It was actually somebody else that was on DLA and they says to me they thought I should apply, “I said don't be so silly, I don't qualify for anything, never have”, and she went “I think you should”. So, that's when they told me to go and see the...
So I explained to the welfare rights officer, the position and how things were and how things were in the house and how my husband had to help me with certain things and it was quite embarrassing to actually have to sit down and talk to somebody about it and then having to write it down and then having a doctor coming to the house and have a look at you, and go through all your... “Can you bath yourself can you do this”, its quite, its really quite personal questions they ask.
It's a hard thing to do, but you should resolve yourself and say “Right if they say no that's fine”, but I'm going to have a good shot at it. And it was a case of this doctor came out and he couldn't have been nicer. I was expecting this big dragon coming in the door and saying “You're a malingerer get back to work” or whatever.
But this doctor was very, very nice and he explained every thing before he done it and he asked me to do certain things and I did do some of them but then on other ones I went “There's no way”, because if I had done what he asked me to do, they would have to get paramedics to get me back up off the floor, because there was no way I could get up myself, so it was just a case of you do what you have to do.
I mean you do what you can but you don't, you don't do things you know you can't do, because at the end of it you're not going to, your not doing anybody any good. But this gentleman was very nice and he explain..., as I say he explained everything. And lucky enough first time I tried I got the DLA which made a big difference.
So it means that I can go and get like vitamin tablets, I can go to homeopathy, I can do this and I can pay, you know it's a case of if you've got the money you can also try alternative therapies. |
