@MikScarlet Holy moly mike 🤗 I use a folding car boot type office chair with a battery thing and it's a very poor compromise to my NHS tank that doesn't really fit my life sending love
After discovering that my venture out into nature broke my Batec, I am now in agony as fighting my way over gravel has caused me to pull my right hip out of its socket, making it tear the nerves to my right leg. Cue days of pain. Stuck in my flat during a heat wave. Argh.
When a builder you've never met before can understand your safety and mobility needs at a glance better than people who have known you for decades... You know your dis plaining yourself is done
@MikScarlet Truth and of course they stand in front of you dancing .it's a crotch and bum mosh pit and god knows how you get to the ♿ loo so don't drink ...oh you can't get to the bar doh
Rubbish xx why I go to seated venues when I can actually get ♿ and the companion ticket I need boo !
Sod the pain, I'm out at a gig. Do you remember when the "disabled area" was for wheelchair users? I'm stuck outside the area because it's packed with people who are happily running off to the bar. Hmmm? Not playing cripple top trumps but I kinda think I should be able to get in
@MikScarlet I hear you and agree but we really need to address the ancient medicines used modern ones off label side effects e making it almost impossible to function in any productive way
And then we are forced to account how much we use
It's a pickle 🥒 x
@Nettynoodle3 I did the trial for mindfulness management of pain. It can work but it takes serious concentration. So useless for getting to sleep or living. Another string to the myth of self management. Pills bad but alternative therapies are great. Hmm?
When you try to go out & the pain becomes so all encompassing it's all you can do not to scream. Bugger nerves.
So rather than spend an evening with friends I'm off home because I did start screaming. When I get home I'm leaving a rather insistent message with my pain clinic
@MikScarlet Oh mike that's rubbish you echo the lives of so many and it shouldn't be so in 2026
Clinical solutions are still based on battle field science or think it pink ideology that isn't realistic
It bludy
Stinks x
Disability is still judged by how it comes about — as if that decides its value.
It doesn’t.
What needs judging is how society applauds people for enduring things that shouldn’t exist in the first place.
We live and love life.
The hardest part about living with a disability isn’t the disability itself.
It’s realizing how invisible accessibility barriers are to people who don’t recognise them as barriers, or don’t experience
@Shrink_at_Large@AnnielizzieSten Like all the rest mayor to pm there’s been no real, consistent push to make disabled lives better — beyond some local transport additions
And while that matters, it’s not enough to fix systemic ableism/prejudice that's the root problem
Imagine waking up daily to the fact that you "cost too much" just to be alive in essence
"No access. No funding."
Sorry
It’s just a polite way of telling us ♿ to feck off elsewhere. And when we can we do
You'd have to be blind deaf and unable to speak to not see and hear
Alarm clock Britain is sick of paying out for Benefits Street.
Why bother working when you can get £30,000 or even £60,000 on benefits - untaxed.
So what's the Government doing about it? Nothing.
People can now get the equivalent of a £71,000 salary on benefits.
Working people on £30,000 or £40,000 are asking themselves, why do I bother working so hard?
This is not sustainable.
The bruise coming up on my right arm after my fall is a doozy. My entire bicep is going black & blue. It's huge. What on earth did I do? Looks like I've been punched by Kong.