It was not until Lindsay went to live at SeeAbility’s Heather House, that she knew
that chocolate cake was her favourite food. Lindsay has poor sight, profound multiple disabilities
and has been fed by a tube into her stomach for the past 10 years.
Since arriving at Heather House her team of support workers has assessed how much she can do for herself
and with encouragement Lindsay has learnt that she can eat nearly all of her food by mouth (she still
uses the tube for top up fluids.)
If it weren’t for Heather House, which began as the pipe dream of a group of concerned parents for a
residential care home for young people with juvenile Battens and other degenerative diseases,
Lindsay probably would never have discovered the joy of eating chocolate cake, let alone regained a
fresh appetite for life and the opportunities it still presents.
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