A woman with severe disabilities is being told she no longer meets the criteria to keep her electric wheelchair.
Hove resident Belinda Formosa received the shock news in a letter from the Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust which said that, following a review of her medical history, she is no longer eligible for the vehicle.
It's a miracle! Or, more likely, her previous assessments erred on the generous side.
The letter said that “in our consultant’s opinion based on the medical evidence they have available, it should be possible for you to both walk and self-propel a manual chair”.
But despite news that anyone else would be thrilled to hear (Good news, you're not as disabled as you thought!), Belinda is not happy:
But Belinda said that because of several medical conditions, including spinal stenosis, cirrhosis of the liver, a pancreatic divisum, Dupuytren’s disease and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), she would be unable to do so.
She said: “I don’t like using the word disabled, I prefer to use the word adaptable instead.”
You don't seem to be adapting very well, though, do you?
Whilst I am generally in agreement with the vast majority of your posts - especially regarding those who choose benefits payments as a career path - there is a tendency amongst certain levels of officialdom to make arbitrary decisions on peoples' health and capabilities which defy rational explanation and fly in the face of common sense. These self-same jobsworths are happy to squander huge sums on gender re-assignment instructions for 7yr-olds and other forms of SJW virtue signalling without a thought to the cost or consequences, probably having been instructed to do so by their Common Purpose 'mentors'.
ReplyDeleteThere are cases being reported too frequently where some bureaucratic moron has issued a decree that someone obviously incapable can, nevertheless, run a marathon and scale the north face of the Eiger.
I lost two friends to COPD these last two years and it's not a nice way to go, it really fucks you up.
ReplyDelete".. there is a tendency amongst certain levels of officialdom to make arbitrary decisions on peoples' health and capabilities ..."
ReplyDeleteOh, undoubtedly. Best not to put oneself into their hands, if one can avoid it.
"...and it's not a nice way to go, it really fucks you up."
It contributed to the death of my father.