Another DLA refusal!!!

heidiprincess13

well said, the dumb !!! should get the message, lol. Expect it was bought with tax payers money!!

Richie-from-the-Boro

Just hit the triangle on the RHS folks

dmg24

wheezymummy, you appear to have completely ignored my post explaining why your claim may have failed. All the posts in the world can say 'I know how you feel' or simply 'appeal' might be very nice, but they are not going to help you succeed in your claim. Can I politely suggest that you pay heed to those who are offering constructive advice?

jennie-jack

ignore the trolls. have you ever had home oxygen?, been in intensive care? im presuming these would be good reports to send them.

i had a medical for dla and the doctor was interested in me ending up is resus. i didnt claim purely for asthma though as its part of my condition. maybe ask them to look again or ask for a medical. if a doctor is sat in front of you they can see how breathless you are. i was ill when mine came and could hardly speak. he was so nice and even picked my post up on his way out so i didnt have to get up.

Richie-from-the-Boro

SingleSue wrote: »

If you had every seen your child struggling for breath, being wired up to god knows what monitors, tubes everywhere and the uncertainty of if he was going to survive it, not once but several times...you would not be so jokey about it.

Asthma can kill, so far, my youngest son has managed to come back (with lots of medical intervention and stays in intensive care) but I always know at the back of my mind, that the next time he may not be so lucky.

It's Andy again, or wherever he is now !

teabag29

OP I can really sympathise with you. I was born with severe asthma and spent most of my childhood in and out of hospital, permanently on steroids and a home nebuliser. My gp said it was the worst case of asthma he'd ever seen and on one attack told my mum he didnt think I would make it. My grandfather died of asthma so my mum knew how serious it was.

Fortunately about 10 years ago it started to ease off and I had my first asthma attack for 10 years just last year...it is slowly getting worse again though. You are so right when you say only an asthma sufferer could understand how hard it is to do even the simplist of things, for me my life was based on the sofa and even going to the toilet resulted in me on all fours on the floor gasping for air, it was awful. Night times are the hardest, I dont know about you op but lying down was near on impossible for me. This is something that has remained and I have to sleep with atleast 4 pillows so that im upright.

With regards to needs i'd disagree with the poster who said you have no care needs. A serious asthmatic has alot of care needs. Isnt there a question that asks can you make a meal on your own? you'd have to live it to understand....getting off the sofa and walking to the kitchen would be nigh on impossible on a bad day let alone standing and cooking. The gasping for air and wheezing is only part of it, the sheer exhaustion of fighting for breath all day leaves you shattered.

Ok so I was a late teenager when my asthma was that bad but even so I dont know where I would have been without my mum, she did everything for me, she had to because I couldnt. You have no spare energy, all your energy goes into trying to breathe. My mum had to cook for and feed me, bath me, hook me up to my nebuliser, get my pills, help me to the toilet etc and transport me.

Dla may not improve your asthma but it will help pay for taxi's to all your appts and things so that you do not have to struggle walking and will help you to pay for a nebuliser as you say.

iluvmarmite

Sorry wheezy I have to agree with stockwire on this one, of course disabled people are able to go on holiday, but from your description, you saying you are too ill to leave the house etc, it sounds like a trip to Euro Disney on the 30th of this month would be an impossibility for you. I am not being nasty, although it may sound like I am, but what would the DLA people think if one day you are telling them you need their money because you are too ill to do anything, and the next you are having a jolly old time with the kids at Euro disney.

teabag29

Have I missed something? what trip to disney are ppl talking about, I cant see where op has put this?

skater_kat

perhaps wheezym can get a portable nebuliser in time for eurodisney?

sunnyone

skater_kat wrote: »

perhaps wheezym can get a portable nebuliser in time for eurodisney?

Why bother when they booked it without having oneso mustny have needed one?

My sister never had a holiday abroad, she couldnt because she was so ill and had to be near an A&E unit at all times, they once nearly bought a house but pulled out when they found out it would take longer than 10 minutes to get to hospital in rush hour as her consultants always insisted she lived within 10 minutes of hospital.