Taxi...from an ugly duckling to a swan

taxi73 · 15 September 2012 at 1:11PM

chevalier wrote: »

Would the macmillan nurses help with the benefit angle?

would guess so if I needed them to but am going to give the benefits people a couple of weeks to try to sort it 1st x

mum2one · 15 September 2012 at 8:30PM

taxi73 wrote: »

would guess so if I needed them to but am going to give the benefits people a couple of weeks to try to sort it 1st x

Just a thought it may be worth trying your local council as they have a department that helps with forms etc, have you reapplied for DLA. Thinking of the care, - even low care is £17 pw, that boils down to 1 hr needed a day,
- cooking - are you safe lifting pans across, can you bend down to open oven, x

taxi73 · 15 September 2012 at 11:20PM

I've never applied for DLA ..I should but the forms and the thought of getting rejected scare me.I do need quite a lot of help with bathing and dressing and certainly can't cook a meal,I can't do the cleaning or shopping either but that would be admitting I'm disabled and don't want to.I'm hoping that one day I'll be better and can do all these things for myself and that losing weight will help with my osteo artritis.

On that note I'm going back to WWs on wednesday as I've put loads of weight on stuffing my face thinking I was going to die anyway.
I'll go for 2 wednesdays and then depending on times of radiotherapy will either go weds or saturdays...I know I won't have radiotherapy on saturdays so can definitely go then

mum2one · 15 September 2012 at 11:24PM

even if you apply for DLA don't look as thou ur admitting your disabled, think of it as extra help and the money to help get the things you need. Your Mac nurse would help as they know what words to say.

Thats brill about weight watchers, youve done brilliantly and your soon be back in thw swing of things, hope everyone ok. xx

taxi73 · 15 September 2012 at 11:31PM

Will have a think about it especially if I need to contact the mac benefit people..
family is fine thanks x

taxi73 · 16 September 2012 at 2:18AM

I can't believe it...some !!!!! have just wrote our cab off on the prom.I now don't have a penny piece coming in to the house!!!

Gemmzie · 16 September 2012 at 10:01AM

That's awful, what happened? Do you not get a courtesy car from your insurers?

youareallhelpingme · 16 September 2012 at 12:47PM

Taxi - I normally just read to see how you are doing but felt I needed to post today as you may not be aware that you can claim for loss of earnings from their insurance - I used to do this as a job many moons ago. They will work out your earnings from you accounts, work out an average daily/weekly rate and then a settlement. I know it doesn't help in the short term but you should get it back eventually. x