Friday, 12 November 2010
Thank you Atos
Thanks very much. I wanted to have a day today that was more peaceful for my head. To catch up with how I feel (I find it hard to work out how I feel while involved/busy with things, the feelings emerge later and need time). But no, I am in a tizz. ESA medical questionnaire has arrived. It only seems five minutes since the last one came, but it is six months, so was to be expected. Only I had blocked it out. No more to say. I am glad that I am being checked up on. It is good for my soaring guilt levels. But, I also despise the whole thing. I want to get better, I am working on it hard. The envelope bumping through the letter box made my heart sink, it shouldn't scare me so much, but it really really does.
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This happened to me 6 weeks ago when I'd only had their initial decision in June. I have the dreaded medical on tuesday. It's shit having to go through that humiliation again so soon. Unfortunately it's the norm now - to pull claimants up for 6 monthly reviews. Even the terminally ill aren't exempt if they haven't shuffled off in the alloted time (6 months). What a caring society we're living in!
ReplyDeleteBasically, and as we all know, the incentive is to bump people off as soon as possible and put a many barriers in the way to claiming/re-claiming or appealing and not to actually invest the vast resources they're putting into it in supporting people to get better or make steps towards work.!
Rant over.
Take care and good luck with it. x
Thanks for commenting! I hope Tuesday goes your way. It is so crap. And really don't understand why a doctor we don't know knows better or more than a psych or GP that has known us ages. Doesn't make sense, but then not much does these days. Good luck xx
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