"Tough Love" Cuts for sick and disabled!

bigboybrother

I suppose that if ATOS contacted my GP/consultant to find out if I was refusing treatment the answer would be yes. If that treatment would improve my health - most definitely.

But they (DWP/ATOS) must respect a person's wishes to not have to undergo dangerous and complicated surgery so that their claim for benefits could be reduced.

bigjl

Don't understand that last comment.

Most people that I have spoken to over the years, many of which working for the NHS.

Would do almost anything to get back to good health.

Over half the staff at my previous station take one or more analgesics to get through a shift.

Some have been on physio for years trying to come back from an injury.

A girl I knew broke her back in an RTC but was lucky enough to get away with just nerve damage followed a few years later with spondylitis.

She was sacked at a Capability Hearing. No pension, nothing.

I would undergo any surgery if I thought it would fix my chronic neck and back pain.

I can cope with the neck and back pain as I have done for years.

But the pain caused by the fibro and RA pushes me past my ability to suck it up.

If I could get rid of one I would be ecstatic.

I would have no problems in holding down a full time job.

But at the moment that is unlikely, the fatigue caused by chronic pain is also debilitating.

I also know of people that can walk round a park in Chelmsford for two hours without complaint but then attend their GP being pushed on a wheelchair.

If the government want to find benefit scrounges a really good place to start are boot fairs.

Just find all those turning up in a Motability car should give them something to start with.

If I had a choice of living to 80 as I am or 65 without pain I would chose 65.

Brassedoff

bigjl wrote: »

Don't understand that last comment.

Most people that I have spoken to over the years, many of which working for the NHS.

Would do almost anything to get back to good health.

Over half the staff at my previous station take one or more analgesics to get through a shift.

Some have been on physio for years trying to come back from an injury.

A girl I knew broke her back in an RTC but was lucky enough to get away with just nerve damage followed a few years later with spondylitis.

She was sacked at a Capability Hearing. No pension, nothing.

I would undergo any surgery if I thought it would fix my chronic neck and back pain.

I can cope with the neck and back pain as I have done for years.

But the pain caused by the fibro and RA pushes me past my ability to suck it up.

If I could get rid of one I would be ecstatic.

I would have no problems in holding down a full time job.

But at the moment that is unlikely, the fatigue caused by chronic pain is also debilitating.

I also know of people that can walk round a park in Chelmsford for two hours without complaint but then attend their GP being pushed on a wheelchair.

If the government want to find benefit scrounges a really good place to start are boot fairs.

Just find all those turning up in a Motability car should give them something to start with.

If I had a choice of living to 80 as I am or 65 without pain I would chose 65.

Do I detect someone who is or was in the job? If so, I know what you mean.

My wife ended up on a discharge after being put headfirdt through a fence while trying to nick a large bloke.

Moving on to your other point, I believe you are so right. I have not been able to get around one for a long time, but you can bet your bottom dollar there will be a large percentage claiming one thing or another, yet doing booting as an almost full time job.

A good place to start, then the markets and other types of fairs.