Parking with a blue badge when looking "normal.."

Mupette

Brassedoff wrote: »

I have a nice Range Rover, but I know what you mean. The looks you get when you park up in it and put the blue badge (I have one of the nice new hard plastic ones renewed under the new rules) in the window, then the wheelchair comes out. You get looked at with expectation that you should drive a Nissan note or something.

That's my car :rotfl:it's automatic, meets my needs, i love it.

mazza111

I get the looks atm too. They see me and my daughter pulling up into a disabled space. They soon look away when DD gets out the car with aircast on one leg and full leg brace on the other. Best thing to do is ignore them. Wish I could afford to get a car that both of us find easier to get in and out of, but until the car fairy comes along we're stuck with my old skoda

Lum

Mupette wrote: »

That's my car :rotfl:it's automatic, meets my needs, i love it.

Indeed, nothing wrong with them, just a perfectly good ordinary car.

It's the assumption that if you're disabled you can't possibly be driving anything unusual, fun or expensive.

NeverInDebt

Or for that matter young. Disabled is unfortunately not just for the eldery

Lum wrote: »

Indeed, nothing wrong with them, just a perfectly good ordinary car.

It's the assumption that if you're disabled you can't possibly be driving anything unusual, fun or expensive.

treeboa

please feel free to give me a bit of face to face about it, i drive a mitsubushi warrior, im disabled, yes you can have my badge and you can have my free tax, hell i will give you the vehicle - its not mobility i purchased it out of my own money not benifits

you also get a pair of knackered lungs, a heart thats well past its best by date, the remnants of a smashed back, one hip that needs replacing but im too young and another thats not far behind it, i cant use crutches because my wrists cant support me, you can also have the drugs that go with it, hell the depression you can have as well free of charge

i get out of it a body thats going to allow me to go back to work and live life like i should be able too

or you can turn around, walk away realising the vast majority of people who are disabled you cant see the damage

Ellejmorgan

Brassedoff wrote: »

The woman is a man! I wish I only suffered with what you've got, but never mind, I also wish I was only on morphine, move on from that a while ago. If you cannot breath, walk or whatever, what would you have done as you are so mad,mad,mad?

Seriously, if you have what you say you have, you don't have a slipped disc. I have lost count of the people I know who have been off work for an age due to a slipped disc, yet play sports, walk to the pub, and enjoy life. That is what I mean by slipped disc!

You didn't read it properly did you..
I have 3 slipped disks which affect my arms and legs and neck..
Wish it was only one, and for your information i'm on more than morphine..
Had 2 ops and up for a third, so if you think that's easy going then you have no idea...

You are obviously one of these 'i'm ill so no-one else can be' people..

gingergee

Well back to the OP. My shiney new blue badge has come!!!!!!!! At min i look quite "normal". Gonna use it and put it in a diary on DT!
See how many comments/looks etc. Also will compare the looks i get in my current car (aka banger) and when my shiney new zafira (eventually) appears!! lol x

Lum

Ellejmorgan wrote: »

You are obviously one of these 'i'm ill so no-one else can be' people..

Not commenting directly on this, but another one that really winds me up, and it happens on this very forum is "I have X condition/medication and I manage just fine so you can't possibly have a problem".

E.g. I have seriously epic chronic eczema that covers my entire body. It has nearly killed me on a couple of occasions and caused several long hospital stays, but most people are all "oh, what's your problem, my baby had that on his elbow for a couple of days so stop moaning, why don't you try hydrocortisone cream". Please just shut up and go away.


Related: If you have multiple conditions, you'll get the same crap from NHS doctors, e.g. my GFs physiotherapist looking at her foot, which has CRPS, telling her to use crutches without taking into account M.E. or hypermobile shoulder joints that randomly subluxate.

tonyw151

Lum wrote: »

I think the injections are only really available for people taking MTX for more serious conditions than mine. I was on it for severe eczema. For now I'm managing without it, just using double the amount of steroid creams, much to the annoyance of my GP who is only prepared to prescribe enough for two coatings at a time.

I still think its worth asking, due to liver function tests my dose is being reduced to 10mg from 25, I was originally prescribed it by Dermatology for Psoriasis, but not under Rheum for related arthritis. Steriods come with their own problems.

FleurDuLys

I agree with Lum. Disc problems affect different people in different ways. Some people who have problematic discs will have minimal problems and will fully recover, while others can be in agony with nerve pain 24/7. It's really unfair to say that someone can't be having great problems just because you yourself have found things a lot easier.

I have had a 16 level spinal fusion, with discs removed and vertebrae fused throughout my thoracic and lumbar spine apart from the L4-L5 and L5-S1 discs right at the bottom, the only part of my back that can move. Those discs are degenerating fast but I have no real problems from them - I can walk for miles, climb mountains etc. Yet a friend of mine had one disc bulging that left him in completely agony and unable to work until he had surgery to fix it. I'm sorry you're suffering, Elle.