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callitnotlove (U13399047)
Listed below are comments made by callitnotlove (U13399047) between Monday, 8th June 2009 and Monday, 19th October 2009
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Disabled Fat Nation
maybe I missed it, but there seems little suggestion around, for non athletes, other than shakespeares physio saying roll across the floor
hydrotherapy pools, passive exercise machines etc are what is needed when all joints are arthritic, for example, or all muscle gone.
These disability sports fans are not helping to militate for such provision, they harm our cause. We want public service providers to remember their obligations under disbility equality duty.
We could do without the semi-gray-thompsons distracting from our needs by giving the impression disabled people can could or should just ape traditional sportsmen and athletes. Prof Hawkins cannot, nor can your arthritic mum on a zimmer frame
Those damnable government officials with exhortations to the general public to "take a brisk daily walk" are hurtful, as well as non DED compliant. Best thing they could do is follow their own advice, briskly, off the end of a pier.
On the treadmill
put it in the living room and use it during your, or your boy's,. pet tv show? who on earth wants to go into the hall 30 mins a day? could your son use it too, if you fix a low speed and low support rail? or could you do family workouts daily, with him doing star jumps and run on the spot etc and your lady playing wimbledon or whatever, on wii fit?
Disability Bitch hates 'awareness'
The really really good.........depends what work you intend !
Bitch has forgotten a great one. Access to work means any employer who wants a lift in his building or a ton of all singing gadgets can get it all from the government, if he employs a crip
The shame of wearing hearing aids
As a child, I was bluffing my way along to hide being effectively blind through extreme short sight. As an adult, I got myself an eye test. But the nhs glasses were a design about 50 years out of date, too humiliating to be seen in
Opticians took advantage, charging extortionate prices for glasses anyone would actually wear. That seems still the situation.
And it is repeated with any other n.h.s gear. Hearing aids prosthetic limbs or mobility aids must all be 50 years out of date and hideously ugly. And private providers have the customers over a barrel, and can charge ridiculous prices.
Bulk purchasing power ought nowadays to make it possible for potential customers to obtain, ( perhaps with a voucher plus personal contribution,) the very latest, most appealing and efficient options. Supermarkets or n.h.s or mega online sellers should then be able to negotiate the best prices with suppliers.
Would that work? Could there be something like a 'Which?' report selecting the best options?
e.g. Maybe the top hearing aids this year are a new Norwegian design and two other new ones for a different type of hearing loss, with a runner up of the long-standing star performer which still satisfies a lot of users
Or maybe the n.h.s has been spending vast amounts on hideous ugly shiny pink plastic prosthetic legs, designed as usual 50 years ago. Perhaps, if only the potential customers were set free, the designers of the latest featherweight all singing all dancing realistic false legs would not only massively increase their range, they would set off a competetive battle with their rival suppliers to produce the fancy expensive extras as standard, and to improve the range with some new method of skin colour matching and realistic covering.
As to mobility aids, there are a confusing and complicated mass out there, many of which cost the price of a car, or even more. There is no realistic way to try before you buy, no hire system, precious little advice, nowhere to see all choices in one place, and no incentive to bring prices down for the latest improvements. Instead, one after another firm introduces a great advance, then hits the double hurdle of needing to pass impossibly costly government restrictions and testing, being unable to import the best from overseas and unable to overcome the catch 22 of not having a certain market for a large manufacturing order, therefore not being able to persuade the manufacturer to reduce the price.
Even the simplest thing, like shock absorbing crutches, which PREVENT further injury in long term use, are just not available on n.h.s, who insist on the ugliest nastiest heaviest old stuff designed, as ever, 50 years ago. So, you research online and the user-results show above all, get Fetterman. But it's USA, and you will find it really difficult to import even a simple thing like a shock absorbing crutch tip (They only take dollars, the shipping costs are as much as the product, they don't have uk suppliers, and there is no knowing if they will fit your nasty n.h.s crutches)
Who needs airport assistance?
You say there is extra luggage allowance? Not that I ever encountered.