The (not so old) Crocks Cafe

purplecatlover

morning everyone.

i just discovered on my orange payg phoen that i can find ut local train times much much easier than using the laptop to google and trying to read the teeny writing that is the timetable, or open a pdf which crashes the computer.

me glad to hear your daughter is being so sensible.

cwta hope you slept well

saucy glad you went, sorry they were so anoying.

hope everyone else is ok.

kettle is on as always. who wa sit said you can never have too much tea?

black_paw

coffee please ..just up ..al that hot chocolate last night knocked me out,,.......

mobile phones are wonderful if you can work them !! lol i got a cheapy £ 39.99 a skyperphone on 3 net work.. put £10 on it get 300 text messages free... just found that out ! after 2 months .....3-3 call for 3 months ..1 month left ...fore ever skpe call free,....and just found...google street maps ..instant weather forecast...facebook wall...amazing quicker like you say than turning on the old computy

jazabelle

I've only just got up too! Been a busy week.

Last night I went to see Abba Sing-A-Long. So there is an Abba tribute band, but all the words are up on screen and you get a bag of goodies for audience participation in various ways.

My mum's friend even made us costumes (well a poncho with ribbon and all the names of their songs on!).

We'd got tickets with an aisle seat for me, so I could stretch out and fidget as needed. So the songs start, and everyone gets up their feet to dance. I can’t see a thing. I didn’t even think of that!

There is no point me even attempting to stand to try and see, as I was already in pain, and I knew it would just cause a mother of a flare up. So I’m sad, night kind of ruined. All I can see is back of some women’s top, that has an annoying spotty design, and is swaying side to side. I could have hung a top up at home and played some Abba music and got the same effect, all for free!

There are three older people behind me (in the very last row) that also aren’t standing. Two songs in I turn around and they’re gone. My mum’s friend then informs me that because they couldn’t see, they were offered a box. My mum then goes to find someone to ask if I too could have one, being disabled. They say yes straight away, and we’re taken into one.

Success! I can see everything whilst sitting, and I have something to lean on as well. And my mum can still dance away. J

I’m going to write to the theatre at some point to thank them, because they turned a ruined night into a great one.

black_paw

Jazz glad night turned out good in the end...i would not think of people standing up to dance in the very small spaces///but friend told me thats what they do ....glad you posted as if i happen to go will ask for seeing sit down seat ..you know what i mean..

treacle tarts ..coconut tarts on offer this afternoon and tea and coffee treats for pets and freash water put down going stale ...no pet visits ! lol

bigzippy

Hurrah Jazz, nice one

I'm having a bit of a bad day today. It's all gettin on top of me and I'm not seeing an end to all this...:(

jazabelle

black_paw wrote: »

Jazz glad night turned out good in the end...i would not think of people standing up to dance in the very small spaces///but friend told me thats what they do ....glad you posted as if i happen to go will ask for seeing sit down seat ..you know what i mean..

Thank you! It is definitely worth keeping in mind. I don't know if you say at the time you have a disability they would allow a box for the same price, or charge extra.

bigzippy wrote: »

Hurrah Jazz, nice one

I'm having a bit of a bad day today. It's all gettin on top of me and I'm not seeing an end to all this...:(

Thanks bigzippy!

So sorry you're having a bad day. Do you want to talk about it? Is it because you're in so much pain at the moment? I know it all takes so long to heal and is so frustrating. Always here if you want to chat on here, PM or MSN.

HopeAndDriftWood

Hmm...DLA appeal.
I requested someone to look at it again, and an appeal. Recieved appeal papers about a week after they said someone would look at it again and be in touch.
This was on the 19/9. All thats in it is my doctors notes and my first claim form, absolutely nothing else, even though I've sent them much more!

All the appeal guides I can find seem to suggest I should have acts and regulations, the decision makers reasons, my reasons for appeal, a summary of facts, etc....

Any idea what I do now? Still wait? Or shall I write to them?

I've had an ESA medical and WRA since, and have today recieved a report saying I will be unfit for work for 6 months plus. Shall I attach evidence of this?

Thank you all!

jazabelle

Yes, they sent me all paperwork I had sent them - and when I sent them new stuff, they would resend me copies of that as well. I also had the decisions makers reasons, after I requested an appeal and they looked at it again. Then it went to tribunal.

Yes, I would attach that - every little helps!

How is your foot today?

bigzippy

jazabelle wrote: »

So sorry you're having a bad day. Do you want to talk about it? Is it because you're in so much pain at the moment? I know it all takes so long to heal and is so frustrating. Always here if you want to chat on here, PM or MSN.

Don't know what to say really. I'm just sick of it taking so long and not really feeling like there's any improvement. If it was just the ankle (in which the pain had started to settle down but has now flared back up) I could deal, but it's knackering my entire leg now. It bugs me that the only real way I can ease the pain slightly is to have a hot water bottle on the leg areas...but I'm now struggling to bend my knee too (I still can't bend my toes or my ankle) which surely isn't good. Then it seizes cos I've got to hold it in a certain way to even slightly keep/get my ankle comfy, and I have pain again. Then add in that it's agonising (and I have to rechange my position after) to get up and go to the loo or anything.... *sigh* I'm just bored with it. And I'm sick of being on my own too. I know he has to go to work and I even know he has to go to see MIL, but I still don't like it. Tonight he's at work, tomorrow is church in the morning, which after last week's fiasco I can't face trying again just yet but he may go alone?, then the week begins again! So he'll be at work all day mon, then wanys to go see someone on Mon night, then work all day tues, and has work tues night too, then wed work all day, then says he needs to see MIL in the eve - which I can't really dispute cos he hasn't seen her all that much this week... and that's just the next few days...:( And when I get down I bring him down, and I feel like there's an expiry date on sympathy andmine's fast approaching...but I don't see it improving any time soon, and I also think it's gonna get worse before it gets better - cos I think whatever the physios finally do will HURT and make it hurt more before it makes it any better.:(

...Can you see where I'm goin with this...?:o

Pain. Loneliness. And I just want someone to tell me what the hell to do with this bleedin ankle/leg!

HopeAndDriftWood

Sore! Went to my GPs yesterday, who dressed it for me, and said I should go back to A&E, but they don't care. It goes from being hot and tingly to stabbing pains, and then numb. My shoe doesn't fit over it anymore. It's clean and dressed though, so I'll leave it for now.
I don't know what to argue, as they haven't put why they rejected me!! I shall write back anyway, I think, I'm getting all my paperwork done tonight.

Got my lovely 42" TV tonight, so if boyfriend was here, it'd be perfect. Apart from the pains, of course, but they are part of the package now! And I thought I'd come get to know everyone in here

BZ - I hope you are feeling a little better...chin up