Kitten In the City

Kitten In the City Neurodiverse - AuDHD AWS Data Architect. A Georgia peach transplanted to Cape Town, the most beautiful city in the world. I have 3 beautiful, clever children.

I am a Georgia Peach transplanted to Hout Bay, a charming little village near Cape Town, South Africa, the most beautiful city in the world. I'm Cherokee & Scottish by heritage and a Data Diva by trade- a bit geeky, a bit spiritual and a bit ditzy all at the same time. I have experienced living on both coasts of the USA: in Georgia and LA. I have residency in 3 countries and I've lived in South Af

rica, Northern Ireland, and several cities in the UK. I've also worked in or spent a lot of time in New York, Brunei and Singapore. I've been fortunate to travel quite a bit and my favorite cities are Paris, Amsterdam, Florence, and my fave holiday destination is the island of Sardinia, such beautiful food, people and beaches. I have had some amazing bucket list experiences from going to tea in the gardens of Buckingham Palace & watching my husband receive an MBE from the Queen at Windsor Castle, to snorkeling in the Bahamas & orienteering through the forests of Brunei. They are adults so not really children anymore! I am very proud of them. I have 2 beautiful granddaughters. I am married to a sexy handsome Scotsman with a kilt, who loves me unconditionally and is my rock.

Thanks for being a top engager and making it on to my weekly engagement list! 🎉Patricia Bates, Don Miller
08/07/2025

Thanks for being a top engager and making it on to my weekly engagement list! 🎉

Patricia Bates, Don Miller

08/07/2025

I fly back to Cape Town today. It’s been a lovely weekend with my grown children & grandchildren 💜

06/07/2025

Trust me to defend the omelette girl from a guy ‘teasing’ her. Stop.

06/07/2025

In 2018, 22-year-old Grace Spence Green was walking through a shopping centre in London when a man landed on her and broke her spine.

The man had just jumped out of a third-floor window - and the impact left Grace paralysed from the chest down.

She woke up to find herself on the floor, with a body lying next to her. "I remember screaming and the sensation that I couldn't feel my legs," she says.

Grace was a medical student. She hadn't expected to end up as a spinal injury patient herself. But, she believes the bizarre accident has made her a better doctor.

As a trainee medic, Grace knew all about spinal injuries. Nonetheless, it took her a long time to accept what had happened to her.

"I just felt that, oh, I'm not one of them. I'm not disabled. I'm not going to be in a wheelchair. That's not me. They've got it wrong."

She often felt powerless, and unable to advocate for herself.

"It was very humbling suddenly being on the other side of the bed, how often I felt out of control of my situation, how often I felt like I didn't have any autonomy or any dignity."

She was sent to a rehabilitation unit, and gradually came to terms with the extent of her injuries. She also found camaraderie with other patients, like Vince, a scaffolder in his 40s:

"it's just a closeness that I haven't really experienced before because we've gone through this thing together, and now we call most days and he's coming to my wedding."

Grace also began to confront some of the prejudices she didn't know she'd had as a trainee medic - like the idea that disabled people had a lesser quality of life. Now, as a qualified doctor, she says her time in the spinal injury unit was the best placement she could have had:

"It taught me about dignity and autonomy... There's a real openness I find with patients, a kind of understanding I don't have to build."

As for the man who fell on her, Grace feels very little. "It feels like we were strangers, we collided, and we are just strangers again."

What she does know, is that by breaking his fall she somehow saved the man's life. So, rather than holding onto any anger towards him, she channels it into her biggest passion: advocating for change in the way society sees disabled people.

🎧 https://bbc.in/4knKQRp

06/07/2025
What do you mean autistic people don’t feel the cold
04/07/2025

What do you mean autistic people don’t feel the cold

Awww he was one of my favourite actors RIP
04/07/2025

Awww he was one of my favourite actors RIP

Stunning!!!!
04/07/2025

Stunning!!!!

03/07/2025

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