Mar '26 For the past ten years, to the present day, I have spent all of this time with some timescale of bed rest required in my day from the effects of pressure sores. Pressure sores are the bane of the wheelchair users life. You are doing very well to avoid them at least once in your life. They are not to be treated lightly as my own testimony should confirm. In 2016, I was working in an office in Lochgilphead for the Local Authority. I was experiencing issues with spasm in my back, often causing intense spells of excruciating pain. I was being sent home from work early on a regular basis while I awaited the results of neurological investigation. I was experiencing a level of discomfort which caused me to shuffle and fidget regularly in my wheelchair as I attempted to settle a regular, pin prickly, burning sensation in my lower back. One morning I woke up with a bloody stain apparent on my bedsheet. I thought nothing much of it and went off to work. Over a spell of a ...