Our Lives with Michelle McManus

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Michelle McManus gathers together a host of stories which reflect contemporary Scotland.

Michelle McManus gathers together a whole host of stories which reflect contemporary Scotland.  Upbeat, positive and inspirational, giving us energy to face the week ahead.

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Our Lives with Michelle McManus: The painless woman and turning loss to support

The painless woman and turning loss to support

BBC Radio Scotland - Our Lives with Michelle McManus, The painless woman and turning loss to support

A life without pain plus how to turn the ultimate pain into support for others.

Michelle McManus hears from Jo who doesn't feel pain, Ross who volunteers to cycle with the elderly and Kim who's turned a tragic loss into an incredible way of supporting others

This week in a very moving story Michelle talks to Kimberley Shaw who has turned her grief at losing her stillborn daughter Sarah into a way of helping other parents who have lost a baby to miscarriage, stillbirth or neo-natal death.   Kimberly set up a charity called Zaagi and, using the material from donated wedding dresses, she creates beautiful nestling blankets, wraps and blessing gowns so bereaved parents can wrap their tiny children. 

We also hear from Ross Nixon who – when he’s not on shift as a Highland fireman – volunteers for Spokes for Folks, taking the elderly on tours of Inverness in a specially designed trike.  

Plus we’ve an astonishing story from Jo Cameron who doesn’t feel pain but didn’t realise she was special or different until recently when she needed a hip operation!  She can even eat a Scotch Bonnet raw without feeling anything more than ‘a little bit of warmth’.

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