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living with a chronic condition (part 4)
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Guess I will have to just carry on as I am and try to ignore it all but some days I wake up feeling whats the point. Im one of those people who pretends everything is ok but inside I feel like throwing myself under a bus.so i suggested i asked the guys n gals on here what relaxing spa type would be good.
Hydrotherapy? is one i can think of,
but i would love to know what other things are out there, good and bad points.."I am indelibly stained by hope and longing" - Nuts in May0 -
I'm still looking around for a treat. What i want (i think) is a pedicure, manicure, massage, facial...just a all over treat (but gentle)Life is about give and take, if you can't give why should you take?0
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That sounds nice. A lot of complementary treatment can be painful, so those just sound nice and relaxing"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow." - Orison Swett Marden0
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Speaking of buses...(tenuous connection alert) ...if you get the mobility element of DLA then you would - regardless of whether you can drive or not - get money for travelling expenses...eg instead of getting a car allowance, you get taxi/bus/petrol for other drivers allowance. Then you could take your kids to school in a taxi? There are also taxi schemes that purely pick up your kids from your house and take them to the school, and the same in reverse. From what I understand they tend to use the same drivers for safety etc. HTH?
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Ive never applied for DLADont think I would get it. I do have a free bus pass but thats all. Thanks though.
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Ive never applied for DLA
Dont think I would get it. I do have a free bus pass but thats all. Thanks though.
I think you'd have a good shot at it. Or at least ask your local CAB what help you might be entitled to?
"I am indelibly stained by hope and longing" - Nuts in May0 -
Why not apply for it? What've you got to lose?
I think you'd have a good shot at it. Or at least ask your local CAB what help you might be entitled to?
I might do. The trouble is when its bad its really bad but then I can have a run of being ok so Im really not sure how I would fill in the forms.
Will try CAB as well, thanks0 -
Hi, I just want to add that i have M.E. i have had it for almost 10 years, and i am at the stage where it probably wont improve anymore. i do seem to have relapses, bad days and sort of ok days. I can walk but i am very limited as i get sever exhaustion and pain. I am telling you this as it is worth applying for DLA, I get both the care and mobility componants. which have been a godsend. i now have an automatic car, which without i would be housebound.
With my car, a cupbored full of tablets and my lovely TENS machine i get by. but also being a single parent to 3 children, life can be somewhat of a struggle.0 -
sorry, i didnt even introduce myself...HI, hope you dont mind me joining you all so late, i didnt know this thread was here0
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I might do. The trouble is when its bad its really bad but then I can have a run of being ok so Im really not sure how I would fill in the forms.
Will try CAB as well, thankssorry, i didnt even introduce myself...HI, hope you dont mind me joining you all so late, i didnt know this thread was hereIf you wanna join us in the (not so old) Crock's Cafe too..? We're allowed "off topic" chatter there y'see...:rolleyes:
"I am indelibly stained by hope and longing" - Nuts in May0 -
Ohh thankyou, its very nice to have somewhere to discuss things like this. and a cup of tea would be good with the pew!!0
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