Thursday 7 April 2011

I hope MPs NEVER take a day off sick...

Dear Government,

SICK and Disabled. CHRONICALLY ILL. SICK, SICK, SICK, Long term variable, disabled, LONG TERM VARIABLE, disabled, SICK, CHRONICALLY ILL, SICK and Disabled. CHRONICALLY ILL. SICK, SICK, SICK, Long term variable, disabled, LONG TERM VARIABLE, disabled, SICK, CHRONICALLY ILL, SICK and Disabled. CHRONICALLY ILL. SICK, SICK, SICK, Long term variable, disabled, LONG TERM VARIABLE, disabled, SICK, CHRONICALLY ILL, SICK and Disabled. CHRONICALLY ILL. SICK, SICK, SICK, Long term variable, disabled, LONG TERM VARIABLE, disabled, SICK, CHRONICALLY ILL, SICK and Disabled. CHRONICALLY ILL. SICK, SICK, SICK, Long term variable, disabled, LONG TERM VARIABLE, disabled, SICK, CHRONICALLY ILL, SICK and Disabled. CHRONICALLY ILL. SICK, SICK, SICK, Long term variable, disabled, LONG TERM VARIABLE, disabled, SICK, CHRONICALLY ILL.

Did you know there are conditions other than cancer that last for more than a year? That make you unable to work? That crush lives and ruin families and destroy hopes and dreams, that end the life you thought you would have? That guarantee daily pain or horrible indignity? That chain you within four walls or take away your hobbies and friends?

As far as I can see, both the coalition AND Labour have absolutely no idea that there are any long term illnesses in the UK at all. According to them there might be a few people who have to use a wheelchair or are blind, but that's about it.

It seems clearer and clearer that our politicians are unaware of kidneys or hearts or bowels or lungs or blood or bones or minds.

Makes sense really. They clearly have no souls.

10 comments:

  1. As someone diagnosed with schizophrenia, I would love to have my condition magically disappear after 1 year. In fact I've been seriously ill now for 9 years. Ive had the odd good day but job application processes take longer than the two or three days I'm well enough to actually work.

    I fully support you and your site and what you are trying to do to get the message out there. Well done!

    Ah well, I haven't been homeless yet and I guess I should start to play stereotype bingo and collect the set of stigmas.

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  2. Great comment, thank you.

    Especially liked "guess I should start to play stereotype bingo and collect the set of stigmas."

    I've had enough of this it's just silly, Kafka-eque, sinister.

    Just google "1930s Means Test" It made me go cold.

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  3. Don't forget 'brains' on that list as well...

    It's a bloody disgrace, absolutely

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  4. It seems to me as if you just want to go on at the Conservatives? I fully see what you are saying, but its wrong to blame a certain number of people. 'Toryspotting' seems to say it all.

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  5. More substantively...

    I have narcolepsy. This never gets better. Barring new treatments being invented, it never gets better treated once you reach an initial effective point, either. It just gets worse, unless you're very lucky.

    That's not enough to make me really messed up, of course. I also suffer from depression. I suppose that might get better, one day, but I can't actually remember not being depressed, been on several different ADs (last change necessitated by serotonin toxicity, albeit mild), in therapy (and I feel lucky to be getting that, even if it isn't working great and I'm worrying about my allotted period ending), was in hospital when I was 16...

    But there's more! I have to frequently apply emollients to many bits of skin all day, to prevent worsening of my eczema. I have to avoid situations that post higher risk of infection because of the immuno-suppressants I'm on for the eczema, too. Put all these together, they're responsible for most of the tablets I take in one day...

    Of course, then we bring in the horror of being undiagnosed. I was undiagnosed for about 18 months after going to my GP about the symptoms of what turned out to be narcolepsy; now I've been having consistently present (but varying severity) balance problems (vertigo and imbalance) for over 7 months, and for over 3 months muscle pains and twitches in my legs (and elsewhere, but mostly legs) and a weird visual disturbance (always present, variable severity). Brain fog episodes and fatigue since the balance thing started, too. No explanation for any of it. One consultant down, who knows how many to go.

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  6. Anonymous, for this criticism, it can be levelled at pretty much every MP, all parties.

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  7. "It seems to me as if you just want to go on at the Conservatives?"

    It seems to ME that you haven't read the many posts where I go on at Labour, but point taken. Maybe I should get rid of the Toryspotting poster.

    It made me laugh a lot, but I see it could alienate lots of the people I want to get through too.

    Thanks

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  8. Hi Sue,

    Facebook won't let me share this. Apparently it has been reported as spam or abusive!!!

    Nemonie

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  9. I have MS... progressive degenerative and incurable, ie its not going to go away anytime soon unless they come up with a cure.

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  10. I strongly suspect that right-wingers believe that the gene pool would be "cleansed and strengthened" by the removal of the "defective" ill and disabled judging by some of the heartless things I've seen them say online.

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