[guide.chat] In Reply To: [guide.chat] Direct payment
- From: "Sarah Mellor" <sarah_mellor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Carol O'Connor" <missbossyboots33@xxxxxxxxx>, "guide Chat List" <guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 23:22:55 +0100
Hi Carol.
Thanks so much for this and I'm glad you brought the subject up to start with
when you were advising Malcolm as I don't like askign people things that might
be personal so I'm glad you didn't mind telling me. If I can have 15 hours I
will and now we'e entitled to high rate mobility DLA it will be a great help
especially now we're all being told we have to pay towards our care or getting
it taken from us which is just awful. This government has a lot to answer to
and I went as far as to say to our local MP that if they don't do something
about it they will have to cover our fees for mental health treatments because
of how this is affecting us as we need to be able to get out and live our lives
as much as we can. Julia sounds lovely and it sounds like she does a lot bless
her. OH I was annoyed a year abgo as well social services are old interfeering
busy bodies I awanted to go to a druid camp and it was in a place which was
really hard to get to on public transport plus as I was taking my own bedding
matress etc it would have ben a nightmare and the carer dropped me off as there
were people I know going who said they would help me and the stupid beep of a
care manager or should I say uncare manager said they're job isn't to drop me
off places but for goodnes sake if I get a direct payment I'm paying them to do
whatever I ask them to do to make my life easier. They shouldn't have stupid
rules like that because I know best what I nee and they don't have a clue
because they're not us. if they could try living inside our bodies for once
then they might actually listen. Any-way I'm getting off my soaps box now
becuase the situation is making Gordon use all the words he can think of under
the son and I'd better go and stop him throwing a fryin-pan across the kitchen.
He just gets protective of me which is so lovely.
Well take care.
Love Sarah xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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