tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post6858782050308380440..comments2024-03-28T09:16:33.241+00:00Comments on Diary of a Benefit Scrounger: It's all in your HeadSue Marshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14849801822216267250noreply@blogger.comBlogger143125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-56544735339053054262016-03-18T09:16:42.553+00:002016-03-18T09:16:42.553+00:00Interesting and valuable Post.
it is helpfull
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I've had...Geez, I'm bawling reading this. <br /><br />I've had undiagnosed issues since I was 14. I'm 24 now. They weren't always as bad as they are now but have progressed over the past about decade. I used to be really intelligent and really sure of my ability to know when something wasn't right with my body. I graduated college and made As in every single class I ever took with the exception of one. I was very driven and had a ton of confidence in myself. However, after having literally dozens of doctors talk down to me like the biggest moron they've ever met and tell me I'm just making all of my symptoms up in my head, I've lost all confidence in my ability to know or do anything. I feel like the biggest idiot ever and am constantly doubting myself in everything I do. I sit in waiting rooms and think to myself, "God, what is wrong with you? Why can't you just stop this attention-seeking, running around to doctors behavior and leave their time to the people who have real medical conditions?" I lay in bed for hours with unexplainable, excruciating head pain thinking, "Why are you so stupid? Why can't you just stop making these headaches up in your mind and get on with life?" I sleep 15 hours straight due to the bone-crushing fatigue I get and then feel like I should get on my hands and knees and beg anyone who called or emailed me while I was asleep to forgive me because it was my fault for sleeping that long and blowing off any responsibilities I had to take care of. I run to the restroom 4 times in a single hour (or sometimes even wet myself) due to my urinary incontinence issues and think it's my fault as if I can just will my bladder to work overtime with my mind.<br /><br />Perhaps the most devastating part of this all is that, once so many doctors have told you it's all in your head, friends and family members begin to believe them. After all, they're the experts. My family members and friends who once believed me and were once understanding if I said I didn't feel well enough to go somewhere are no longer so understanding. They all think I'm a giant headcase. I have nobody left I can rely on for support or just friendship period.<br /><br />I understand that doctors are just human and can't know anything. I don't expect anyone to help me who can't. But do they have to take the extra step and tell me I'm stupid and a complete headcase? Can't they just tell me they don't know without placing the blame for the problem on me? They've ruined me doing that, and I'm only 24 years old. The scariest part is knowing that, if whatever is physically wrong with me doesn't kill me first, I could wind up living with this self-doubt and self-hatred that they've instilled in me for another 70ish years. It's not okay that they've done this to me.<br /><br />Anyway, I'm sorry for the self-pitying comment. I suppose this is my long-winded way of saying thank you for articulating my experiences and feelings better than I ever could. DEWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04973335785128428493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-24429617125377403792013-01-08T10:00:56.734+00:002013-01-08T10:00:56.734+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.We Care Indiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09179701895145578610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-89583765639100016642012-12-29T13:38:07.579+00:002012-12-29T13:38:07.579+00:00In my experience another MAJOR factor thst will cu...In my experience another MAJOR factor thst will cure this Professionals "Disease" is to suffer themselvs. Very GREAT CHANGES OCCUR THEN!!!!!!!aileenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10741924840314619562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-75951623053081049092012-07-25T12:06:52.072+01:002012-07-25T12:06:52.072+01:00I was treated as a hysterical psychiatric patient ...I was treated as a hysterical psychiatric patient who was just a hormonal teenager.<br /><br />I am a survivor of child abuse.<br /><br />I go to see my doctor with a fever, pneumonia, and rage, and since it came back with no bacteria or virus in the bloodwork, it was "all in my head"<br /><br />No science, no ruling out other causes like a genetic condition or parasites, just "all in my head" i'm "somatizing" because i want "attention"<br /><br />I'm fairly sure my rape left me with some kind of std in the spinal column. I lost the ability to walk for about 6 months and am only just getting it back recently.<br /><br />A psych diagnosis should be the LAST resort of a doctor, not something for them to stick to a patient at the first sign of emotional disturbance or illness they dont understand yet.<br /><br />A psych diagnosis stays with you forever, even if its not recorded... you are left with that doubt about your own abilities and it slows every decision you have to make. And once you no longer trust your own judgement nor the doctors, your life becomes an unbearable hell as you come to realise no one trusts you at all including yourself.<br /><br />And then its downhill from there until you find your resolve.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-29741851804992387892012-05-21T02:57:30.527+01:002012-05-21T02:57:30.527+01:00Sue
I've just read your blog for the first ti...Sue<br /><br />I've just read your blog for the first time and you are such an inspiration for those of us who are facing the merry-go-around of chronic pain, DWP red tape and medical "mis" and "un" diagnosis. On the one hand, your story and those of the other bloggers have uplifted my spirits to continue the battle but unfortunately it also highlights the systemic failure of the nhs's treatment of the chronically ill. I applaud the rare jewels of medical staff that some of us have found but unfortunately too many of their colleagues are too overworked, stressed and harassed to give us the insightful and professional treatment we deserve. They too are victims of being ground down under the weight of red-tape. That said the next time an overweight woman presents you with symptoms of extreme pain, please please do not tell her to go to weight watchers - try treating them medically instead of patronising them.<br /><br />Keep up the fight.Calhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12076139544149883898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-66560064750804621922012-05-13T14:23:04.088+01:002012-05-13T14:23:04.088+01:00I'm so sorry, I forgot to write about YOU. I f...I'm so sorry, I forgot to write about YOU. I felt very emotional reading about your latest planned surgery and how much bowel you've got left and your awful symptoms and when I get emotional my brain (with brain injury) works even worse and I lost track of what I was writing and had wanted to say so I'll write it now, I hate being so useless! I had read some of your history and posts before but I can't find (or remember) seeing how it all started for you. I don't know much about your illness, have only read bits over the years, but I think doctors claim it's 'autoimmune' is that right? Since my bungled op I've read and learned so much medical (and legal!) stuff and now my ears prick up whenever I read 'doctors don't know what causes it' or 'caused by immune reaction/autoimmune but doctors don't know why' because very often this is rubbish: immune reactions (as I know you know) are caused by foreign substances/toxins, may be viruses/infections, environmental or pharmaceutical toxins. Now there's a MEGA cover-up (as I'm sure you know) on the adverse effects ('side effects') of pharmaceutical drugs. I have read lots of reports/info about various medical drugs causing 'autoimmune' (they say) when it is the drugs that caused it (and pesticdes etc. = neurotoxins) but doctors, colluding with harmaceuticals bury the known cause(s) and lie and say 'oh we don't know what caused this (auto)immune reaction. My question is this: do you think you were exposed to pharmaceutical toxins before your illness/disease, can you think, do you have a feeling about what started it all (and NO, not 'stress' as they like to pretend)? In other words, were you prescribed drugs of any kind, had any ops, vaccinations and so on before you got ill? I would be very interested to hear what yu think started it all. Also with all the ops you've had since you've been exposed to yet more toxins (and maybe infections?) to add to all your poor body's dealing with and can't even get all the nutrients from you food - I think? I truly feel for you and I admire your strength and humour. I too am a 'benefit scrounger': but the doctors wrote lies to the DWP (and Council) that I had nothing physically wrong and it was 'all in her mind' nonsense so I wasn't put on correct benefits and back then the DWP's medical assessment of me was a real farce, won't go into it now, I did a subject access request under the Data Protection Act for all DWP data on me and so much is 'missing' including this medical report. Do you think you've always had the best healthcare and good doctors? Do you think there might have been other (perhaps more appropriate) tests and treatment early on which might have meant you would not be in such a dire position now, in other words any negligence? I wish you all the very best and look forward to hearing more of your story and your fight.Jennynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-1162222499809270652012-05-12T22:27:48.274+01:002012-05-12T22:27:48.274+01:00Hello Sue,
I love your blog. Regarding 'imagin...Hello Sue,<br />I love your blog. Regarding 'imagining' symptoms, listen to this: I was badly injured during a bungled appendix op in 2005, I woke up with brain and widespread neurological damage including double vision, the inside of my throat destroyed and the cartilage at the front broken (I could hardly swallow and it made a loud click and slushy noises - easy to hear), badly injured cervical spine and more. The unsupervised anaesthetists who caused these injuries 'diagnosed' a 'mental health problem' supported by the hospital. I kept telling doctors and GPs I was injured but they all refused to refer me for tests and accused me of having 'conspiracy theories' and 'paranoia' and tried hard to get me to go on antidepressants which I refused because interestingly their unwanted effects are similar to the symptoms I had and can cause neurological injury. One GP said, when I was yet again describing my injuries/symptoms and asking for help and he asked what I wanted I said 'I just want the truth' (and remedial care and 'sorry' would have been kind), he said 'there is no truth only points of view, I cannot verify your point of view' that's why the doctors all refused the tests because they would have easily verified my 'point of view' (knowledge). NHS Neurologist and Rheumatologist wrote reports full of lies and gross fabrications thereby preventing remedy and ECGs done by GPs were written up as normal when they actually showed a heart defect that had appeared after the op. I was sent to counsellors (they had been briefed by hospital that I was a nutter imagining I had injuries) and they subjected me to psychometric tests that did not address my symptoms at all, buried what I said about my physical injuries and wrote to my GP/docs that my symptoms 'could be psychological or could be neurological.' a very long story tens of doctors all backing each other up all saying 'everything normal' when they saw I was injured, systemic lies, denials and betrayal of my trust, longterm neglect and abuse by medical staff and counsellors. Went abroad and managed to get tests done (MRI/CT etc.) that proved I'd been telling the truth all along. Those of us who've been iatrogenically injured (caused by healthcare) are frequently given false mental health 'diagnoses' and are subjected to the extreme cruelty of being told 'it's all in your mind', because then we will be discredited, nobody will believe what we say and the negligent doctors get away with it. Some aren't strong enough or are too badly injured or have no money (or all these) and can't go abroad to get tests like I did and after a while, with no proof that they're telling the truth (evidence) they gradually lose their core of self-belief (doctors can cause this more quickly if they can get the person to take psychiatric drugs) and end up believing the false diagnosis of all the symptoms being 'purely psychological'. Just look at how often neurological injury/disease is 'diagnosed' as a psychiatric problem; memory problems, twitches, muscle loss, swallowing problems, visual symptoms, numb places, cognitive impairments and so on are neurologically caused. How dare doctors say otherwise? And how dare they say so many other illnesses/diseases (e.g. ME/CFS in the UK, compare NICE's recommendations with Canada's) are also 'just in their minds' when the info is out there that proves they are physical? It's political: happy pills costs far less than neurological tests/treatment and longterm care and services. To submit iatrogenically injured people to this cruelty on top of the injuries we have to live with is cruelty to the extreme, it feels like torture: being punished for having been injured in that way, by doctors; not our fault.Jennynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-4281445139268562102012-05-10T14:40:13.898+01:002012-05-10T14:40:13.898+01:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-48510545159366142052012-05-04T22:43:23.016+01:002012-05-04T22:43:23.016+01:00There's another angle on this that I want to a...There's another angle on this that I want to add. There is an old man who is close to me. He is what I think of as 'pre-war stiff upper lip'.<br /><br />Last year, he fell and went to A&E. He didn't call an ambulance, he got a taxi. They took a quick look, took an X-ray of his wrist and sent him home.<br /><br />I saw him the next day and asked to look at his arm. It was very obviously broken and I told him to go back to A&E, but he wouldn't. It took a week to persuade him to see his doctor.<br /><br />His doctor immediately sent out a community team to visit him every day at home, referred him to a mental health team (correctly diagnosing vascular dementia, which not everyone picks up on when the first symptoms are physical, in his case falling over) and got onto the hospital. It took the hospital another week to call him back in.<br /><br />The consultant in A&E made a desultory look at his elbow. I insisted despite her protestations that she should let me take his shirt off, telling her that his humerus was badly broken to the extent that it was bent and the shoulder subluxed. It got quite heated and I had to practically rip his shirt off.<br /><br />She took one look at the shoulder and agreed with me. X-rays showed that it was broken in three places. <br /><br />By then, it was too late to set it correctly and he had to have major surgery. <br /><br />I shan't go into details of his treatment in hospital, but the excellent work of the surgeon was largely undone by other doctors, nurses, physios and OT's who didn't want to make an effort to help a confused old man who didn't want to make a fuss.<br /><br />He now has very little use in that arm. <br /><br />It's bad enough when doctors don't listen to the more forceful, articulate amongst us, but they also have to go a step further and listen to the reserved, the polite, the 'don't want to be a bother, doctor' people.Sunny Cloudsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-34952870264709509602012-04-30T17:56:31.280+01:002012-04-30T17:56:31.280+01:00The responsibility for shortening Dani's life ...The responsibility for shortening Dani's life goes back to 2007.<br /><br />The fact that she has died is not what my complaint is about. I am continuing the questioning that she had started in the couple of months before her death. she wanted them to be open and honest with her so that she could make her arrangements and do the things she wanted to do before she died. She was not given the chance as she died before she was told that she was dying. No one had noticed her wasting muscles or so they said. But a few days after she died I was told by a member of staff that they had been discussing Dani and what was the best course of action to be taken to help her while she was so seriously ill. This member of staff had not realised that they were not to speak to me. Of course now it is denied that the conversation took place.<br /><br />Dani died how she would have wanted, suddenly, quickly and not in hospital. she died in the sunshine. she was a beautiful sunny person; rooms lit up when she entered them. I miss her.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-31993742964811237982012-04-30T16:43:25.539+01:002012-04-30T16:43:25.539+01:00Wow Sue. so Brave of you to blog this. Its true, ...Wow Sue. so Brave of you to blog this. Its true, doctors do not listen, nurses do not listen, do not observe. My daughter aged 26 on dialysis. she had symptoms, her chest was increasing in girth, her blood pressure through the floor, chills and sweats. Doctors and nurses telling me that she would die if she did not start to take care of herself, if she did not abide by the diet and fluid restriction. Somewhere from the depths of almost not being she asked for a heart scan. She had a mass in her heart, she had an infection that had broken out under her breast. She was sent to Papworth, the surgeons gave her only 30% chance of surviving the op. she survived. <br /><br />Less then 4 years later - she started to lose weight, her stomach swelled up so she ended up looking like a 9 month pregnant woman. she was chronically malnourished, we could see all her bones, her breasts disappeared. She could not eat or drink because of the enlarged abdomen. She was waiting for heart valve surgery, her heart had been very badly damaged as a result of the 2007 incident, it was never the same again. She died on 5th September 2011 - They denied that she was that ill - she knew she was dying, but they refused to admit this, just because she was 30 they could not admit what she and we knew. <br /><br />Dani had been diagnosed before her 5th birthday - she knew her body - she knew what was happening within her, Doctors and nurses however think that they know better. Her doctors and nurses at Addenbrookes, were dishonest and negligent, and ultimately responsible for shortening Dani's life.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-78982960719405033432012-04-28T15:38:33.631+01:002012-04-28T15:38:33.631+01:00[QUOTE]Chrons is a terrible illness and the fact t...[QUOTE]Chrons is a terrible illness and the fact that medical staff could not grasp the extent of the pain it causes is horrifying.[/QUOTE]<br /><br />out of all conditions i have ever seen in my life or experienced and i have had many i would say that the bowel and bladder are the by far the worst as for the simple reason in that they are continually working in which pain relief invariably will not work <br /><br />I say that as a long time sufferer myself with many aliments and in knowing many people with life long conditions of the bowel and bladder <br /><br />even a so called mild condition like piles can bring about so much pain that the person concerned kills themselves in the hospitalAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-87530227882193391122012-04-28T15:28:59.410+01:002012-04-28T15:28:59.410+01:00The best wat to deal with people who say it's ...The best wat to deal with people who say it's all in your head is to ignore them<br />however if they should persist then the next best way is to whack them hard around there head there'll soon get the message and back off believe meAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-11705760194775068112012-04-28T11:30:53.158+01:002012-04-28T11:30:53.158+01:00Big Hug.Big Hug.Gilly and Mickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14481488487655582318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-80798348726137639092012-04-28T05:39:51.226+01:002012-04-28T05:39:51.226+01:00Oh - continued from above post.
One time when I w...Oh - continued from above post.<br /><br />One time when I was in hospital there was a 17 year old girl who had Chrone's - she was in agony. The staff were supposed to give her regular pethadine. They didn't. <br /><br />It was an orthopaedic ward - part from myself an her all of the other patients were very elderly women in for hip or knee surgery - mayny of them were suffering form quite advanced dementia. One was constantly screaming for her mother whilst she lay in a soiled nappy that stank - the nurses did nothing. Several of them couldn't feed themsleves and nurses would come in, put food in front of them and then take it away again saying 'oh you don't want it'. They were basically being starved. I saw a couple of nurses re-dislocate a very elderly woman's shoulder as they woman-handled her back into bed - they didn't tell anyone and she had to go back doen to surgery to have it sorted the next day.<br /><br />Anyway - the 17 year old Chrons patinet saw all this too and was rightly very distressed by it.<br /><br />She couldn't eat anything because of the pain and yet the nurses didn't seem to be able to grasp this - they kept trying to make her eat and nto giving her the necessary pain medication. Every time she ate she ended up shtting massive amonts of blood in excrutiting pain.<br /><br />Her parentas asked me to keep an eye on her as I was the only other youngish paitient on the ward. I tried to do that.<br /><br />In the end they removed large sections of her bowel and gave her a colostomy bag. They still didn't give her propper pain relief.<br /><br />Her mother wrote to me for the next year or so to let me know how she was getting on - it was not good.<br /><br />Chrons is a terrible illness and the fact that medical staff could not grasp the extent of the pain it causes is horrifying.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-1139085386675080482012-04-28T05:22:02.082+01:002012-04-28T05:22:02.082+01:00In 1996 I got very ill - eventually, after many GP...In 1996 I got very ill - eventually, after many GP visits I was told I had ME. I was bedridden in a dark room for the next few years.That was after being told by a GP that I was being 'hysterical' when I cried because I felt so bad in such a terrible way that I couldn't describe it and she didn't seem to be able to grasp it - in fact I was terrified - it was not so muh that I felt so ill that I might die but that I was in the process of dying - not like a panic attack but that my brain was shutting down. <br /><br />Another GP said 'well it's not like you are lolling around in the chair' when I told him I felt that I was going to pass out and that I was finding it hard to sit upright.<br /><br />I really feel that their faliue to take me seriously and believe me had a serious effect on what happened next.<br /><br />After months of trying to continue working and having to go home, dizzy, every muscle burning and throbbing and weakened from ordinary activity and it getting worse and worse a GP told me I probably had ME. <br /><br />I had no idea at the time what a terrible label that is to be given.<br /><br />I got worse and was bedridden in a dark room for years. I hurt all over, I vommited evey time I ate anything, I had room spinning vertigo 24/7, I had fevers, I couldn't sleep at all, my partner couldn't touch me because it was too painful.<br /><br />Despite all of this I was still not believed. <br /><br />I am a bit better now - I have lost my lover, my home and everythign I cared about and late this year I will be migrated from IB to ESA - yet more disbelief - to be honest I am not sure I will survive it.<br /><br />I am better than I was but I am still very unwell. I no longer have a partner or a secure home and I know that the new ESA medical will ramp up up the disblief again. I don't think most people understand what this this does to a person.<br /><br />I feel the 'it's all in your head' thing will kill me in the end because it will mean I end up benefitless and homeless and still very unwell.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-66620205999997521472012-04-27T23:41:21.037+01:002012-04-27T23:41:21.037+01:00I've been there more than once, first time at ...I've been there more than once, first time at the age of 12 when I began to experience the most debilitated pain in my back. Spent a year being told that I had urine infections - three in 12 months and the last one diagnosed over the phone without even seeing me or talking to me directly - eventually I was told (or rather my Mother was told) that it was either I was making it up to get off school or I actually believed I was in pain but I wasn't it was all in my head making me believe I was actually in pain when not. The proof of this claim? I was too young to have back pain!<br /><br />It got so bad that I even began to doubt myself, I knew I wasn't lying about the pain I was experiencing I figure that a GP knew better and if he said I categorically couldn't have spinal problems/pain then he has to be right! Right?<br /><br />Luckily for me my Mother and two of my aunts didn't believe him at all and said that they knew I was experiencing pain for several reason. One I wouldn't lie to simply get out of school. Two I was experiencing pain they could see if when these attacks came on. And Three, they doubted very much I had a psychological problem that was causing my supposed pain.<br /><br />So eventually they got me in to see my actual GP rather than this male partner who was basically writing me off as either a liar or crack-pot so to speak she talked to me and asked me questions and listened to my aunt explain the whole rigmarole they and I have had to weigh through over the previous year of continual GP visits.<br /><br />She said first, there was no thing as being too young to have back pain/problems and then she did a quick exam and told me that I had at least a curvature at the base of my spine that she could feel just be rubbing her thumb down my spinal column something that the other GP never did as I was never examined at any of the numerous appointments I had with him at all. She also diagnosed hammer toes and a calcium deficiency and referred to me the hospital specialist.<br /><br />One X-Ray later and my curvature was joint by two deformed and misplaced vertebrae in my prognosis.<br /><br />So definitely not 'all in my head' was it?!!!Lesley-Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15757557461696305872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-68978294338908206412012-04-27T18:19:43.164+01:002012-04-27T18:19:43.164+01:00I like this quote:
The Body in Pain by Elaine Sca...I like this quote:<br /><br />The Body in Pain by Elaine Scarry characterises it thus,<br /><br /> <br /><br />“…the conclusion [is]that physicians do not trust (hence, hear) the human voice, that they in effect perceive the voice of the patient as an ‘unreliable narrator’ of bodily events, a voice that must be bypassed as quickly as possible so that they can get around and behind it to the physical events themselves. But if the only external sign of the felt experience of pain (for which there is no alteration in blood count, no shadow on the x-ray, no pattern on the CAT scan) is the patient’s verbal report (however itself in adequate), then to bypass the voice is to bypass the bodily event, to bypass the patient, to bypass the person in pain.”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-16747393151673650232012-04-27T18:12:42.093+01:002012-04-27T18:12:42.093+01:00Glad to hear it Mark.
I can't find any resear...Glad to hear it Mark.<br /><br />I can't find any research done on the harms caused by disbelief of other symptoms.<br /><br />I personally feel traumatised by the way I have been treated.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-49991841239318215212012-04-27T12:38:12.467+01:002012-04-27T12:38:12.467+01:00[QUOTE]Anonymous has left a new comment on the pos...[QUOTE]Anonymous has left a new comment on the post "It's all in your Head": <br /><br /> Is it not time for the Crown Prosecution Service to “dust off” their rules on the common law offence of MISCONDUCT IN PUBLIC OFFICE which can carry life imprisonment. ( see: http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/l_to_o/misconduct_in_public_office/ )<br />According to the CPS the offence is committed when:<br />a public officer acting as such<br />wilfully neglects to perform his duty and/or wilfully misconducts himself<br />to such a degree as to amount to an abuse of the public’s trust in the office holder<br />without reasonable excuse or justification.<br />A reminder of the penalties before each vote in Parliament – Lords or Commons – might shake the corruption out of the system.<br /><br />If it is felt this is a bit harsh then people should realise that the impact of the changes falls on those least able to protect themselves :<br />1. The sick and disabled ( obviously)<br />2. The poor<br />3. The aged<br />4. Carers – mainly women.[/QUOTE]<br /><br />very true the main problem is getting a set of lawyers to implement itAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-35451640661375333122012-04-27T12:07:59.426+01:002012-04-27T12:07:59.426+01:00Is it not time for the Crown Prosecution Service t...Is it not time for the Crown Prosecution Service to “dust off” their rules on the common law offence of MISCONDUCT IN PUBLIC OFFICE which can carry life imprisonment. ( see: http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/l_to_o/misconduct_in_public_office/ )<br />According to the CPS the offence is committed when:<br />a public officer acting as such<br />wilfully neglects to perform his duty and/or wilfully misconducts himself<br />to such a degree as to amount to an abuse of the public’s trust in the office holder<br />without reasonable excuse or justification.<br />A reminder of the penalties before each vote in Parliament – Lords or Commons – might shake the corruption out of the system.<br /><br />If it is felt this is a bit harsh then people should realise that the impact of the changes falls on those least able to protect themselves :<br />1. The sick and disabled ( obviously)<br />2. The poor<br />3. The aged<br />4. Carers – mainly women.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-48506511491041959582012-04-27T11:59:36.316+01:002012-04-27T11:59:36.316+01:00Thank you Catherine,
I think I have closure to som...Thank you Catherine,<br />I think I have closure to some extent(after the funeral will be the most difficult part)sadly things were not as straight forward as I hoped and they wanted to do a Post Mortem(and I had to identify Mum's body)<br /><br />Then the pathologist had a car accident and it was put back another day.<br /><br />I have to accept the findings. I have given Mum a lovely delicate two piece to wear, I wish the shoes had been better but...and I have placed my last Mother's Day Card and a little bear in a carrier bag that says "I love You!" into the coffin with her. And I think I'll go the chapel of rest.<br /><br />I hate thinking of money but the meagre savings Mum had will probably make things difficult for me and though smaller properties are few, in time that may have to be an option and will have to move. I hate having to think of money. Its never been important but you need it to live. I try not to think too far ahead but thta's easier said than done.<br /><br />Thank you for kind thoughts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-2714004751548484322012-04-26T21:55:57.234+01:002012-04-26T21:55:57.234+01:00hi : ] ~Xxhi : ] ~XxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-47943204443227341582012-04-26T19:12:09.757+01:002012-04-26T19:12:09.757+01:00Anna of Hypercryptical alerted me to your post aft...Anna of Hypercryptical alerted me to your post after my latest posting. Unfortunately, much money is wasted in churning out robots that do not even have the memory of robots. <a href="http://cockroachcatcher.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">The Cockroach Catcher </a>Cockroach Catcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14440000294855006966noreply@blogger.com