handsy update

handsy
handsy Member Posts: 209
edited 15. Oct 2009, 05:17 in Living with Arthritis archive
Hi everybody,
well i got some good feedback about my MTX side effects, seems that i am quite unique as i am growing hair and not loosing it. I am off to see my GP today and will mention the saliva spray which would be a great help as I sometimes can not talk because my mouth is so dry.

On the 28th of this month i have my appeal for ESA, I have gathered a vast amount of evidence to support my case. I am left furious at the the press coverage of people who make fraudulent claims and are awarded the benifit. How do they do it, Iam a genuine case and have to go to appeal, strange world we live in.

I have been attending ESA interviews to get back into work, Ken Mordue who is my advisor is really good and we have come to the aggreement of re-training in IT and have found a course that is ideal but i have to wait untill my appeal to see what award i get?

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  • elnafinn
    elnafinn Member Posts: 7,412
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi John

    You are certainly unique. I hope your appointment goes well today.

    It is good to hear that you are getting along with your advisor at the ESA interviews.

    All the best with your appeal.

    Luv
    Elna x
    The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.

    If you can lay down at night knowing in your heart that you made someone's day just a little bit better, you know you had a good day.
  • woodbon
    woodbon Member Posts: 4,969
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi,
    Good luck for the apeal. My Employment Advisor thinks they should give money to more people, then their job would be easier. She wrote down my reasons for not applying and said she would pass them up the line. Sounds like shes involved in some sort of campaign! :shock: She said I should make a claim.

    I hope you'r meds are OK for you, maybe you could make a fortune if you've found the secret to growing back hair. :lol: Good luck for that appointment, anyway. Love Sue
  • mellman01
    mellman01 Member Posts: 5,306
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Hands it’s great you got good info on your meds.
    Hey you tell me how people manage to swing the lead without any problem yet people like ourselves genuine cases get treated as if we are the guilty ones, I have two where I live, the last two council houses on our estate one is right opposite me and the other is to the left hand side, both men don’t work, the guy on the left hasn’t for the last 26 years apparently he has a trapped nerve I his neck and he can’t use his right arm bless him.
    Now call me cynical but he spends all day every day in his shed hammering and drilling god knows what and sometimes he works outside and yep uses both arms with no problem, he use to repair cars on his driveway for cash and all the DHSS did was ask him to please stop!.
    The man opposite broke two ribs 18 months ago while working on a building site and since then has never gone back to work, yet he spends all his spare time gardening and doing DIY, he’s up and down ladders faster than a squirrel up a tree, his young son is a delinquent who vandalises our old BT phone box and swears at passers by and has a season ticket with the local police, they park all over the place and generally like to throw their gardening rubbish in the sub station next to my drive have 3 cars and were moved opposite us as his lad burnt down their last house playing with a lighter one night, I think he is classed as special needs, what that means is his parents let him do whatever he likes and the only special need he needs is a smack on the backside once in a while.
    Right sorry about that I’m now putting me soap box away.
    :lol:
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 29,880
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi John
    So you are special theN! Extra hairs! :shock:
    Hope the appeal goes ok, but you have got a good bloke in that Ken to help you sort out what work you could do in the future.
    Things going in the right direction on the whole i reckon :)
    Take care
    Toni x
  • tkachev
    tkachev Member Posts: 8,332
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    mellman01 wrote:
    Hi Hands it’s great you got good info on your meds.
    Hey you tell me how people manage to swing the lead without any problem yet people like ourselves genuine cases get treated as if we are the guilty ones, I have two where I live, the last two council houses on our estate one is right opposite me and the other is to the left hand side, both men don’t work, the guy on the left hasn’t for the last 26 years apparently he has a trapped nerve I his neck and he can’t use his right arm bless him.
    Now call me cynical but he spends all day every day in his shed hammering and drilling god knows what and sometimes he works outside and yep uses both arms with no problem, he use to repair cars on his driveway for cash and all the DHSS did was ask him to please stop!.
    The man opposite broke two ribs 18 months ago while working on a building site and since then has never gone back to work, yet he spends all his spare time gardening and doing DIY, he’s up and down ladders faster than a squirrel up a tree, his young son is a delinquent who vandalises our old BT phone box and swears at passers by and has a season ticket with the local police, they park all over the place and generally like to throw their gardening rubbish in the sub station next to my drive have 3 cars and were moved opposite us as his lad burnt down their last house playing with a lighter one night, I think he is classed as special needs, what that means is his parents let him do whatever he likes and the only special need he needs is a smack on the backside once in a while.
    Right sorry about that I’m now putting me soap box away.
    :lol:

    Hi I am not having a go at you but I do have a son with special needs.Some people use it as an excuse for bad behaviour and use the term loosley.
    Best wishes Tkachev
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  • tkachev
    tkachev Member Posts: 8,332
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Handsy
    Hope it all goes well on the 28th.It must be hard work dealing with all this when you feel so bad.
    Best wishes
    Tkachev
    Never be bullied into silence.
    Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
    Accept no ones definition of your life

    Define yourself........

    Harvey Fierstein
  • mellman01
    mellman01 Member Posts: 5,306
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    [Hi I am not having a go at you but I do have a son with special needs.Some people use it as an excuse for bad behaviour and use the term loosley.
    Best wishes Tkachev[/quote]

    Yeah sorry about that this little twerp is just a feral trouble maker due to the total lack of parental control, they let him get up almost anything, if he were a genuine case would any sane parent leave him sitting/playing in the car on his own while it’s parked on a slope out front even after he’s already let the had brake off once before, I think not. :roll: