Postcode Lottery

A few years ago the phrase Postcode Lottery was used almost continuously to describe the differences between health care from one area to another. A few weeks ago I found out for myself that this is still unfortunately fairly accurate.

For the last couple of years I’ve had occasional issues with my hip due to a condition I was born with however two months ago it blew up to levels I had not experiences. Constant pain, an inability to walk, taking the best part of an hour to walk up one flight of stairs. I thought I was disabled bef

After speaking, or should that be crying due to the pain, to a friend of mine I phoned Occupational Therapy where I spoke to an individual who I will not name who demanded that I agree that others were worse off than myself as others had cancer not just not being able to move and as I was young she

Its now around eight weeks later and I’ve been treated at my parents doctor as a temporary patient, been in and out of hospitals, been regularly seen by a physiotherapist and have now seen the consultant I had previously waited a year to see. My parents live around 50 miles away from home and the tr

I’ve learned so many lessons during this time. Namely that it is not ok to be treated as less than human and this has made me even more determined to stand for Council elections next year. I never, ever, want anyone to feel as bad as I felt when asking for help which was much needed. Secondly that m

The past few months have been difficult for myself but I have been able to take lessons from these and I promise that these will be central to my election campaign and beyond. Disabled people do matter and we need to ensure that this is the case in all aspects of life and politics.