DisabledAceSocialist [comrade/them]

@ DisabledAceSocialist @hexbear.net

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Partially sighted stroke and cancer patient, fighting a disability benefit appeal. Can't afford to buy food, if anyone's able to help please send a supermarket gift card to DisabledAceSocialist@hotmail.com
https://www.sainsburysgiftcard.co.uk/
https://www.bitrefill.com/gb/en/gift-cards/sainsburys-in-store-digital-uk/

2h ago

UK 'rapidly developing' plans to prepare for war - and civilians will play their part
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DisabledAceSocialist [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 2h ago
I don't mind being nuked as long as it's instant.

DisabledAceSocialist [comrade/them] @hexbear.net

4h ago

UK 'rapidly developing' plans to prepare for war - and civilians will play their part

www.msn.com /en-gb/news/uknews/uk-rapidly-developing-plans-to-prepare-for-war-and-civilians-will-play-their-part/ar-AA1SdaCG

7h ago

This system is doing its best to kill my partner

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DisabledAceSocialist [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 7h ago

They'll never do this. The government feeds all of the news stories about how benefit claimants have it too good because they want people to hate us and turn against benefits, so they can cut them without backlash. That's why, despite most benefit claimants struggling on a pittance, there are always news stories about the very few who are doing well on benefits, making out it's like that for everyone. Just the other day there was a woman bragging in a news article that she's a benefit claimant and that she's going to get an extra 5K or something a year, and now angry people are writing articles about how this show people on benefits get too much and it needs to be stopped.

I knew my prescriptions finally being sorted by the doctor was too good to be true. There's already a problem with it. The pharmacy doesn't have the type of thyroxine I take in stock and doesn't know when they can get it - not an issue with paper prescriptions as I can take the prescription to a different chemist. But with the new dispensing system the doctor set up there are no paper prescriptions and you can't take it to a different chemist, only to the GP chemist. So I can't get my thyroxine (which I will die without - I don't mind dying but it will be a very unpleasant way to go.) So I asked the GP receptionist if I can just go back to the usual way and she's so confused by my request she doesn't know what to do and clearly doesn't care. I honestly think that to get a job as a GP receptionist you must have an IQ of less than zero and be more evil than Hitler. I asked for an appointment with the GP to get it changed back but there were no appointments left so now I'm back to having to go there at 8.30 in the morning and queue up to get on the triage list, and if the appointments run out by the time I get to the front of the queue I'll have to do this every day until I finally get an appointment. This nonsense just never ends.

I also tried to get an appointment with the podiatrist about my Achilles tendon since the physiotherapist can't see me until 12th Jan, but the podiatrist can't see me until 19th Jan. I'm so tired of how difficult it is to access basic medical care.

Only one thing has improved my mood. I found an official letter addressed to me, on the dining room table where my landlady leaves my post when it arrives. It apparently arrived a few days ago but I only just found it. Since it looked official I was worried it might be something stressful to deal with like the DWP or NHS. But I found it was a lovely xmas gift - a Sainsburys gift card. Someone from here who I'd given my address to previously must have sent it to me. I don't know who, but whoever it was: thank you! So at least one nice thing happened.