What A Difference A Day Can Make...
Yesterday, was a good day and I felt more like I used to...
Today, I feel down and am off my food. I am managing still to have hot drinks...perhaps I'll have a Complan seeing I still have quite a few that Mum never used. Or one of those milk shakes with the vitamins and minerals. I may have glass of milk anyhow. And a banana is supposed to be good for building up energy.
There is still plenty of time to make a meal even if its good old scrambled egg.
I'm not feeling sorry for myself, just accepting this is how it will be as I walk down this road, there are no right or wrong ways to deal with such a journey.
Today, I feel down and am off my food. I am managing still to have hot drinks...perhaps I'll have a Complan seeing I still have quite a few that Mum never used. Or one of those milk shakes with the vitamins and minerals. I may have glass of milk anyhow. And a banana is supposed to be good for building up energy.
There is still plenty of time to make a meal even if its good old scrambled egg.
I'm not feeling sorry for myself, just accepting this is how it will be as I walk down this road, there are no right or wrong ways to deal with such a journey.
posted by The Great Gildersleeve | 3:27 pm
16 Comments:
You see, I think this is why you need a mobility scooter, just to get you out of the house for an hour, so you don't get too introspective.
Guess what, someone in a similar situation(this is from someone who works/worked for the DWP)and they bought a mobility scooter and it was seen as getting rid of capital and there was all kinds of trouble that followed.
Again, what does it cost to charge a scooter?
I'm feeling ok again...and plan to have a meal or snack later. I've just had fruit and milk.
I hope to have a look out tomorrow...get those flowers and some odds and ends...a bit more tidying up that will keep me busy.
Friday they service the Gas Central Heating, Sunday Mum's Church Service, Tuesday the CAB...
The weather is dull and nasty but I don;t feel too cold, can't decide if that's my faulty internal temperature making me feel hot or whether it is not so cold...
Re the scooter...... If you bought a secondhand one, that would be seen as saving money.
The cost of a new one is in the thousands. You can get a secondhand one for around £200.
If you feel that a scooter is what you need, then you shouldn't let the DWP put you off getting one. It would change your life.
We'll see, it's so easy to put your foot in it these days, if they think you can walk around a garden they will try and compare it to walking down a road. Even preparing a meal(you have to eat)you could say the wrong thing. Luckily most items I buy are sliced or you just put it in a microwave.
If you ever admit to preparing fresh veg you'll certainly be in trouble(I use frozen)or if fresh all prepared.
I'm away to have a cup a soup and a sandwich(Tomato, cheese, lettuce and cooked ham)might put some chutney on it...
Gildy, I'm sorry, but I think you're making excuses for not getting out & doing things. Why don't you ask the DWP if they would consider a second hand scooter getting rid of capital ? This isn't the road you've GOT to travel down, you've got choices . Get yourself a 2nd hand scooter & try & get out more, even do voluntary work for a couple of hours a week. You can't spend the next 20 years sitting in your house waiting to die !!
I won't do that...also when officially retired(if you can afford to retire)I may be able to thumb my nose at authority more :-)
I had a lovely sandwich and made my own weak apple and blackcurrent squash diluted with fizzy water, it was very nice too.
So how long is it til you retire ? You can't spend the next few years living like this .
I'm doing fine...and do you think the authorities will leave me and many others to have a stress free life?
No way!
I will soon be jumping through more and more hoops to satisfy people who have no idea what they are doing, the private firm this Government uses has a very bad reputation(even staff who work for them have left when they could)or criticised it but had to do so using false names...
It is an international company and usually its answer of any criticism is not to respond or close down anywhere they see any...The media largely ignores some worrying examples that should be highlighted...they tend to work hand in glove with politicians(so we have more to worry about than the Leverson Enquiry which is mainly about newspapers, the broadcasters are more of a problem these days...
Mind newspapers like the Mail don't help address the situation and if read often enough the drip, drip, drip of what they say is taken as fact by many readers or those who phone in to radio phone-ins and so it goes on...
Outraged from Tumbridge Wells etc...I nearly said I wonder why they get the wrong impression but I've answered that earlier, its a lack of balanced information, slanted stories(always looking for the bad stories)that put those who need help in a bad light and the spin...
The reading the PM did at the Queen's Thanksgiving Service was ironic and I loved the sermon the Bishop gave warning about where we are going but our PM will just dismiss the criticism.
The politicians are much the same, they may fight and score points off each other in Parliament but the PM was laughing and joking with Ed Milliband and it looked quite an easy conversation...
I don't really like talking about this. unless something happens that means that I have no choice but to do so to but I do know from others I speak to elsewhere and from some who leave comments here they are struggling and have had experiences in their own lives or have seen what happens to their loved one's...and I am not alone.
I have also seen where an extra £10-£20 here or there from a works pension has virtually seen a retired couple lsoe so much help they wish they'd never had the pension in the first place.
You can either spend your life reading gloom ladened articles & hearing depressing stories from people you meet. Or you can bite the bullet, get a 2nd hand mobility scooter & try & make the best of your life . You blog is making very depressing reading nowadays, & every time someone makes a suggestion, you reply with " Yes but" & then give reasons why you're not going to do anything.
I don't think my blog is depressing(It's only 4 weeks since Mum passed away)I am feeling calm and quite positive even if to you I don't do a lot, some of us like pottering around.
I feel that I have turned a corner.
If you feel that way, you know the answer...
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