'The Elusive Kebab' Intro from russellrobert9 (inc blog)

Hello.  I’d like to introduce myself as Robert Penny*, aged 62, white, male.  I have had a disabling condition since November 2017.   I had what I thought was a problem with my lower back, but it turned out to be metastatic prostate cancer.  The cancer cells had spread to my spine and overnight I became paraplegic.  Since then, I have lived in a care home for the last 3 years.  I use a power chair and get out as much as I can (or did prior to lockdown).  I am fortunate to still have use of my mental faculties and enjoy doing cryptic crosswords, quizzes, word puzzles.  I also enjoy reading – mainly fiction.  I’m ashamed to say that until I became unwell, I had never read a book by a female author (at least as an adult; as a child I’m sure I read Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Black Beauty by Anna Sewell.   Friends tell me I have still retained my dry sense of humour.   I’ll let you be the judge of that.  I’ve managed to write a blog, which people say makes them laugh, and also gives them insight into the challenges faced on a daily basis by someone with a disabling condition.  I joined Scope because I wanted to make new friends who are in a similar position to me.  Here’s the link, please feel free to peruse.  http://robertsramblings2.blogspot.com/   

*Robert is my middle name.  Penny was a shortened version of the first name of my sister, of whom I remember very little (she died in early childhood)