not looking disabled?!

Trialia

sunnyone wrote: »

The NHS can prescribe any chair that you need, I have a lightweight and a powerchair currently.

Wow, lucky you. I can't use a manual chair at all, and they won't let me have a powerchair on the NHS unless I'm already using a manual full-time - which I can't do. Your PCT must be unusually generous!

melbury

Errata wrote: »

Breaking News :rotfl:
Parked in a disabled bay and displayed my BB this morning. It was the last bay and the next bays in the row are the mum and kids ones. A mum heaving her child out of the car next to mine gave me the filthiest look imaginable. Sadly she didn't realise I could outdo her in the filthy looks stakes, so she got one back multiplied by a factor of several magnitudes. Made my morning :j

Now that really does pi$$ me off - nothing to do with disabled badges.

I just can't understand why mum and child bays should be so close to the shops. These are healthy young women who have a baby. Surely they are as capable as anyone else of walking from the far side of car park if need be, so why do they get such preferential treatment.

celinepatricia

jizzler wrote: »

i cant wait personally until this new law comes in about not being able to have a blue badge unless you ACTUALLY have to use wheelchair to get about in. should of been brought in years ago.

What law is this? Ive never heard anything about it!

Not every disability is to do with using a wheelchair, as other posters have said there are a lot of disabilities that are not apparent when you look at somebody. I really think that the person who posted this is very ignorant!

daska

sunnyone wrote: »

Why dont you get a chair that you can use then?

The NHS can prescribe any chair that you need, I have a lightweight and a powerchair currently.

Unfortunately I live in an area where, unless you need to use a wheelchair around the house, the NHS will only permit you to have a manual chair. It's not unusual, I know of 3 other areas that have exactly the same rule and have moved areas and double checked (in other words begged) for a chair that fits my needs and limitations.

I'm pretty certain we've had this conversation before, went off on a tangent when ONW and others decided it was totally unreasonable for a medical professional to prescribe a wheelchair to someone getting HRM...

Trialia

daska wrote: »

Unfortunately I live in an area where, unless you need to use a wheelchair around the house, the NHS will only permit you to have a manual chair. It's not unusual, I know of 3 other areas that have exactly the same rule and have moved areas and double checked (in other words begged) for a chair that fits my needs and limitations.

*points up to her post and nods* Which really messes me up as my HRM goes mostly on care & it would take me at least 2 years to be able to afford a powerchair with that - because I can't use it all for that. I've got too many other expenses of my disability to be able to put my DLA aside every month. *sigh*

A_Flock_Of_Sheep

If a law is brought in whereby you need a wheelchair to get a BB then they can no longer use the HRM DLA as a passport entry to the BB.

To get HRMDLA you need to virtually be unable to walk or suffer severe discomfort. Also people with mental problems can get HRM DLA.

I assume that they will scap linking BB entitlement to HRM DLA

daska

but as they're scrapping DLA in favour of PIPs in a couple of years that is academic

All this change is giving me the pip!

celinepatricia

A_Flock_Of_Sheep wrote: »

If a law is brought in whereby you need a wheelchair to get a BB then they can no longer use the HRM DLA as a passport entry to the BB.

To get HRMDLA you need to virtually be unable to walk or suffer severe discomfort. Also people with mental problems can get HRM DLA.

I assume that they will scap linking BB entitlement to HRM DLA

My husband suffers severe discomfort but does not use a wheelchair>

sunnyone

daska wrote: »

Unfortunately I live in an area where, unless you need to use a wheelchair around the house, the NHS will only permit you to have a manual chair. It's not unusual, I know of 3 other areas that have exactly the same rule and have moved areas and double checked (in other words begged) for a chair that fits my needs and limitations.

I'm pretty certain we've had this conversation before, went off on a tangent when ONW and others decided it was totally unreasonable for a medical professional to prescribe a wheelchair to someone getting HRM...

Trialia wrote: »

*points up to her post and nods* Which really messes me up as my HRM goes mostly on care & it would take me at least 2 years to be able to afford a powerchair with that - because I can't use it all for that. I've got too many other expenses of my disability to be able to put my DLA aside every month. *sigh*

I turned down a powerchair for years because it would have been any good to me but I had to get one when I couldnt manage a manual anymore, the NHS fund wheelchairs where there is clinical need, you must have the need daska to have one at all, have you had the senior therapist to look at why you cant use the one you have now to see if they can provide something that you can use?

If they cant you would have a cast iron case for a powerchair, it must be worth a go.

I could walk with crutches when I turned down the powerchairs and the assessment did cover wether your home is suitable to wheel around but it didnt say that you had to be wheelchair bound.

tralia HRM dosnt come into wheelchair provision on the NHS, have you discussed your needs with the senior assessor?

There are none powered wheelchair aids to help people who have hand/arm problems and I dont know if these would help you?

I hope you took a wheelchair trailia, if you havnt you will never get a powerchair but if you have one and its no good you just keep telling them why and asking what they can do to help you, you might wear them down if you continually ring, I did and got a fancy light weight a few years ago.

A_Flock_Of_Sheep

celinepatricia wrote: »

My husband suffers severe discomfort but does not use a wheelchair>

That is the point I was making. That to get HRM DLA you DO NOT need to have a wheelchair - so linking HRM DLA to a BB law stating you need a wheelchair is nugatory.

I expect PIP will have the same criteria as HRM DLA - same dog different breed.