The OS Doorstep - a helpful and supportive thread in these tough times

stiltwalker

AOT - wish I could like your post half a dozen times at least - so pleased for you chick and really hope it helps. Don't forget to check if it opens other doors for you too ie warm home discount on you leccy or any other subsidy type things.


Tallu - hope you find something that helps - I'm one who burns the candle at both ends, well considering what I'm trying to fit into the day I may have a smidgy flame in the middle too. I take a kelp supplement (as do a few others around these parts) and I also try to eat really well and regularly even if I'm try to organise kids/do forum stuff/OU work and all the 101 other things I fit in somehow and have to eat while doing (although I do try to break to eat).


Currently sat in a hotel room at Kew (the purple one that Lenny promotes) as we are down here for a meet up with a load of other families who have kids with the same genetic disorder as our little guys - met up with quite a few at dinner and DH has gone out for a few mucky beers with the other dads tonight, us mummies get wine out on our own tomorrow! Both kiddies fast asleep and cute as buttons with it - we used the Merlin passes again at LEGOLAND today (they were the best buy, going to have to get them again next year, particularly as the kids seem to be turning into adrenaline junkies - they just love the rides, I think it's the whole sensory experience which just works for them.


Can't remember if I've said Monna - it's good to see you back and good luck unpacking - we're still a work in progress here with a shed full of boxes so known what it's like.


Catch you all later - H X

kezlou

Brilliant news AOT regarding PIP


Don't forget disabled discounts on buses, coaches and trains.
Winter fuel allowance
Cold weather payments
Free prescriptions, dental treatment, hearing and sight tests
Oh and you can get a CEA card, carers go free into cinema with you.
You may even qualify for attendance allowance or severe disablement allowance.

Always looking into it.

My Dads 67 years so qualified for attendance allowance, we were told to apply for severe disablement allowance as well.
Total god send, it really does help

Knit_Witch

erm no to free prescriptions etc , at least not with DLA which PIP is replacing

kezlou

It all depends on how much you receive and which component you have qualified for.
Pip is already in force here it's the only reason i know about it to be honest. A number of people with pip here are receiving free prescription or major discounts
But all depends on which components of DLA you have been granted.

For example high mobility generally means a blue badge DSO low mobility wouldn't receive one

paidinchickens

ArthriticOldThing wrote: »

I just want to say 'THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU' to whichever wonderful friend on this thread (sorry I can't remember who exactly) last year advised me to apply for PIP. :A
I had not applied for any benefit as didn't really believe I was entitled to anything. However, I did go thru the process, and though it has taken nearly a year, I have just heard that I HAVE been granted some. YAHOO!!!! Means might be able to have the heating on occasionally this winter.:j:j:j


I am sooooo grateful.

Well done, what a relief. I can't believe it took a year though that's terrible.

PiC x

ivyleaf

It looks as if one of the cases in which you can get free prescriptions is if you have "a continuing physical disability which means you cannot go out without the help of somebody else". HTH.

Good to hear so much good news

Mar Are you feeling any better, pet? I've been in the same situation recently, but have had a blood test and my blood is in great shape apparently. That's excellent news of course, but would like to have good blood and not be so tired *rolls eyes* I think it must be "just" the M.E., as I'm not sleepy really, but physically tired. I'm back on the kelp and I think that's helping again.

mardatha

LOL ivyleaf, people with ME must be the healthiest on the planet if you go by blood tests eh? I've been a bit flat but seem to always go that way in summer, last few colder days were bit better. Have to start back on the kelp - it stopped working so I was giving it a rest.
Monnagran I agree totally re modern life - and actually wonder if that's one of the causes of ME. Rushing around like headless chickens for years does come back and bite you later on. I had an old shepherd next door neighbour for years and he used to laugh at me and think I was daft for rushing about. He's say "aye you young wimmen think you've got it better. Lookat you, running to school, running to work, running round the shops, running back to make the dinner. My mum stayed in the house, the shops came to her. The butchers van, the baker, the grocer, they all came to the door. She had one day for the washing and one day for the baking, and she had her wee garden with the veg. She knitted all our socks and jumpers, and there was 9 of us".
That stuck in my mind forever lol and I thought my god he's right! That does seem far more sensible!
:rotfl::rotfl:

savingqueen

Morning everyone

Glad you are all having a great meetup Stilty - enjoy your wine tonight. My eldest is mad about fast rides despite being a generally cautious and sensible lad.

Tallu - not much to add about sleep tips except that a few drops of lavender oil on my pillow seem to help.... if not the smell is nice so nothing lost. Or a few drops in a bath. If you have trouble actually waking up, use more than one alarm clock set at short intervals. I can remember putting a clock in a saucepan for extra noise but it must have been a windup one - wouldn't work with battery or mains clocks!

I want to strip the beds and get the bedding in the machine and out of the line before I hit the shops to get some school uniform. I am only buying DS10 stuff in a bigger size where needed, not buying any new just because its a new school year. To me that's madness. The school bags, pe bags etc need to be repaired again, no need to buy new and boys like their old ones anyway, a bit of a comfort thing I think.

Anyway I can't strip all the beds because DH is still in ours. I haven't the heart to wake him, he might have had a bad night. I think I will just get out as soon as he is up and leave the beds til later.

Talking of beds, your poor OH ginny falling out of his again. He must be black and blue.

Kez- I like your comment about the quirkiness of being odd - I am the same Who wants to be a carbon copy of someone else?

Jazee - glad things are better for you. Brilliant news re the jobs well done. Yipee!


Hope you feel more rested today Pooky.

3000 things to do and I am sitting here yawning. Have a good day everyone

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I'm having an hour off!!! I slept really intermittently last night, it was too hot, it was very noisy with the wind blowing outside and the local fox population were having a choral session for a long time in the wee small hours of this morning so I'm out of oomph at the moment. The house smells wonderful though as I'm having a trial run of a wartime christmas cake recipe with a view to making one for christmas this year, only 1 lb of dried mixed fruit but it looks like a nice substantial cake and according to the book will keep for 2 months, not that it's going to get the chance this time round. Washing is out on the line and housework done, He Who Knows and the Lurcha are out for a walky and Moi is going to take a restorative nap in the hope of being awake past 7.30 this evening!!!

I was going to take a nap!!! one of the neighbours is sawing with an electric saw in the back garden however, but I can't be cross as she's just offered me the cut up decking they're taking down!!!

nursemaggie

Well I am back from town and soaked to the skin again. Does it ever stop raining in this place.

Got a few bargains in HB and Pound****cher and I am sitting with a cup off coffee I did not have to boil the kettle for, thanks to MrsLW and the flask.

Sorry you did not get a nap Mrs LW. If I wanted one I would have had it too, there's a drill going next door, the car alarm across the road that was going when I went out as Mrs LW went for he nap is still going and the bay window is leaking drip drip drip into bucket.

All my clothes are in the wash but I have on, a pair of nice new warm snugly socks and my Aran cardigan. It is surprising how cold you get even in summer when you get a soaking. I am sewing up my second had for a Christmas present and about to start on my third scarf.