Hello there,I have shoddy circulation in both lower legs and consequently my feet always feel cold.Socks,booties,in fact anything touching my feet causes more neuropathic pain in them.This makes keeping them warm a problem.......BUT, there is an invention which helps with the problem.The hair drier.
I have three dotted around my flat and I use them to try and keep my trotters warm.There's one by the bed, so I pre-heat my boots before I venture forth,use it to warm the bed up and even dry some of the exciting but less accessible parts of my knackered likkle body.
Just an idea which may help you if you have cold tootsies
Be lucky,
Wb
Most of us living with multiple sclerosis (MS) feel pretty bad at least some of the time.
Many of us would actually say that we spend large portions of our days feeling downright horrible. For some of us, our
Hi all, I thought I'd share this with you.
Going back several months, you may remember me mentioning that I'd had a visit from SS, who were arranging for the experts to visit, concerning adapting my bungalow for electric wheelchair access.
Following several visits, it was decided that the only way to achieve this, was rebuilding the conservatory and replacing existing doors. Obviously the cost of this was going to be way above the contents of my piggy bank and they came round again this week to help me fill in the grant application form.
Nobody, especially me, had any idea of what the outcome would be of my application, and I still don't. Perhaps I should wait to find out before going on too much, but I just couldn't believe the lunacy behind the forms.
There were pages and pages of it, and included all benefits and income that I have coming in - fair enough, that's what I expected. Any savings were also recorded and that was about it. What about the outgoings? I asked. They don't ask about any of that I was told :no:
Here we have an in depth prying form of means-test, where no part of it takes into account your expenses or money owed. I wouldn't expect it to include repayments on ordinary credit loans, but to not even include mortgage payments is crazy. We have previously had alterations made to the garden, to give me ramps around the place, refitted the bathroom to give me easy access and changed car to enable Cathy to lift my wheelchair in more easily. We had no help with any of that, and as an outcome, have loans to repay of 31K.
How on earth can they decide what anyone can afford without taking these things into account? I'll stop going on now, at least until I hear the result.
Hi All, not sure if this is the right place to post this but....
The Warm Front man has just been and I'm eligible for loft insulation and cavity wall insulation all FREE OF CHARGE He also gave me some tips on energy efficiency and two free low energy bulbs. I'm so pleased actually, am entitled to something!! So all of you if you are in receipt of DLA go on apply and see what you might get.
I'm just so pleased this house is like an ice box most of the time but hopefully within 6-8 weeks time I'll be much warmer.
Best wishes to all and keep warm
Peta
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