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Trialia

Maybe you should try typing the address into the address bar next time instead of into Google...?

jazabelle

Trialia wrote: »

Maybe you should try typing the address into the address bar next time instead of into Google...?

Google is my homepage, so I'm always typing websites into there instead of the address bar. I don't know why, it's silly! Laziness, I guess? I prefer to click rather than type.

nanamoo

next time you go to paypal, book mark the page then you just gotta click on it in bookmarks and you then know its the proper page

Pauper_Princess

Thanks for all your replies :j:j and thanks purplecatlover for your pm! I checked the DIAL website but there doesn't seem to be one near here, nearest one is 70 miles away :eek:

My head's too fried from work to think straight tonight, need to go through the SOA with a fine toothcomb yet though to see where we can cut back. Too much to do on an alcohol-less Friday night though.

OH had a phone interview with ATOS doc this morning and they've said they're going to recommend work leave off sacking him until he's had his op which will be about 6 weeks. I still don't think he'll get ESA after reading out some of the questions on the form to me the other night!!!

Thank you all once again :T

PP xx

[Deleted User]

always go to paypal via your "my ebay" page

only got 3hrs sleep last night - but cold is going....stiff and creaky as an old gate today but I went out! Mocha & cream & my lovely Fiance. Yum. I'm wonky but I'm lucky.

Happy weekend everyone

Invasion

Starting to feel a little better today after 2 days of not even getting dressed, I agreed to babysit tomorrow a while back and it's not something that I feel I can leave them in the lurch with so I'm expecting at least Sunday to be spent recovering. Monday I have the first of 2 exams for second year of A levels, but I've not been anywhere near well enough to revise, let alone take the exam and so it'll be a dr's note thing, which upsets me hugely.

Just about well enough to get the 3 hours spread over 3 days of the course done, but not well enough to take the exams... Trying to decide whether to even stay at college this year, I've struggled with education for the last 4 school years, had to sacrifice my social life and doing anything I'd really like to do to get through GCSE's and now A levels, whilst ill. It gives me my only independence, taxi picks me up, and for an hour at college I'm as near to normal as you get in a wheelchair, and then it's back home where I crawl up the stairs and lay in bed for the rest of the afternoon and most of the evening trying to recover. Insane? I don't know.

Joolz hope you get a better night tonight!

jennihen

Morning all!
I've had a good few days activity-wise but am paying for it in the mornings and at night.
Went out on Thurs!! Went to watch DS play an accoustic set at a community project launch - Invited about 10 other peeps so it it was a very enjoyable evening and of course I basked in all the praise for DS!!
Also had Academic tutoring for all 3 which was beyond all my expectations. The 2 girls especially doing well at college - I can't ask any more of them (except maybe tidy up a bit more!!!)
I'm back on the house-hunting trail - there are a few more coming on the market now which looks a bit more hopeful.
Hope everyone else is well. Making pancakes for DS2 in a bit - anyone else up for some?
Has Lady M been around at all?
JH

purplecatlover

morning all have a good day.

re paypal, i was going via google becaus ei couldnt get my pw right to log in via the ebay check out. common occurance for me to forget passwords lol. it was the very first result returned on agoogle search, using the log in link which was the sub one of the second result iykwim didnt flag anythign dodgy up. thansk for all the tips.

jazabelle

Invasion wrote: »

Starting to feel a little better today after 2 days of not even getting dressed, I agreed to babysit tomorrow a while back and it's not something that I feel I can leave them in the lurch with so I'm expecting at least Sunday to be spent recovering. Monday I have the first of 2 exams for second year of A levels, but I've not been anywhere near well enough to revise, let alone take the exam and so it'll be a dr's note thing, which upsets me hugely.

Just about well enough to get the 3 hours spread over 3 days of the course done, but not well enough to take the exams... Trying to decide whether to even stay at college this year, I've struggled with education for the last 4 school years, had to sacrifice my social life and doing anything I'd really like to do to get through GCSE's and now A levels, whilst ill. It gives me my only independence, taxi picks me up, and for an hour at college I'm as near to normal as you get in a wheelchair, and then it's back home where I crawl up the stairs and lay in bed for the rest of the afternoon and most of the evening trying to recover. Insane? I don't know.

Joolz hope you get a better night tonight!

Glad you're feeling better - it's a shame you don't have longer to fully recover (whatever that means for us!!) I hope it doesn't set you back.

In regards to college. Please try to keep with it, you can do it! You've put 12 and a half years of education in - you've just got half a year to go! I think if you dropped out so close to the end, you would regret it.

I do understand - I started to get really bad whilst I was at uni. I would describe my last year as hell on earth, but I put all that work in, and things had to give - and that was friends, hobbies, etc. Sacrifice your social life - it's until May/June isn't it? Then you have the rest of your life to socialise! I know it's hard, but it will be worth it when you get your results. And you will savour those results so much more than everyone else.

The day I got my university results, where I had done better than I expected - rates as one of the top days of my life. My healthy friends got the same result as me, when they weren't on the brink of the edge just by being at university, so it does mean a whole lot that I did it.

jennihen wrote: »

Morning all!
I've had a good few days activity-wise but am paying for it in the mornings and at night.
Hope everyone else is well. Making pancakes for DS2 in a bit - anyone else up for some?
Has Lady M been around at all?
JH

Wow, you sound busy! I was actually craving pancakes with chocolate sauce yesterday! When is shrove tuesday? I've never made pancakes for it, I must try and remember this year!

jazabelle

I'm super stressed today. I put in my DLA application (it was either the end of October, or end of November), and had heard nothing. Today I got a letter from them, and opened it thinking it was going to tell me I was not being awarded (I am positive like that!), instead it told me they were still looking at it.

I then opened a second letter saying a doctor is visiting me on Tuesday. Bloody lucky I wasn't working or had an appointment, then, isn't it!

I'm really scared - I've heard nothing but bad things about these doctors, that they look for anything that might trip you up. For example one lady had just changed the black rubber bit on her walking stick, and he turned it upside down and then wrote down she doesn't use it as it looked clean! (Instead of just asking her!)

Has anyone had one visit? What kind of things do they ask? Is it medically slanted (which would be fine) or the same questions as on the claim document? If it's the latter, I'm scared. A care advisor helped me draw out everything that could help and put it in the right way - I'm not going to remember half of it, I get panicked and babble a lot under pressure, and I won't remember 75% of the relevant things.

He will be able to see how awful my stairs are, and why I need so much help I hope. Will he make me walk up the stairs? I only go up once a day to bed with help from my mum and it leaves me utterly exhausted - so can he insist I go up them? Can I just say no?

He will also be able to see I can't park near my house. I make it to the car by taking my time, having help from my mum, but will he just say 'yes she can walk'. It's about a minute up the road, and up a hill. I am having an application for a disabled parking bay in the nearest spot though, so I will try and mention that.

Please help me, I'm so worried!