Monthly Archives: April 2018

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Whilst all sorts of people ‘ pretend ‘ to be disabled, this is happening.

A Post on thé Paralysis Group that I belong to –

 

April 2 at 12:10pm
So it’s finally happened.
I got my letter through on Thursday that my Disability Living Allowance  is about to end and I have to apply for the new Personal Independence Payment ( PIP )
Now, I’m a T4 paraplegic of 16 years, below left knee amputee of 16 years, below right knee amputee of 1 year and insulin dependent Diabetic of 46 years (not as important I know). I’m forever on bed rest with sores and shearing to my buttocks and so although I know I have nothing to hide I am absolutely bricking it after reading all the horror stories.
What makes it worse is that my DLA finishes on the 19th of this month and my wife and I are finally getting a 2 week holiday starting on the 16th. We’re only going to Northern ireland but we’ve waited 2 years for this.
Anyone got any advice? I haven’t even made the phone call yet because of it being Easter weekend.

Family time :)

Today was a good day. I got to be with family at Easter.

Admittedly not my own relations, but the next best thing – with Ashley and one of her boys. We went by Tube to the South Bank and the Tate Modern, seeing the latest array of largely nonsensical piles of  stuff, with pretentious titles and descriptions… most of it seeming to have some tenuous link with erotica … tho not if you are remotely sexually normal.

My favourite installation was the thing in the picture – called ‘ wheelchair steering mechanism with clock and bag, with balanced plastic cup‘  ( Artist unnamed )

It demonstrates the fragility of life by the possibility that the plastic cup could at any point fall off, once the wheelchair starts going along… and then end up being run over by the wheelchair wheels, themselves symbolic of a previous misadventure…..

Makes you think, right……?

Aka I just made up that just now, like all the rest of the bollocks on display.

But we did have a laugh, so job done ✅

Thanks to Ashley and Otis for taking me out!

Xxx