The injustice of the Blue Badge scheme

Exercise is very good for OA knee so it'll be handy for when you get your new knee. It may also mean you to get back to twerking much quicker.

Same here - I was diagnosed with severe osteoarthritis four years ago.

Despite this - and my mobility being reduced to a matter of yards, with assistance, I ws told stright-up there was no chance of my even being considered for a BB. Mainly because the surgery I was told to expeect in 5-6 months was expected to improve matters considrably.

Of course then (still being reasonably fit and healthy otherwise), the NHS must have decided I was low priority and kept bouncing my operation, insisting on "further tests" and even cancelling surgery whilst I was actually prepped and in the ward!

So it took a full three yeaars to get me the surgery I needed, during which time my mobility became much worse/more painful and I became more unfit in many other ways - incl the osteoarthritis affecting one shoulder. Needless to say, the delays were not considered important as far as a BB was concerned.

However, in that perod, my work made reasonable adjustments to my job, so I could continue working and all parking issues were quite reasonably and amicably sorted - even where the dreaded TPS were involved as a contractor.

All the stores I used regularly were quite happy to give me a disabled adjustment without a badge and I was only questioned on a couple of occasions but never got any ticket to challenge. So maybe you need to go that road for plces with private parking you use regularly?

Anyway, the first anniversary of surgery is tomorrow, I can move a lot better and was able to dispose of walking aids six months ago, although I still can't move as far or as comfortably as I like but my other shoulder was recently diagnosed the same, so I still havee some degree of movement and discomfort problems even still. I'll be interested to see if that will eventually qualify me...?