Author Archives: Craige

Stockport Public Transport

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A few months ago I complained on here about disabled transport in the Stockport area, mainly taxis for disabled use. I have reported to my MP who put a Councilor on the job and after a month took a outdated list of transport numbers down off Stockport website. He also told me that because of […]

Christmas Carers 

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For the past 3 years we’ve had some bad times at Christmas. Firstly because any carers always want to be with family at Christmas and it’s been very dIfficult to find anyone who wants to work Christmas or Boxing Day let alone Christmas week. We have had some carers over Christmas but because of desperation […]

Here we go…

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So here we go we’re going to try and raise money for a wet room for Debbie. We’ve had a quote and it’s going to cost  £4K.  Applications are going in for part of budgets to be covered by MS society and other charity’s. Once underway we will  be asking council to contribute also.  I’ve […]

Christmas update 

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Debbie and Me are preparing for Christmas. Our main live in carer Lucia has gone back to Romania for Christmas and new year so we have been trying to sort external carers. The agency’s have not been much help but a Gumtree advert may have given us what we need. Usual daily struggle with disease […]

Carers Limbo Again

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  You have to have bags of patience in dealing with local government, NHS and government departments. We moved nearly a month ago now and although most areas have gone well I have had to hide away a lot of issues from Debbie. I don’t like hiding things from my sick wife but when the decisions […]

New Year a New plan

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I know it’s been a while since I updated this blog but I’ve been waiting for the world to wake after the Holidays, which seems to get longer every year. As I said in the last update we are in a state of limbo waiting for decisions from all parties and I really wanted to […]

Limbo Christmas

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Three weeks to go to Christmas and I haven’t bought one present or put any decorations up. We’re still waiting for Debbie’s benefits decision so I chased last week with DWP. They told me that there could be a up to a year for ATOS to perform the medical. ATOS are doing what they were […]