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Trialia wrote: »

Do any of you have Twitter or LiveJournal?

Nope neither. Hope you're on the up though tria, you've been flared for a long time now :cool:

SaucySecrets wrote: »

Also got declined again for a wheelchair, my consultant wrote "You are only 19, hold it out. You don't want a life sentence yet."
No, I want a wheelchair, so I can try and get some independance. Grrr...

I know that feeling. I'm nearly 10 years old than you and I got a very similar response.

saucysecrets wrote:

BZ - Looked at your pictures on facebook, you look brilliant. Your wedding looks like it was an amazing day!

Thanks It really was! I'm really happy with how the photos came out too, cos they're not "professionals" who did them...

jazabelle wrote: »

I just looked up Shopmobility funnily enough, before coming here.

I was looking to see how much it would be to hire a scooter so I could go Christmas shopping.

It costs £15 for membership (which you have to pay) and £2 every time you hire one out. Seems a hell of a lot to me. I only wanted to use it once or twice.

Do you not have a Red Cross? Search online?
You only pay the £15 as a one off (it was £10 for me) and I hired a wheelchair for 8 weeks for £20...maybe they do a long term hire where you could use it for a week or two to do all your Christmas shopping and it would be more cost efficient?
Remember, that a lot of places have them now to use in their store...supermarkets, b&q, maybe wilkinsons and places like that? Work out how many places you want to go and whether they don't have them and how much it would mean to you to go there? It's usually worth it.
I used one in the Trafford Centre and I went in nearly all the shops on it. I think there was only one that I left it outside of, taking the key out first. I wondered about that too...

Trialia

purplecatlover wrote: »

tria i hope that was you i just commented to on ljuk and not some other trialia

*laughs* My dear, there is no other Trialia. Unless you count a horse called "Prince Trialia" and an Aussie food company as people. So yes, it was I, and I've just added you.

bz, thanks. I have, and I hate it. Combination of the damp in this house and the emotional atmosphere, I reckon. But it seems to be easing up. Good to see you around.

Invasion

I can't believe the treatment some of you've had re;wheelchairs. My OT insisted I had one, I use it everytime I leave the house and I'm younger than most, if not all of you! I don't understand where this ageist disability attitude comes from...! There's very few illnesses/disabilities that choose not to attack you because you're young.

Jaz, can't believe you have to pay for your shopmobility! I don't use ours, as I have my own wheelchairs but when my electric wheelchair's tyre went flat (and they weren't allowed to supply a pump due to health and safety!!!) they let me use it for free, and that's the way it is for everyone, at least in Telford, don't know about our other towns.

bigzippy

Trialia wrote: »

bz, thanks. I have, and I hate it. Combination of the damp in this house and the emotional atmosphere, I reckon. But it seems to be easing up. Good to see you around.

That'll do it. Getting out of there before winter really sets in would be a definite positive methinks!

Invasion wrote: »

I can't believe the treatment some of you've had re;wheelchairs. My OT insisted I had one, I use it everytime I leave the house and I'm younger than most, if not all of you! I don't understand where this ageist disability attitude comes from...! There's very few illnesses/disabilities that choose not to attack you because you're young.

Agreed :rolleyes: It's beyond annoying.

Invasion wrote: »

Jaz, can't believe you have to pay for your shopmobility! I don't use ours, as I have my own wheelchairs but when my electric wheelchair's tyre went flat (and they weren't allowed to supply a pump due to health and safety!!!) they let me use it for free, and that's the way it is for everyone, at least in Telford, don't know about our other towns.

At Trafford Centre you don't have to pay, just show them ID to sign up and that's it. In the local town you have to pay something like a couple of quid a day to take them out. Apparently you can't just be signed up to one in one place and it means you're signed up wherever either...:rolleyes:

Paparika

Hiya all hope you are all well

I went through my i can post stage again, but feeling better.

Shopmobility is on the other side of the road from me (cabot circus shopping centre too) there is no membership fee, if i need to borrow anything its £1.00 per hour.
no one has asked me to be a member.

Need some advice for cheap wheels.

my electric wheelchair needs replacement front wheels, something neither my son or me can see has been rubbing against the wheel on the right, and now a huge chuck of wheel has come off, the left side wheel is going the same way..

its a small adult chair, although i am no supermodel in size, i would say i am of an average weight (i think) i did wonder was i too heavy for it? where would be the best place, bearing in mind i had to just pay up £200 advanced payment on the new car as motability said no to paying themselves, so a lil skint, or should i write to santa and ask him :rotfl:.

poohbear59

Hi,

I haven't been here for ages. I hope you are all as okay as possible.

SS sorry you can't get a wheelchair. Have you tried social services, I rang my district council and they sent someoe out here to assess me. You can refer yourself. That is what I did after getting no joy from GP or hospital. They gave me a perching stool, pick up thingy, hand rails on stairs, bathrooms etc and other a wheelchair too.

purplecatlover

*waves* to all

pooh and pap., nice to see you.

lw youve been unusually quiet, you ok?

bigzippy

purplecatlover wrote: »

lw youve been unusually quiet, you ok?

Mr lw is off work this week so they're doing things together this week

Pap can't help you with that one I'm afraid

poohbear nice to see you

:wave: to everyone else.

My rental agency is screwing me around again and I'm livid. I rang up and went ballistic before and was just in the process of writing a particularly snotty email back to them when I get interrupted by the wench who let herself in last time.... now I'm so drained from all the anger and confrontation that the smallest thing is setting me off. I'm well fed up. I finally got the dvd from my brother with his photos on....and my puter can't read it - it's telling me to select files to burn to it... I've had enough.
With everything.

Invasion

Oh BZ, I can't do anything but send virtual*hugs* your way, days like those are horrible, hopefully things will be a little less overwhelming tomorrow?

A girl from AYME (Vikki) and who's around here somewhere.. though not this particular topic, has put this video together http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUPkja02uR4 about severe ME, my picture's in there along with other aymers (I'm Rachel, with the teeniest bedbound time on there) and some other people who are/have been bedbound.

Trialia

bz, hope things sort out for you. That sounds like a horrible situation to be in.

Invasion, I get the ageist disability attitude all the time. I'm 23 and I look healthy, so even when I have my walking stick, people treat me like I'm faking it, and if someone asks me what I do and I tell them I'm on disability because I can't work, well, I've had some horrible reactions to that from people. I hate it. I've always wanted to be a librarian, but being unable to work gets me treated like a malingerer and as if I'm mooching off the state.


*sighs* Well, I had a pain level of 9 when I woke up this morning, took half an hour to walk a quarter of a mile to the bus stop to get to my doctor's, with both sticks. She's quadrupled my dosage of pure codeine from what it was before, since I can't get to see my pain specialist until December, and now my pain level is at about a 4. Which is such an improvement... I am warm all over, I think mildly stoned. Not a bad feeling, really, compared to this morning!