Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

GDB2222

LydiaJ wrote: »

You'd better start planning ahead for something spectacular to do on your 60th!

Chewie could get married in Venice?

GDB2222

Spirit wrote: »

This from me too

I get the impression that you are starting to feel a bit more positive? It's so like you to think of others.

ukmaggie45

Gosh, just had a phone call from EA to say first viewing of old home is at 12.30 today! :eek:

ukmaggie45

Spirit wrote: »

I did stairs today. Hoping to go home weds. I am caught in an nhs boundary post code lottery for rehab at home and hosp want a bit more assurance before I will be discharged. To minimise long term disability. I can walk about 50 metres.but gait is odd. Arm/ hand has some movement but cannot do anything functional . Speech and reasoning good . Continent( another blessing) mouth a little down so I am in quite good shape and feel very lucky.

Oh I do hope that they can sort out you going home. It's so much nicer to be in your own surroundings. Will you have some help to start with? I guess the occupational therapist will do home visit to see if there's anything that they can provide to make your home easier for you to be in.

lostinrates wrote: »

Do you mind me suggesting what I would do in your situation?

I wish you would! :rotfl: What really did make me a bit cross was that there is a ramp and then a pathway across the front of the surgery building, that you use in wheelchair - there are steps up at the entrance. But there's a gate across the pathway and it was padlocked shut! :mad: So I had to get out of wheelchair and climb 2 steps. What would have happened if I was totally unable to walk? I think OH is going to write a letter of complaint to practice manager. After all if a NHS Health Centre is inaccessible what hope is there? :eek:

Generali

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Oh I do hope that they can sort out you going home. It's so much nicer to be in your own surroundings. Will you have some help to start with? I guess the occupational therapist will do home visit to see if there's anything that they can provide to make your home easier for you to be in.



I wish you would! :rotfl: What really did make me a bit cross was that there is a ramp and then a pathway across the front of the surgery building, that you use in wheelchair - there are steps up at the entrance. But there's a gate across the pathway and it was padlocked shut! :mad: So I had to get out of wheelchair and climb 2 steps. What would have happened if I was totally unable to walk? I think OH is going to write a letter of complaint to practice manager. After all if a NHS Health Centre is inaccessible what hope is there? :eek:

I read a piece a while back about a woman who was due to give a speech about rail accessibility who was a couple of hours late. The reason? The train pulled into the 'wrong' platform at City Thameslink(?) so she couldn't get out of the station so had to get a train 30 mins north where she could change platforms and come back in to the 'right' platform. :j

purch

PasturesNew wrote: »

AND have a pickled gherkin BOTH times!!

.....but not a pickled egg (uurrgghh)

lostinrates

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

I wish you would! :rotfl: What really did make me a bit cross was that there is a ramp and then a pathway across the front of the surgery building, that you use in wheelchair - there are steps up at the entrance. But there's a gate across the pathway and it was padlocked shut! :mad: So I had to get out of wheelchair and climb 2 steps. What would have happened if I was totally unable to walk? I think OH is going to write a letter of complaint to practice manager. After all if a NHS Health Centre is inaccessible what hope is there? :eek:

Ok, I'll send you a pm.....hopefully later today, if not then tomorrow . If not kick me please, hard.


Will start now but have to think hard and we know how difficult I find that

michaels

Generali wrote: »

I read a piece a while back about a woman who was due to give a speech about rail accessibility who was a couple of hours late. The reason? The train pulled into the 'wrong' platform at City Thameslink(?) so she couldn't get out of the station so had to get a train 30 mins north where she could change platforms and come back in to the 'right' platform. :j

AFAIK both platforms at citi thameslink have always had lifts but if one were out of order until the recent refurb at farringdon and the new st pancras thameslink station I suspect you would have had to travel to Luton Airport parkway to find a station with lifts where you could switch to the other line....

I am fed up although I know in comparison with other NP I have nothing to complain about. It remains freezing where I work, it is not a heating issue, it was also freezing last week when it was much hotter outside. Being cold makes me sit and hunch giving me a stiff torso and shoulders which then triggers a stiff neck and tension headache. Oh and all the IT broke at 4 yesterday and although it came back mid morning today it is even slower/flakier than normal which makes getting work done a real chore - want to save a new version of a spreadsheet - that will be 6 attempts and 20 minutes, don't save reguarly and you risk a system acrash and loosing all your work. Even worse last week they extended my contract for another 12 months

silvercar

AFAIK both platforms at citi thameslink have always had lifts but if one were out of order until the recent refurb at farringdon and the new st pancras thameslink station I suspect you would have had to travel to Luton Airport parkway to find a station with lifts where you could switch to the other line....

West Hampstead Thameslink has lifts to all platforms as does Borehamwood & Elstree since last week.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

.... cashmere leggings....

£120 ... that'd more than pay for all the leggings I ever have in my entire lifetime

£2-3/pair, they last 3-5 years round the house.