High rate mobility/care for DLA?

One DLA visiting doctor told me that he was comparing how much help i needed with a lady he had just visited who lived alone and i dont. This doctor is a nightmare, and although it is probably not legal to name him his name is the same as some revolting throat specific my father used to force down us as kids. Due to info on this site my complaint was listened to and all went well despite him. good luck to all

Morning Korky

Back in 2002 I needed to complete an Attendance Allowance application for my 86 yr old mother. I rang the DWP to get some advice. I told them that my mother lived alone but she was struggling. They told me that Mum didn't have to actually have a carer, I just had to show them that she had problems with looking after herself.

I live alone, but have been receiving DLA since 2003.

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Sorry to hear about your experience. I hope they are not all the same I know docotrs should be kind and considerate like your own gp. But some EMP's that I have read about on this forum seem rushed, don't listen or right the complete opposite of what you have said. Then you have try and reason with the tribunal to get what what you really deserve and are not thought of as work shy scroungers. You really are disabled and yet are made out to be liers because of what the doctors write about you.

I have to see my consultant orthopaedic foot surgeon on 27th April from which I will get another report then to send to the Disability Benefits Centre.

Also on the 31st I have to see a professor for my right ankle problems which started on the 26th May 2007. I will also send a copy of this to the DBC as well as. I just hope that with my gp's report, my consultants report and the report from the professor that they ask for I will not have to have a visit from anyone.

I will then be put on the waiting list for a subtalar joint fusion. which I will probably have to wait about 8 - 10 weeks for. After the operation I will probably be in plaster for about 12 weeks. Then the physiotherapists for I don't know how long for.



How will I be able to do anything for myself then as well, as the problems I have doing things now? Or do they think I can use crutches and push a hoover, bath myself, cook a dinner and do my own shopping etc. The pain I will get then will be a lot more than chronic or severe.

The help I need now is enough but having this done will make it 100% worse. For my mum who does everything to do with my day to day care now. I hope will mean that I will get something, for both HRM and HRC without having to have a doctor come to my house.

Korky wrote:

Sorry to hear about your experience. I hope they are not all the same I know docotrs should be kind and considerate like your own gp. But some EMP's that I have read about on this forum seem rushed, don't listen or right the complete opposite of what you have said. Then you have try and reason with the tribunal to get what what you really deserve and are not thought of as work shy scroungers. You really are disabled and yet are made out to be liers because of what the doctors write about you.

I have to see my consultant orthopaedic foot surgeon on 27th April from which I will get another report then to send to the Disability Benefits Centre.

Also on the 31st I have to see a professor for my right ankle problems which started on the 26th May 2007. I will also send a copy of this to the DBC as well as. I just hope that with my gp's report, my consultants report and the report from the professor that they ask for I will not have to have a visit from anyone.

I will then be put on the waiting list for a subtalar joint fusion. which I will probably have to wait about 8 - 10 weeks for. After the operation I will probably be in plaster for about 12 weeks. Then the physiotherapists for I don't know how long for.



How will I be able to do anything for myself then as well, as the problems I have doing things now? Or do they think I can use crutches and push a hoover, bath myself, cook a dinner and do my own shopping etc. The pain I will get then will be a lot more than chronic or severe.

The help I need now is enough but having this done will make it 100% worse. For my mum who does everything to do with my day to day care now. I hope will mean that I will get something, for both HRM and HRC without having to have a doctor come to my house.

beingbeing devils advocate .....
push a hoover and use crutches they might think you can do that, will the plaster be weight bearing ? is so they will say you can hoover sweep and mop no problem using the said items and not crutches ;)as for being in more pain come you have had a nice op on the nhs you must be better, they will send someone to visit in hospital and sort a job for you

on a serious note you should NOT be in more pain afterwards, after 6 weeks they give you new plaster/boot and you can start to but your foot down .... then another 6 to 10 weeks and they will have you in the gym doing exrercise oh and keep a knitting needle handy for itches

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Thanks for your reply Dave I think I will need the knitting needles . I have also got a slipped disc in my back, so these are the sort of jobs I am unable to do myself without being in severe, not chronic pain.

When I have the operation I will not be in a weight bearing plaster straight away. So during the necessary recovery period I would not be able to do these things myself. Not that I could anyway because of my slipped disc in my back.

I haven't had the operation yet. When I get a reply from the DLA I will keep everyone in the forum posted anyway.

Good luck to you.