Todays independent disabled person challenge. Amazingly even though my disability is well documented I am not receiving mobility-this takes a staggering up to 6 months from applying ( you can only apply once your out of hospital). To get, once I have this I can get a mobility vehicle. Seemingly some suited person has to assess me to make sure Im genuine!!! Until this time then I dont get disabled rates for travel or help? I find this a little frustrating -is it not obvious that I need a wheelchair to move!! So Im reliant on being a passenger when Deb isnt working or paying for expensive mobility taxis..... Anyway back to my task -Travel to and back from Shipley using public transport, to meet my daughter and grandkids - have a Costa and do some long needed banking stuff. Im so fortunate to have always been a driver and that its been quite a few years since Ive ever been on a bus. Very helpful driver and the bus has a fold down ramp, awesome. Sadly no one told me to face backwards against the wall so I just sat in line with the normal chairs. First corner - wooohooooo the brakes on my loan chair are like IZAL loo roll,,, Im soon skidding down the deck of the bus like a tumbling wobbling wheeble,,, but managed to stay upright,,,roll on when my new chair comeeth. Had to pay full fare cos I dont have a piece of paper saying Im wheelchair dependant! Ok!. But know back home completely knackered after my antics of today. Plus things, people dont like to get too close to disabled wheelchaired people cause we freak em out a bit, great considering the lack of personal hygiene some fellow passengers seem to adopt,,,blimey deodorant or a wash doesnt cost the earth does it!!! Most shops in Shipley are not Wheelchair friendly so managed to save a fortune not buying anything,,,so many people offer to help by going into shops for me, lovely people. Sorry to those shops where I could get in, I didnt knock your displays over on purpose,,, I really tried to not collapse them. So in short ! A successful first outing, but am realising that shopping in anything other than a large shopping centre is bloody hard work. Pavements are pretty dangerous if your on wheels, especially when all dropped kerbs have raised bobbled for the partially sighted,,, these cause wheelchair users loads of problems!!! And as yet Ive never met a partially sighted person at a junction, lol. Pedal bins in disabled toilets are not great for wheelchair users!! Oh dear I am becoming a disabled person activist it seems.....
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 20:07:16 +0000
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