Anne, 70, from Port Talbot, Wales who learnt with UCanDoIT:
“I have M.E. and have had for 33 years. I am very limited mobility-wise. If I can go to chapel on a Sunday for an hour and a half I have had a good week. I often have to be assisted out of chapel to the car.
I was a very active person who is now totally frustrated by my inability to do the things I want to do, ie. Gardening, decorating, dressmaking, socialising, very much, I used to organise street parties, nights out for my neighbours. I loved my working life which involved driving and communicating with the public. I loved life! I was active, fit and always there for anyone who needed me. Now thanks to UCanDoIT and my tutor Trina I have a new life. I have a life on the computer.
I have made several friends who are very special to me. I have one particular friend, who is blind, that my tutor has enabled me to contact via web cam. I had never heard of web cam before. This has brought a whole new world to me. I now contact cousins in Spain and friends in Australia.
I took the course because I needed something to stimulate my brain. I needed something to make me feel that I wasn’t absolutely useless. The course has made me realise that I am not as redundant as I believed I was - 70 is not the end of the road!“
