity to in Stockport they help people with different disabilities including Cerebral Palsy, every time I write a blog they are going to post it on there website!!! here is the link https://www.supportability.org.uk/introducing-katie-holmess-blog/

So since it’s now 2020, your probably wondering whats happening next! I have got an interview with BBC Radio 1 on January 14th which I am so excited about! I will definitely mention all my modelling and catwalks! I’ll also let you know when to tune in! And hopefully I’ll do some more modelling and catwalks in the future! Also going to really focus on school I have 6 months left of year 9…..

I hope you all have enjoyed reading my blog, if you have any questions or answers to the questions I have asked, ask me below! I’d love to hear them! You can also ask me on my social media! I hope you like some of my best photos of 2019….

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I hope you all have a fantastic day, I love you all lots! Remember to be yourself!

Love Katie xoxo

Hi everyone! I hope everyone is doing well! Today’s blog is going to be about me traveling and my Cerebral Palsy and my experiences! And let me tell you, they ARE fun but pretty difficult at the same time!

So, I’m doing pretty well at the moment! Some ups and some downs that I’ll share with you! So, first of all, lets talk about travel. I love traveling! My earliest memory with travel was going to Spain with my family and our neighbors. It was so much fun! It was really hot there and we stayed in a really nice villa and there was a swimming pool we all went in almost everyday! I went in this really pretty (but also girly which is probably perfect for me lol) bedroom which I shared with my sister! My neighbors have a really nice girl called Ebony who I am very close to. She had to share a room with my brother Lincoln. It was really sunny in Spain and the villa looked so beautiful! I remember how we always used to jump in a lot which I absolutely loved doing! I loved going away with my Neighbours because they were totally fine with me I know it sounds silly but if you don’t no me you would think I was hard work, they sort of accepted my disability and helped nothing was ever too much for them, We went to a water park it was so cool we had so much fun, this holiday was the first proper holiday where I could walk with my K-walker so I could get around by myself.

But it wasn’t always like this we used to go to Egypt every year and we loved it there all inclusive hotel, loads of swimming pools UNLIMITED FOOD AND DRINK…..(my favorite part) I couldn’t walk a great deal my dad carried me to a lot of places we had my wheelchair too which some off you may know do not go on the beach…..my favorite thing to do is swim but back then my mum told me we had to do physio in the pool every day because I was so little it was so good for my legs. We never really went on a lot of trips because nothing is really catered for disabled people we could of gone on trips but with myself and 2 other siblings it would of been too much hard work, so we just stayed in the hotel the whole time it was difficult but I would make friend’s and spend time with them.

One year after my SDR surgery my mum and dad surprised us with a holiday on Christmas Day to Egypt we had no clue they had wrapped the suitcases up by now I was using my walking sticks and my walker I was still a little unsteady but I was doing OK….we went to a hotel but this time we did trips and my god the trips were amazing. We went to Luxor where I rode a boat across the river nile, we went to see Luxor Temple and We went to Valley of the Kings and we went to see mummy’s in the tomb’s….we went quad biking we went to this gorgeous Island called Mahmya Island. It was just the best holiday we really made the most of it and it was because I had SDR that I was able to do more things I wasn’t so stiff.

The things that were hard for me was using my walker because I got stared at. I know people are probably just curious about me which is totally fine but I just wish they would just come and ask instead! I’m guessing they were thinking “I wonder why that girl has a big blue thing with wheels!” They just don’t understand why I need it and even though they’re just staring because they might be confused or why I look like that, it still hurts feeling people’s stares whenever your out and about. Also because I wear AFO’S on my legs they stand out like a sore thumb….Of course, I still do get stared at now and I have ever since I was a little girl and some people might think that over time I’d get used to it, but it is something you would never get used to because it still hurts but I myself have accepted that I am different and I won’t ever stop being different. To me, being different is being YOU and being yourself and there is nothing anybody can do to change that; to stop being you! I would also fall down a lot (particularly over my own feet!) which is embarrassing and it hurts! Since my operation in January, I hardly fall over anymore which is great, but when I do fall over, I always say “I’m fine, I’m fine!” But inside, I just feel embarrassed and also silly because when I fall, I often hurt myself, someone, or something! Also, when I fall over, people normally ask “Is she alright?” Probably because I have a walker or my sticks or whatever I use. It would just be nice if people let me be independent and if I do fall, I don’t need a whole crowd but just one or two people would be alright! Let me know how often you get stared at and when you hurt yourself do you feel embarrassed?

Now, to a more positive note, what I find easy! I would say I find this easy now i’v had my surgeries (SDR, FEMORAL OSTEOTOMY. TENDON LENGTHENING) thank god I was able to get these done because I dont know how I would be otherwise. The things that I find easy is being able to do stuff at the beach. I love going to the beach and doing drawings in the sand and I especially love swimming in the sea. When I was younger I had a wheelchair I went around in (as I have mentioned in one of my posts) and I couldn’t do anything at all except go in the sand! It was pretty boring just sat there looking at how everyone else could go in the sea and have fun and I couldn’t. Well I could go in the sea but I had to be carried EVERYWHERE….. and at 4 years old it isn’t fun but now I’m able to go into the sea by myself and I can go pretty far out! I know that sounds daft but its a big thing for me which most people take for granted everyday.

It isn’t just me who struggles but it’s my family as well. They were the ones who had to put me in and out of my wheelchair and they would have to push me all the time! They diddn’t mind obviously but I can see now i’m older how difficult it could of been I had a baby brother at the time and an older sister with Autism so it wasn’t the easiest time. When I couldn’t walk they had to carry me EVERYWHERE. Every operation I had was in Leeds and one of them had to drive all the way there whilst the other stayed with my siblings. They never got enough time with my siblings because they had to see if I was okay and all that stuff. I had to have my own hospital bed at home to recover in for my first operation and I had to have breakfast in bed and I had to sleep downstairs and I appreciate and I love them for what they have done for me to make my life easier. But my family now make sure I live my life to the fullest especially when I go away on holiday and i’m so thank-full for these opportunities.

Some of you may know this, others may not but last Monday (21st October) I went to Turkey for a week! Gosh, it was REALLY hot there! I went on a four hour long flight and I stayed in the same villa I had stayed in for August last year to July this year! So I have been to Turkey 3 times so far, and twice in one year! I went in the pool almost everyday which was freezing! It took me, my mum and my sister AGES until we got in! The boys somehow did it with ease! It was like they couldn’t feel the cold at all! I got to jump in too! I also went on a boat trip, to the beach and we went to a bar called Dalyan Lounge every night! The thing I love about Turkey is they accept me and are so lovely, Turkish people don’t really stare at me it’s actually the English people over there that do. CRAZY. Lat year when we went to Turkey we had a few boat trips they were amazing we went to a mud bath it was so weird my baby brother Noah hated it!!! we had a BBQ on the beach it was amazing if you ever go to Turkey go to Dalyan…..

The boat trip was really good and relaxing! We saw turtles and fish and we got to look at the scenery which was beautiful! There were also mountains which fit in so well with the sun and the sky because the sky had no clouds at all! I diddn’t even see one the whole time I was in Turkey!

The boat took us to the beach which looked AMAZING. I went into the sea and I went underwater (which I instantly regretted because sea water went in my mouth which was DISGUSTING and the sea water also went into my eyes which stung as hell! Nooo! Just thinking about it is making me shudder!) I played in the sand with my 3 year old brother Noah and we made a “castle” (which was just a hill of sand but he thinks it’s a castle lol.) we collected seashells and rocks which was adorable!

Every night, we went into a bar called Dalyan Lounge and it was really good! We had a drink and we talked to the guy there called Sakir who has traveled almost the entire world! It was so fun! he really was great to our family he had a TV on every night and my brother Lincoln watched football every single night….. we diddn’t mind tho because we used to play whilst my parents drank cocktails!!!!! LOL

Thank you all so much for reading this blog I hope you enjoyed my picture’s I love looking back at them such happy memories, if you want to follow me on Instagram it’s katieholmes_zebedee_model https://www.instagram.com/katieholmes_zebedee_model/

my twitter is https://twitter.com/KatieholmesM

I hope you all have a fantastic half term if you are off I AM……WOO HOO

bye for now

Katie xoxoxox

Hi everyone! Gosh I am so sorry for not posting for a while! I’ve been too busy to write a blog iv had so much going on its been a crazy few months….. To make it up to you for waiting SO long for another post, I’ll make it extra long!

So let’s start off with my summer… it was really good! First of all, as most of you may know, I went to Turkey! It’s paradise! I went to a place called Dalyan we stay in a villa with its own swimming pool and it was beautiful, I have the bedroom and bathroom downstairs as its easier (its also right next to the kitchen lol) the whole holiday was really fun but soooo hot at the same time! I also did a lot of things like going in the pool a lot, going to the beach and going in the sea, exploring Dalyan by going on a fantastic boat trip, and trying all different kinds of food, and we even went Quad-biking! We went sooo fast! It was really cool and fun! being able to do things like this is amazing Im so lucky we always have the best holidays.

I went to the beach too! It was really nice! I even went in the sea and it was lovely, When I was younger I was in a wheelchair and its impossible to push a wheelchair on the beach and I pretty much couldn’t do anything at all I could play in the sand but I could barely move which wasn’t fun. My dad even had to CARRY me because my legs were so tight and plus I couldnt really walk back then, I am so thankful I am not like that now! I can do so much more now then what I could do then! I could use my walker to walk around but NOT on the beach. To anyone who is in a wheelchair I wish they made it easier for you to get onto that beach and into that sea, its something so many people take for granted.

Since it’s Turkey, it’s REALLY hot there, and it was kind of hard for me to walk around in the boiling heat! Since we are from England, we are NOT used to the sunny weather, it’s always raining! And if it is sunny, it’s a miracle! So it was kinda hard for me to walk around in over 40 degree heat without saying “It’s too hot!” haha. But you have got to make the most of it because when your home, you’ll miss it! It’s not like you could just click your fingers and freely return there right? Even though I wish that could be possible so then we could go back to Turkey whenever we wanted! Like, doesn’t it sound so cool though? One click of your fingers and… boom! Your back to sunny skies and beautiful scenery! Haha!

So anyway, the things I struggled with the most in Turkey is probably walking far distances, almost every single day for dinner, we would go to a beautiful restaurant and Dalyan had lots of things to do and lots of markets and it was really pretty! We walked there from our villa and it was pretty far… to me anyway! I got quite tired walking there and back which was hard so we started to get taxi’s. What I also found difficult was the eye’s staring at me. Believe it or not it was from the English people If you have been following my blog for a while you will probably know that I don’t like it when people stare. It just makes me feel uncomfortable to feel people looking at me wherever I go. I kinda just want to tell them “Hey! I know I have sticks but so what?? its crazy how I get more stares than an adult would with being disabled. To be honest the Turkish people were amazing with me so much patience they are so nice to me so accepting. Its my favourite place to go in the world my family love it there.

So, let’s talk about something different, let’s talk about something I got just recently, let’s talk about my new splints and shoes! My new splints are quite different, first of all, THEY’RE PURPLE! Finally! They are bringing back the colour’s and designs back! I think that’s fantastic for younger kids who love designs! I chose purple because 1. I’ts my favourite colour, and 2. It matches my school blazer! So it’s perfect! They are also different because there is an extra strap which keeps my feet down! I also got new shoes which, if you are wondering, have NOT got colour’s on them! Well… except from black… the colour I would not choose for my shoes. If it were up to me I would have… you guessed it! A pretty purple and pink shoes because… why not? And anyway, I want to be all purpled out! At first they were really heavy and they felt so weird! But now I am used to them! I see a lot of posts on Instagram about parents taking there child for their first pair of splints and I know its not nice and seems quite daunting but trust me as you get older they just become part of our routine AND they do help.

So, let’s now talk about school! I am now in Year 9 and it’s kinda hard because I’ve now got a lot more tests to do! And I have different people in my classes too where in Year 8, I had all my lessons with my friends and people in my class! I already chose my options though! I chose, French, Art, History Drama of course! And Food Tech, I’m not the best at cooking I admit (and me and my mum have a laughing joke about it because I made these vegetable cakes once and they were terrible LOL so my mum says I cant cook lol) but I love cooking and creating new foods for people to try and like! I’m making pizza with one of my friends next week and we are putting pepperoni and ham on it! Sometimes my co-ordination isn’t great with my hands everything isn’t always tidy like my writing, even tho my CP affects my legs more there is a tiny bit that affects my hands.

So onto something really exciting have you heard of a modelling company called ZEBEDEE MANAGEMENT?? well me and my mum applied for me to see if I could become one and they liked my photos and they have seen what I do on Instagram and they asked me to go down for a meeting and have a few photos took, it was amazing my mum drove us down from Manchester to London and we met with the people who run zebedee and it was just a brilliant experience I saw other people who have disabilities there and they want to represent me!!!! Its going to be an amazing experience I cant wait……they represent a girl called Daisy and she has 2 prosthetic legs and she walked for New York and London fashion week……imagine me doing that lol

Also, iv been fundraising for an amazing charity called Stcokport CP Society it was to do a 1 mile family run, I raised £246.55 it was so hard I think a lot harder than the great manchester run I did, I had surgery in January and I think its just taking ages to recover, but I did it i crossed that finish line, running 1 mile to you is like me running 5 miles. Also thank you everyone who donated I cant thank you enough I hope I get to do some more fundraising events in the future for them.

Thank you so much for reading all the way until the end! Wow! That’s so long!

If you have any questions, you can ask here or on my Instagram: @Katieholmesblog13

Have a great day!

Love Katie xoxo

Hi everyone! So things have been going well since the whole… incident… but we aren’t going to talk about THAT today, we are going to talk about some thing that has really changed my life something that is really important and that I think will reach out to a lot of people on my Instagram … my SDR surgery.

Firstly a bit about me…Obviously I dont remember any of this and sometimes when my mum tells me I do think WOW was that really me, I was born at 28 weeks weighing 1lb 5oz, I was tiny!!! One of the most common causes of CP is prematurity, I was born with a bleed on the brain which is what caused my Cerebral Palsy. Certain parts of the premature brain are vulnerable to damage, particularly the parts which control leg movement and co-ordination. This leads to excessive stiffness or spasticity in the leg muscles and it affected my ability to learn to walk. I didn’t start walking till I was 4/5. Spasticity also causes pain, and, over time, shortening of muscles and tendons, joint contractures and bone deformities. Spastic diplegia (which affects the leg muscles more than the arms) is the most commonly occurring type of cerebral palsy. (this is what kind of CP I have) Nerve fibres running from the muscles back to the spinal cord play a major role in maintaining this muscle stiffness. SDR, by dividing some of these fibres, is very effective at reducing stiffness and spasticity. Pretty amazing right even I don’t understand half of them words lol.

So rewind back to when I was a young child, I used to walk very very high on my tip toes like a ballerina dances but I walked like that constantly, my mum had to do stretches every day but it still never got rid of the stiffness and tightness, obviously I didn’t know any different it was just the way I learnt how to walk, my mum remembers asking my physio if there is any surgery I could have to help me walk and the physio said NO….. but to be fair SDR (selective dorsal rhizotomy) wasn’t really that well known in England. Then my mum met a woman who had a daughter called Darcey who had this surgery in America which helped her walk, it was called SDR, my mum did so much research about and she can only recall it being done in America, she says she thought to herself how the hell am I going to riase over £50,000, she would go on the internet and go on forums and speak to so many different people and then after a few months she found out it was done in England in Bristol so we got a referal to Bristol it was 4 hours away from where we lived and they agreed that I would benefit from it and we got the go ahead for me to have the surgery there. My mum would still go on these facebook groups and chat to people and she came across a lady whos son had SDR in Leeds well this place was only 45 minutes from our house and because at the time I had a brother and a sister, Leeds would be so much easier so again my mum went to the doctors for a referal and Leeds said that we needed to have a X-ray but the doctors refused to send us for one….so my mum got incontact with the local MP and explained everything about SDR and all about me and my condition and all of a sudden we got an X-ray!!!! even I think that’s pretty cool….

So we went to Leeds to see the doctor there who performs the surgery Dr Gooden he actually went over to America to train with Dr Park (who some of you already know) and Dr Gooden agreed that I am a good candidate for SDR, they just have to apply for the funding….But it turns out the NHS was stopping the funding for SDR, Dr gooden applied in April and in May the NHS stopped the funding so Dr Gooden obviously wanted to know because it had changed even tho they had already agreed to the funding could I still have the surgery????? YES I COULD!!!!!! I was the last person on the NHS to have SDR…wow can you believe it, why on earth would they stop funding for a surgery that helps children walk I don’t know…..

I remember going to Leeds I had to stay there for a month with my mum whilst my dad was with Lincoln and Emily, I will always remember the first time getting wheeled into the operating room; it was something I had never experienced before in my life! I will be totally honest I was petrified and every surgery I have ever had it’s still very scary to be put asleep, probably just as scary for my mum and dad, they have to sit and wait about whilst i’m having a major surgery. But is it totally worth it? YES!!! Let me tell you why its worth it…. Dr Gooden has to cut a nerve in my spine that was connected from my brain to my legs the part of my brain that got damaged when I was born affected this nerve, so cutting it released the tightness in my legs, which overtime brought my heels down so I wasn’t walking on my tip toes anymore, the surgery took about 5-6 hours obviously I don’t remember anything but my mum and dad said it was the longest 6 hours of there life….I was in bed for about 4 days until they started getting me up and about, to be honest it was pretty scary because I couldn’t do any standing up for 4 whole days, I was only able to lie on my back….luckily I don’t remember any of the pain THANK GOD but I can imagine it to be like the pain I had in my other surgeries. I remember all the physiotherapy I had to do and boy was that intense, I also had to go to the hospital school because I was in there for so long, I never got bored because there is some amazing staff who keep you busy with painting and drawing and watch DVDs, I also remember a little girl who was next to me besides my hospital bed who played tea parties with the nurses and me, (I was 7) and every night she would say ” Katie, I really want my mummy, where is mummy?” and I would always say ” She will be coming back soon!” I even stayed up with her late when she cried until she was alright because I felt really bad for her, my mum stayed at the hospital with me but in a building across the road from the hospital called Eckersley House, so she stayed with me the whole month my dad would come and visit every weekend. I even had some family come and visit me my Grandad came and Auntie Georgina and also my Godmother Roxanne came, I also got some sweets sent to my bed from my mum’s friend Heather AND yes I shared them with all the other kids.

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It’s quite a big thing apparently to be the last person on the NHS to have SDR, a reporter from Granada Reports on TV actually went over to America and did a story about SDR and my mum thought why not get it out there that the NHS are stopping this funding so she emailed a few newspapers and got in touch with our local news and they wanted to do a story on ME!!!!!! little old me!!!!! if you want to see my pretty face on the news here is the link…..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEuqFVQJRRI excuse the no front teeth LOL

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I was Dr Gooden’s 9th child to have SDR… I still feel lucky to have it in the NHS to this very day! I would have done A LOT of fundraising to have my SDR operation… It would have taken me thousands of miles to America! Honestly…. all the way to America for one operation? I feel like that is so wrong! It would have been so hard for us all to do all that fundraising and travel that way, Luckily now everything has changed you are allowed to have it on the NHS again now but only if they think your a good candidate, I just want to say to all the doctors and nurses ( If your reading this or not ) thank you all SO MUCH!!! I wouldn’t be the way I am today if it wasn’t for you! My advice to anyone having SDR surgery ( or any type of surgery really! ) It’s going to be alright in the end, it might be and feel scary but it really improves! Some people on my Instagram who follow me are getting ready for SDR surgery and I hope they read this and think ” I can fight through this like the warrior I am!” I really hope it makes you feel better about it! Iv actually just had my 6 year check up in Leeds with Dr Gooden and he cant believe how well I am doing I think he’s done over 100 children now which is amazing!!! all them children’s lives he’s changed……we have such amazing doctor’s and nurses. Also a lot of people are worried about scars don’t be…be proud of them its made them who you are below is a picture of mine at first it looked worst but now you can hardly see it.

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Any questions or anything feel free to message on my Instagram katieholmesblog13 or on my blog. my parents made a little video of my life up until I had SDR here is the link it shows videos of how I walked before and after hope you enjoy it…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmTDaysdN-M&t=3s

take care everyone

Katie XOXO

Hey Everyone! I’m sorry I haven’t posted in a while! I’ve been sooo busy these few weeks! In this blog it might not be as happy as you are normally used to but I truly hope you will understand how I feel once I’ve explained everything. Also, it might sound like I’m still angry at this all and I still am. So here goes…

So let’s start from the beginning shall we… so it was yesterday morning (or Friday 24th May if your reading this in the future) and it was English class, there was this boy sat in front of me… he was yapping off at me as usual because he had got sent out for rude behaviour, he tried to get out of having a detention and being sent out by saying it was all my faut and I said “It isn’t my fault that your actions got you sent out.” Then… he told me to shut up and he called me a word I’ve never been called before, the one all disabled children and adults hate… cripple. As soon as those words came out of his mouth, I felt like the earth just fell on me. You know when your really upset and hurt you just have a lump in your throat? That’s how I felt yesterday. I… I was just so speechless and hurt and upset and angry that someone would dare say such a thing! Not only was it hurtful, it was heard of from the whole class! After he said that hurtful word, everyone gasped and looked at me as I just looked at the floor trying not to cry, believe me I really wanted to but I couldn’t cry in front of the whole class, that would be even more humiliating! So when he had said that word, people told him to never say that. And to everyone at school and out of school who had sent such kind messages and comments about it, thank you all so so much you are so kind and thoughtful and it makes me feel a little better to know I’m not the only one out there dealing with this and that people care so much and think so highely of me.

At the end of the lesson, the teacher asked me what was going on because I think the teacher assistant told her, anyway I think she could tell I stopped putting my hand up and not being as happy. As I tried to explain to her what had happened, I think I must have welled up a little bit; why wouldn’t I? And then she said that she would phone my mum up at lunchtime. When it was lunchtime, I got a call from my mum. If there is anyone I know who knows that I absolutley hate that word, it’s my mum. She told me to keep my head high and to not be upset. When my mum reads this, I want her to know that I love her so so much, she is my greatest supporter taking care of me whilst I’m recovering from my operation at home, to jumping out of planes to make money for charity for me. When my mum was on the phone to my English teacher, my teacher said such lovely things about me and I thank you for that!

Someone on Instagram commented that karma will do it’s job and I really hope so too. He has already been suspended because of it for 2 days, I hope he gets a really big punishment at home. Not only it is offensive to me and my family, it is hugely offensive to other people with disabilities like me. If he reads this, I just want to say that it is hugely disgusting of what you have said to me. We never chose to be like this, it chose us. I have never known anybody in my entire life who would ever ever say that. I am actually tearing up from the memory and I will never forgive you. I wish you could know how incredibly hard it is having to wear splints every single day, getting stared at because you look different from other people, not being able to do things any other person would love to do like PE. Dance, sometimes CP can be so lonely, your lucky that im quite strong and comments from people like you dont affect me that much because bullying can affect people so differently. I hope you have got in to big trouble at home I could never speak to anyone the way you spoke to me.

To make this worse, this morning somebody texted me on my Instagram telling me “oh you have lovely legs shame they don’t work” And I just lost it. I don’t deserve to feel like this! To feel pain and sadness and anger, I don’t know what I have done to make people be so horrible to me and it isn’t fair! It really isn’t! All I have done is be me! And for some reason they don’t accept it one bit! People really do need to think about what they are saying before they say it, because otherwise there will be concequences! And yes I know that there are horrible people in the world and the world isn’t perfect, but are people really that horrible and nasty to call disabled people crippled and to say there legs don’t work? People need to understand what words can do to people these days. Just no this I will do the best I can do in my life to be happy and succeed in life I will try and fulfill my dreams, I will not ever let small narrow minded people like you affect me, you affected me for a day you made my heart break and you made me feel embarrassed that I have a disability, well no more….. I FEEL SORRY FOR YOU and I feel sorry for your parents.

That is going to be all for today everyone thank you all again so much for the love and support!

If you want to leave any questions or comments I will answer them all on this blog or on my Instagram: @katieholmesblog13

keep on smiling and putting your head high dont let anyone ever make you feel like your not good enough because you are….

xoxo Katie xx

Hey everyone! Yes I am finally doing another blog again! I’m sooooo sorry I haven’t done one in about a month! Anyway, today’s blog is going to be about my Easter half term and what i’ve been up to! Happy Easter by the way as well!

So first of all, I started my Easter by going to the park with my auntie’s and cousin’s! It was really fun and I didn’t exactly go on a lot of stuff at the park as some of you may no its quite hard as a teenager at the park! But…. I did go on this ride which 2 people have to sit on (It’s basically just a see-saw but you go up in the air and people spin you around.) and when I was on the ride with my cousin Jessica people spun my around pretty fats!!! and I mean fast my mums face was like aaagghhhh but I’m one of those people who get dizzy pretty fast. That’s why I don’t normally go on spinning rides because I never feel well afterwards! But we had so much fun seeing my family they completley understand my Cerebral Palsy and take there time with me and they dont judge me and I LOVE THAT. It was also the first time using my sticks…. it was hard my balance was rubbish my co-ordianation was rubbish there was big hill well it was big to me probably wouldnt be to you LOL I was so tired at the top I had to sit down where everyone else was fine. (little things that are different) but I just diddnt want to use my walker, I think I need more practise.

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A few days later, we saw them AGAIN at a farm! At the farm, we saw quite a few animals but me, my sister and my cousin Keira went on a loooong trail! (well, it felt quick to them but felt AGES to me, that’s why we sat down for a little bit and then set off again!) On the walk we saw a lot of dark tunnels which we went into but some of them were like never ending tunnels you might sometimes see in movies! We also did some weird stuff like the weirdos we are lol but in a very funny way! I got a few stares of little kids but thats OK its different I know I saw a few fingers being pointed but I diddnt care I was with my family and loving the day!

About a week later, we saw my godparents Roxanne and Stu there such special people to me they really make me feel confident and I just love them so much, also a really nice woman called Holly and her son Preston (Roxanne’s friend from London) at the park! (It even had a zoo there!) We had a lot of fun, we saw a lot of animals like peacocks which I absolutely loved! We even saw one with it’s wings out which i’ve never seen before! The only bad thing was… was the peakcocks screeching! They were so loud they sounded like the noise when cats fight with each other; you could hear them from the other end of the park! It was REALLY cold that day too! When we finished going to the park, we went to the Pub to get something to drink… don’t worry I only had Coke lol. After the Pub we went over to Roxanne and Stu’s house. (Well, on the way there, most of us walked whilst me Holly, Roxanne and my sister, my mum and Preston went in the car. (And hear me out, it is not fun when we all had to squeeze in lol but we managed it thank goodness! When we went in their house, it was so pretty inside! It was big and on the wall they have these plastic gummy bears on the wall and they were all a different colour. E.g they were purply pink, orange yellow and red and each colour of the gummy bear looked like it was dripping down the wall! (I do not think that was good explaining but I hope you know what I mean lol.) I say it a lot but spending time with people who accept you is so important even if it is adults it doesnt matter sometimes for me adults are easier to get on with then children they dont judge me they have more patience, even if you can count your friends on one hand it doesnt matter. It was the first time Holly meeting me and we got on so well shes lovely and her son Preston is sooo cute.

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2 days ago we went to the Pub near our house and got some drinks since it was a really hot day then. Luckily there was a play area for Noah so he dosen’t get bored! We talked about our holiday to Turkey in July and what we are going to do there! My mum and I are kinda hoping I can get a tan on holiday too! Then Lincoln’s friend’s parents came round too and we just talked about random stuff as well! They were very nice people! Oh it was also my brother Lincolns 9th birthday he got a new bike, football nets, football (pretty much erveything football related) he went to Stockport County Soccor Club for thr first week so every day of the week he played football for 5 hours a day!!!!

So I guess that is the end of this blog I hope you enjoyed this one as much as I enjoyed writing it!

Remember, if you have any questions you can ask me on either this blog or my Instagram @katieholmesblog13

I have 600 followers on my Instagram now so thank you so much to everyone who follows me…

I hope you all have a nice Easter whatever you are doing! ENJOY THIS WEATHER!!!!

Stay positive! xoxo Katie

Hey Everyone! Today its just a small one, I just wanted to write a little bit about Cerebral Palsy.

The type of Cerebral Palsy I have is Spastic Diplegia it affects my legs only, apparantly it occurs in 80% of all diognosed cases of CP. Spasticity refers to increased muscular tone, my legs used to be really stiff and tight but I had Selective Dorzal Rhisotomy to sort this out as well as another surgery. I think as I get older I will probably have more surgeries but for now im doing really well im hoping to start training with walking sticks the co-ordination is very difficult for me to get the hang of, but ill keep trying.

Cerebal palsy means quite a lot to me because in my opinion, it made me who I am. I honestly don’t know what I would be like if I didn’t have CP, but actually, I don’t really want to find out because if I didn’t have CP, I’m not sure I would have inspired people to never give up or just to be themselves! Sometimes I think yeah my life would be easier and I would be like everyone else but then CP makes me Katie Holmes, it makes me have this platform where I can raise awareness and help others and I love nothing more than people contacting me asking me for advice about CP, I think I have quite a lot to look forward too even tho I do have CP.

So about CP awareness day, it is when people can apparently celebrate and learn about it. How amazing is that, that we all get to celebrate a disability, to me it’s important to celebrate every disability out there because most people go on about there lives day to day not realising about other people’s struggles. I think its interesting to find out about other disabilities and this is something I really want to do, everyone who has a disability who has awareness days should be so proud its what mkes us different its what makes us us! We are people with feelings, Sometimes we allow people to ask us questions depending on what the question is, but for me, I allow any question and I will have a serious answer for you. That is why at the end of every blog I tell you that I am free to answer any question at all! My goal in life is to be an actress, or have my own bakery I would love to be a model so I can raise awareness for disabilities, I truly believe that when im older I will be a advocatte for cerebral palsy I really want to help others I just feel like I am a natural caring person, I care so much for other people I try and be a good person to talk too. Just because I have CP doesnt mean I cant make my dreams come true it might just take a little bit of fighting and being knocked down.

The reason I started this blog was just to inspire people, to show them that they are not alone with this disability. I wanted to show people what it’s like living with CP, the stuggles I have the obsticles I jump over, I never actually thought that loads of people across the world like Eygpt and America and loads more places would see this blog and say wonderful things about it! I kind of think thats coming true, I am raising awareness and I am connecting with a few hundred people around the world who have CP in there lives. I honestly love it!

I’m not sure how my CP is going to affect me in the future, but I promise that I won’t let take over my life! When I am older, I don’t want to be in a wheelcair because I want to be able to go out, have fun like any normal person would! Im not saying people with CP dont have fun but its harder, I want to be able to travel across the world, especially America and Australia, and learn new languages so when people talk in their language’s, I want to be able to talk to them and say: “Hi I am Katie! I would like…” I don’t want to be thinking: “um… does anyone speak English here? I don’t understand what the heck you are talking about!” I am doing quite well at French at school so maybe i’ll start of in Paris LOL.

I really really hope you enjoyed today’s CP awareness blog today, even if it was a little shorter than usual! I also want to thank everyone who has wore green today, even my mums’s friends did it and I love it because that is what raising awareness is about, each and every single one of you who wore green did that!

I love you all so so much, thank you all for the comments you put on my Instagram they really make my day better than it already was!

Remember that you are not alone and you are more than what people say you are!

Keep being yourself!

Love Katie xoxo

P.S: Remember, if you have any questions at all you want to ask me, I am avaliable on this blog, and on my Instagram: @katieholmesblog13

Hi Everyone! Today’s blog is going to be all about me being different or not! (also sorry I haven’t uploaded in like a week! x)

So, first of all, personally I myself think that I am different. I dont look different (minus the huge blue walker) I dont talk different, I just walk different. Also I do things different and I often feel different too. (that was a lot of the word different LOL) sometimes its the little things like I go up the STAIRS different! Whilst “normal” people go up the stairs, I sometimes CRAWL up the stairs! Why do I do that? because it is easier for me. My balance can be bad and sometimes people who I live with (not naming names LINCOLN) rush past me so its safer, at school I get the lift its safer, When I was little, I used to SLIDE down the stairs! I am starting to walk up but very slowly its even in my physio plan.

Another Example is putting my shoes and splints on. You might think putting shoes on is easy… but not if you have splints! My mum has to do it for me cause it’s just too hard, even with a shoe horn! when I wear splints I have to buy shoes that are 2X bigger than my normal shoe size, I know how to put my splints on, even tho it took me 12 years to do it, but when I try to put my shoes on, it’s so difficult! I hope I don’t wear splints when I am older because when I have them on, I just possibly can’t put any shoes on! Also I cant wear lovely girly shoes or strappy sandles and really nice trainers like my friends they always have to be a certain kind to fit over my splints. When I wear skirts or dresses everyone can see my splints and I know they dont make me ugly and I should be proud but untill you have worn them all your life you wont understand.

Another “glorious” Example, taking. a. bath. In my opinion, taking a bath isn’t just difficult for me, but for my mum as well. The reason behind that is because she has to BATH ME. I know… embarassing! And by the word bath me, I actually mean it! She has to wash my hair and that! I want to be able to bath myself soon because, I’m not a baby anymore! And I also want to give her a rest from doing it for me! I cant explain how much I hate this its very hard for me to wash my own hair because of my co-ordination, We have tried don’t get me wrong it’s just too difficult! Obviosuly when im older I will do it but it will take time practising.

Another Example is playing out. Don’t get me wrong, I love to play out with my friends, even if they are younger than me! But there are times when I feel left out. Like sometimes my friends bring their bikes or hoverboard or anything people can ride, they speed off leaving me to “run” after them! They do tell me that they will go slow for me, and sometimes they do! But when they do I feel like they don’t want to go slow with me and that they want to speed off together. Which I completley understand I would if I could use them, But when I have to run, I get really tired and I just need to sit down a lot cause I feel like most of my energy has been wasted by running after them. Alot of my friends go shopping or hang out together, I dont, its not that im not allowed its because they never ask me, maybe its because I have my huge walker, kids are all about being cool maybe they dont think im cool with my walker, I dont know…..

Another one is doing PE. I haven’t done PE since before my operation, but when I did, it was kinda different. Not as different as all the other examples I wrote, but whenever we play a game to do with throwing and catching, no one passes me the ball. (I feel like I have told you this story before… oh well!) And if the people who want to be FAIR pass me the ball, I might as well have it in my hands for 2 seconds throughout the entire game! It’s just SO boring just standing there! maybe its not about being different maybe its about the way people think, honestly tho people with disabilities get treated very very differently.

Another one is, going for days out as a familly together. I cant go and run like my siblings everything I do has to have much more thought about it, going to the toilet, going down steps, crossing the road, everything is a little bit more harder fro me I guess you can say that have more freedom and dont have to think twice about certain things. I rememeber for my 12th birthday me, Emily, my mum and my dad went to Alton Towers! (I even went on a upside down ride, even though I hate them!) and I had to use a wheelchair for the day. (But that was a bit good for me cause we could get first in line cause of it lol….we have to have some benfits from being disabled right??) Even though I was in a wheelchair throughout the day, it was still so much fun going on all the amazing rides! I managed to go on ALMOST all of them, except from… the Smiler! Gulp! I’m just shuddering just thinking about how many loops it had! If I went on it, Im positve I would of been sick!

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Enough with the examples, now I am going to talk about if PEOPLE treat me different…..The truth is, not really! When I am sitting on a table with my friends, they just treat me like any normal person! It makes me so happy when people don’t speak to me like I am a baby and include me in normal teenage things, sometimes people walk past me and go awww….why awww?? my whole life doesnt have to be about Cerebral Palsy I wish it was like that every day. What im trying to say is everything I do is done differently than you most things are harder, take twice as long, so I suppose I am different in that way.

My message to people about treating people different is that being different or being weird is just being yourself! People sometimes tell me that I am weird and I say “thanks! Being weird or different is being myself!” And some people say that there are a lot of different types of normal people, and being different and crazy and weird is being MY normal! Its ok to be different if we were all the same it would be boring!!

I hope you enjoyed my blog! Remember to be yourself! Love you all! Bye!

xoxo Katie

P.s: remember you can ask or tell me anything you want on this blog, or on my Instagram @katieholmesblog13 xx