to be fair i requested a home visit as i couldn't be sure i would be able to get her into the place they do the assessments from - i know some aren't wheelchair accessible .
Oh right. Still doesn't alter the fact that having been fairly assessed, you have to be assessed further just because of the change over of how they're now managing it and hoping to cut costs. I'm guessing in your case your wife's condition is unlikely to improve?
Meant to ask you - but couldn't remember which thread it was on - about your trip to the Aviva. You got to see plenty of players and they did a nice little walk around the stands after the game. How did your mate cope? I was sat here watching the game thinking I wish we could play in Dublin every week. Crowd were terrific
He was well chuffed. TBH the only ticket i could get on the notice was a premium stand ticket down one end. That stadium is nice but hard to get to and get back out of. He was fine mostly, he only had the fistula done the week before and my intent had been he'd have done it well in advance and would have been on the hospital dialysis before we went but the first one failed so they did this big mad connection thing. Thats why he is still on the home dialysis as the "pipes" are not connected yet. The home dialysis has bags of stuff he pumps into himself so they had to be shipped there and he can do this manual procedure to weigh himself before and after and all that stuff. It was tiring on him but he said to me when he was sitting there as the teams came out "you really don't have an option but to be a red do you" so he got the buzz back. there were a lot of kids, about 20 or so bilbao fans near us which was all there was of them..... there was one grown man in the full lfc kit!!! that was freaking odd. there were a LTO of women in and out of the thing all game which was quite annoying leaving there kid as well but i suppose thats premium.... So the crowd were good there were quite a few scousers over which helped with the singing such as it was. not much TBH in game, but they did ok on YNWA. the pen was right down below us, e were in the end block of the second tier then real real premium boxes were above us.... We got in early enough and took a look at the warm ups so he could see the players he missed out on seeing since he's been ill. Karius is pure dirt, he wasn't pushed or couldn't kick any thing straight when helping with keeper warm up. Klavan and gomez were knocking about together pregame. neither could pass it straight Seats were good like... can't complain. Team did ok but i was more worried than anything but he didn't give a hoot about coutinho or that. was made up. I'm hoping that when he finalises this fistula and starts treatment i can get him a couple of games at home. but thats another story...... i've a lot of other stuff to sort out too.
So he wasn't bothered about no Coutinho - unlike you Really nice gesture by you going with him. I don't care what everyone says about you, you have got a heart
I worked in Amazon Customer Service for a while and the worst part was not the angry people blaming us for their parcel not arriving, it was the ****ing chancers claiming they got an empty box, or a box of rocks, or a dead rat. Always a console, phone or computer. We just had to give them their refund and report them but they did go on a list and it was reported to the police. It doesn't bother Jeff Bezos cos Amazon just claim the loss from HMRC but it bothered us cos they thought they'd got one over on us when we knew what they were up to. And it's supplemented by everybody else's taxes, so if you know some **** who got a free console, give them a ****ing slap. I'm sure nobody feels sorry for Amazon anyway, with their moving profits around the EU to avoid tax. And it's corporations, not claimants, who are screwing the system. During the dark days of the Empire (the 80s), Maggie's Stormtroopers would spend far more than was cheated chasing false claims. OK, the law's the law but they spent a pittance on finding people who hadn't claimed the much larger amount of benefits they were entitled to, usually pensioners with heating allowances and stuff.
Not trying to be all gloom, but it's obvious those assessments are just cost-cutting exercises. I have a friend with a degenerative eyesight condition who went through something similar and it was obvious what the game was. They want to reduce any benefit even though the condition is worsening, and the questions are clearly designed to facilitate cuts, rather make a genuine assessment of need. It's a scandal, and tbh, I thought they'd had to rethink it because one of the companies (private, profit-making, of course) was clearly just looking for any way to undermine the claim. Hopefully it will be fairer as a result and you and the Mrs will be ok.
Yeah have a friend (38) who was forced to go to work or college. Has MS...She can be fine One week (although those weeks are getting further apart) and almost bedridden another. It's a tough call. She is glad she went back to college and is attempting to go the self employed route with assistance. Dunno the details to be fair but seems she will be marginally better off. Assuming she can do the minimum hours of course. It's having to do all the research about what she can claim in help and credits etc when shifting from DLA (or whatever it's called now)
DLA is becoming PIP (Personal independence Payment) same benefit different name and amended criteria / scoring i.e. being a permanent wheelchair user entitled you to the highest rate of the mobility component of DLA but under PIP may not as they look at your ability to "self mobilise" though you will still qualify automatically for the middle rate i believe.
@DirtyFrank Your friend needs to keep a diary detailing her physical abilities day by day for at least a couple of weeks if not a month as the fluctuating claims are always a minefield.
Yeah think that's what pretty much happened and why she went to college rather than employment. Will have to ask her in more detail what she did/faced
Not been on much lately. Personal life is pretty hectic at the mo. Looking to leave London and looking to do some courses to go work away on Yachts.
Haven't been on here over summer either but guess there's a match this weekend but tbh I'm kinda done with football
