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The pair of 'black glasses'

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 Hey, welcome back to the blog! Here a (little) update about myself: I have not posted in a long, long, time. Sorry for that! My moods were not that good to be honest. I did not had the energy to do anything . Nothing for school, nothing to relax and did not go outside; basically, I neglected myself. All I did was eating unhealthy snacks - lol. I think that a lot of students are familiar with this, because it is partially (or even mostly) caused by the Covid-19 lockdown, of course.  Currently, I am doing pretty well, to be honest. I have been depressed for quite a while, but I beat it! It took a long time, but I have learned/pushed myself to not be prejudiced about everything and to not just see the negative things of everything. I learned to stop looking trough a pair of 'black glasses', as my psychologist called it.  It was a pretty rough time though. I have literally fought my way trough it, but it was all worth it, now that I can actually enjoy things again :).  ...
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The wheels; a spinal cord injury (SCI) (Part 1)

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Welcome back! I know it's been a while ago since I posted something, but here I am ;).  The Spinal Cord Injury; what's it like? Feeling The spinal cord injury causes me to be wheelchair-bounded, yes, but it comes with much more than just the wheelchair (!).  In my post about 'the accident'  I said I couldn't feel anything because of the spinal cord injury. In the period of recovery, some of the feeling came back. Not everywhere though; there are certain areas in which I can't feel anything. The feeling that did  came back is not the same as how it used to be; I still hardly feel anything from the waist down, but what I do feel, feels very 'dull'. Like if you are touching it through a very thick layer of skin.  Besides this, weird, 'new' feeling, I also can't feel any temperature. People often ask me questions like: 'what do you feel if you don't feel any temperature?'. Well, this question is kind of hard to answer. I described it ...
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Deafness, a small introduction

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Hey, you! Welcome back :). Today a little piece about my hearing loss. I won't write down everything, so if you have any questions or things you want to know after reading this, you can ask me anything! I like it when people ask me questions ;). What's the case? After the meningitis I became (almost) deaf. With my left ear I'm completely deaf, and with the right one I can hear about 10-15% of what someone is saying. Unfortunately a hearing aid doesn't work, we've tried it several times, but it did not help. Probably because the damage is so deep inside of my head (the auditory-nerve), but we're not sure because they (the hospital) can't do any research on that level. That sucks a lot... The weird thing is, 'normal' people hear the low-pitched tunes good, and lose the higher-pitched ones (think of an elderly person); I can hear the high tunes way, way better. I just completely can't hear the lower tunes, which is very weird. Not that I can hear th...
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The 'accident'

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 A lot of people already know this story. Whether you do or you don't know it, I think it's important that this story is accessible to everyone. September 2018: the month where it all happened.  Oxford The beginning of this month couldn't be any better. We went to Oxford with school. I was 15 years old at this point; traveling with friends and kind of 'on your own' (that's what it partly felt like) was like a dream coming true.  I literally had one of the best weeks of my entire life. I stayed with a host family with two of my best friends. If we weren't at the house of the host family, we were with our group from school. Besides the mandatory activities - which were all fun to do - school gave us some spare time in the city of Oxford. Being with friends, alone, in a city abroad; it was amazing. The hours we spent in the bus to travel from the one place to another, were simply the best ones.  If I knew I would've been infected with the meningococcal bact...
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The Start

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  Hi everyone, Welcome to my blog!  I'm Terry and at the moment of writing this, I am 17 years old. My native language is Dutch -  I live in the Netherlands - so if you spot any mistakes in these posts, feel free to let me know!  You might ask yourself why I'm typing in English while it isn't my 'main' language; well, I know multiple people (friends, family) who speak English and I would love it when everybody is able to read and understand my posts.   I decided to start a Blog. Why? Because I like to share my experiences with people :). I don't have a lot of contact with friends (at least, not anymore), but I'll tell you why that is in another post, this is just the 'introduction'. But besides that, now, in the middle of this Covid-19 crisis (even less contact with people), I just feel like I need something to express myself, my feelings and my experiences. Don't think that I'm only doing this to express myself. No, I'm also doing it bec...
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