Rik Thornton

🔥 PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT MOTABILITY, SINCE SOME OF YOU ARE COMMITTED TO BEING LOUD AND WRONG 🔥 The ignorance about Motability could power the national grid.
Some of you are out here spewing BS. 💥 No, disabled people do NOT get “free cars.” 
You don’t wake up one morning, sneeze, and materialise a shiny SUV from the government fairy. You exchange your Higher Rate Mobility or Enhanced PIP mobility entitlement - and that payment goes directly to Motability. It’s a lease, not a gift. 💥 No, you cannot just pick a “luxury car.” 
You don’t stroll into a dealership and order a BMW for fun. You get a short list of sensible, usually basic models. And if you want anything even remotely bigger, you pay thousands in an upfront “Advance Payment.” From your own pocket. Disabled people are literally paying extra for the crime of needing space for mobility aids or adaptations. 💥 Insurance? Servicing? Repairs? 
Included - because it’s a lease. Not a magical perk. Just a standard part of the deal. And god forbid someone bumps into a Motability car the way some people act, you’d think the disabled driver was committing murder. 💥 Reality check: 
Most disabled people only choose Motability because buying and maintaining a car is financially impossible when your disability already bleeds your wallet dry.
This scheme is a lifeline - not a jackpot. 
It gives people independence, work access, medical access, the ability to have a damn life. 🧨 So before you start raging about “free cars” and “scroungers,” try this: learn how the system actually works. 
Disabled people aren’t living the high life. They’re just trying to exist. And if that offends you? 
🚗💨 Touch grass. Preferably far away from Motability cars.

@moon_katt @Valeria_Watt He's a handsome fellow. Love goldies.

So excited to invite the UK occupational therapy community to co-create the @ElizabethCasso1 Fellowship project - EACHOT bit.ly/EACHOT . Please share this invitation across your networks TY @D_MARSDEN_OT @BeverleyHarden @musedNeuroOT @anyadei @MariaTrotman4 @otsamantha

@ueait Saviours of my sanity, you are! Thanks for the help this morning. Be well :)

So i took Sal into @OT_UEA for our last day before #4 placement today. She had a full day of stairs, socialising, and a bimble around the lake. This, is the end result...

@Dempster2000 Excellent, thank you :)

@rikthornton Magdalen Street!

There’s an antiques emporium in Norwich of such unfathomable strangeness every visit produces fresh gasps of bewilderment and terror. Today’s finds: 1. Mounted photo print of depressed steam train driver (£1)

@dean_prow Such a cool photo, Dean. Brilliantly captured :)

Urban fox, Aberdeen. Taken on iPhone 11

@NoShirt_Man @essexoldbird @mjv__1 2nd year of Occupational Therapy degree, having done a year of Therapeutic Radiography and Oncology. I'll come out next year owing 80K. I turn 50 next month.

My grandpa who is 85 started making this rock map of Scotland in 1992.He collected rocks during amateur geology trips over 30 years. He says it had to be geologically correct and also aesthetically pleasing.He asked if I could share online as He wants to go viral so please share

@BrennanSurgeon The thing that really got me about this at the time, and still does, was that they could've made a visual inspection via spacewalk and acted accordingly depending on the damage found. They were not given the opportunity and that decision cost 7 lives.

Colombia was lost on re-entry in 2003 killing all 7 astronauts Cause of disaster & NASA culture was on BBC2 documentary last night Incidents with foam on previous flights had been accepted as normal ‘Normalisation of deviance’ occurs in many sectors including healthcare

@ajhowes70 @GiaMMacool @David_ukan This whole thread copped me directly in the feels. Lost Dad Nov '21, Mum last summer. I feel orphaned, and it sucks ... miss them both terribly.

@GiaMMacool @David_ukan I’m 53 and Dad has been dead for just over 2 years. This post brings home how much I miss him and his quiet unassuming knowledge

5 years old - Dad knows everything! 7 years old - Dad knows. 10 years old - Maybe dad doesn’t know?! 12 years old - Dad doesn’t know. 14 years old - Dads gone crazy! 16 years old - Can’t take dad seriously. 18 years old - What does dad know?! 22 years old - Dads talking rubbish! 24 years old - I know more than dad! 26 years old - Dad seems to know some things after all. 30 years old - Think I should ask dad about this?! 40 years old - It’s amazing how dad went through all this! 45 years old - Dads been right all along. 50 years old - If dad was here, I could have learned a lot.

I love this, although the part of my brain that has apparently been wired by Stephen King is imagining it enveloping the sitter, and digesting them slowly over a few days.

@AskNationwide Its lovely to see. Small changes like this can have a huge impact on the activities of daily living for customers. Keep up the good work 💚

@rikthornton Morning Rik thanks for getting in touch and we do hope these small changes can certainly help our customers a little bit more. Jo

Part of the journey into becoming an Occupational Therapist, I've found, is you begin to notice stuff. Like this, spotted at my local @AskNationwide branch. Its a hook, for one to hang walking aids whilst at the counter. Genius. 💚

@BrennanSurgeon Seems to have come around quick...wondered why my palms were itching night before last...

Woke up early this morning and greeted by this amazing full moon.

@AnnieBruton @inspirebreath @TheACPRC We fouched it in therapeutic radiography, more from anatomical aspect, in Ca Lung module. Then much more in depth in the 1st year HS module with OT and PT - really interesting stuff :)

@rikthornton @inspirebreath @TheACPRC Respiratory physiology has fascinated me ever since I was a physio student - still does even though I am now retired!

Respiratory physios have a strange affinity with mucus. I know colleagues who will find this fascinating - as indeed do I. @TheACPRC

@ajhowes70 Would be a piece of chalk, surely? ;)

Although just realised that won’t work as it needs to be stuffed, so apparently I am obliged to place a marble in Hartmans pouch!

I am currently crocheting Mr H a gall bladder (as you do!) - he has insisted it needs stones even though he won’t be able to see them, so I will have to use some of the surplus pearls from QEI!