Mali and Me

Sharing life as a business owner, chronic illness advocate and stoma blogger

Sharing life as a business owner,
chronic illness advocate and stoma blogger

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Welcome Readers,

MY NAME IS IMALI

I’m a proud Wife, Founder and Stoma owner, based in the South of the UK. This is my space on the internet to share snippets from my day-to-day life, along with things I’ve learnt along the way. My aim is to raise awareness for EDS, Ulcerative Colitis, Autism and Arthritis.

Welcome Readers,

MY NAME IS IMALI

I’m a proud Wife, Founder and Stoma owner, based in the South of the UK. This is my space on the internet to share snippets from my day-to-day life, along with things I’ve learnt along the way. My aim is to raise awareness for EDS, Ulcerative Colitis, Autism and Arthritis.

Winter Gardens Carpark – Bournemouth: An Accessibility Nightmare!

Fighting for Care: When the NHS Fails Disabled Patients

No colon, still rollin’ – My new wheels – Sunrise Medical Quickie Carbon Q50R

  • If you’re seeing this, then the Instagram algorithm clearly thinks we should be friends!
    8 hours ago
  • Autumn is a full-time job actually 🍂

There are dungarees to wear. Pumpkins to hold. Decorative gourds to become emotionally attached to.  I don’t make the rules, I just follow them. 

VD:
1: Three-photo collage at a pumpkin patch, showing me in a brown pumpkin-print dungaree set and a green wheelbarrow. The text reads: “October looks good on you.”
2: I am holding a pumpkin in a field, with a playful camera-interface overlay and orange stars. Text reads: “Consider this your sign…”
3: I am lying amongst scattered pumpkins (yes, I regretted that when I tried to get up!), holding a small pumpkin above my face. Text reads: “to romanticise autumn,”
4: I am standing in the pumpkin field holding a pumpkin beside my face. Text reads: “to dress for the season,”
5: Looking down at black footwear amongst orange pumpkins and green foliage. Text reads: “to pick the perfect pumpkin,”
6: Close-up of a large textured orange pumpkin held towards the camera. Text reads: “to make ordinary days feel a little more special,”
7: A pile of orange, yellow and cream pumpkins in the field. Text reads: “to soak up the season…”
8: I am standing in the pumpkin field holding a pumpkin in front of the face, with small illustrated stars above. Text reads: “more autumn adventures, please.”

(Hashtags)
#Autumn #PumpkinPatch #AutumnDay
    22 hours ago
  • AD: No more fighting with bottles of laundry liquid - laundry sheets have arrived! 

These 5-in-1 detergent sheets smell incredible and have made doing my washing so much more accessible for me. I love it when I find things that genuinely help me to be more independent, and save money!

What do you think, would you give them a go?

AD PR gifted: All views and opinions are my own. 

VD: A white woman, with curly brown hair, wearing a brown and orange pumpkin dungaree set. She is sitting in a wheelchair, holding a bottle of laundry liquid and a box of laundry sheets. 

(Hashtags)

#AccessibleHome #IndependantLiving #BabeWithAMobilityAid
    4 days ago
  • This is your sign to get an autumnal haircut 🍁 

VD:  A white woman with brown wavy hair covers the camera in the first clip. In the second, she has a fringe and wavy hair in a fresh haircut. 

#Fringe #AutumnalHair #Autumn
    1 week ago
  • Time for a Disneyland merch haul... which piece was your favourite? 
I love the array of shops at Disneyland Paris - you really can find the most unique things. 

VD: Imali, a white woman with brown hair wearing Mickeys shows you various things she brought back from Disneyland Paris for herself and as gifts.
    1 week ago
  • Galavanting with @sakaradee during October 🍂 How we do love an adventure (and coffee!)...

VD: 
Photo 1: A group photo of six of us at the Sociability party. 
Photo 2: Sakara, sat in her wheelchair wearing a colour coordinated outfit with Georgina. 
Photo 3: A rear view of Sakara wheeling into the distance after the party, smiley yellow wheels on show. Another wheelchair user is in front of her.
Photo 4: A selfie in a hotel lift, when we had just grabbed some food from the Uber eats man. Sakara and I both look sleepy and we're grinning.
Photo 5: Our hands, holding some delicious looking coffee, in blue to pink ombre mugs. I am wearing pastel checked trousers.
    1 week ago
  • AD | The best disability-related item I took to Disneyland Paris! ♿️✨
Honestly, where has this been all my life?!

This Flexi Phone Holder from @theactivehandsco is a must-have! As someone with tremors and involuntary movements, my phone has a habit of suddenly ending up on the floor, especially when it’s balanced on my lap while I’m wheeling around. This has completely changed that.

It uses a really clever Fidlock vacuum system, with magnets helping your phone snap into place and a vacuum seal holding it securely. So I can just pop my phone onto the grip and wheel around without constantly worrying about sending it flying. 

The thing I loved MOST was being able to have the Disneyland Paris map and navigation right in front of me while I wheeled. No having to keep stopping, getting my phone out, checking where I was going and putting it away again. It was just there whenever I needed it!

Now I'm back, I use it all the time day-to-day too and I wouldn't want to be without it. 

If you want to try one, you can get 10% off with my code MaliFPH10 at:
 www.activehands.com/product/flexi-phone-holder/

They also have another version that clips on both sides and is designed to be compatible with a DSLR camera, which looks SO cool and is now firmly on my list.

AD: PR gifted product, but all thoughts are my own. I genuinely love this!
    2 weeks ago

Introducing The Chronic Club

Being iconic doesn’t take a day off. Neither do we.

My Motability Car

Proudly working with Snows SEAT CUPRA as a Motability Ambassador

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