Jeepers girl, not good, infact downright unacceptable in this day and age. Grrrrrrrrrr. Forms of the official persuation I am sure, were set up by a sadist who enjoys the stress they cause to folks. Whatever happend to "if your circumstances change"????? . I feel for you Lisa. The last Doctor to come through our door to assess me Dad was handed his kit back within ten minutes, and politely told "here's your hat whats your hurry". The idiot was trying to get my Dad to do excersises that would cause further trauma on his poor old spine. The remit seems to be, prove them to be shirkers reguardless of consiquence.

I hope your spirits pick up a bit and all I can say is that you are in my thoughts. Take care of you.

Luv Winnie.xxxx

The water boiler problem is still going on? That's absurd. As for the unable to work thing, I'm in the same boat as you in that regard, I'm now on a disability pension and it was seriously doing my head in for a while there as I was so used to being so very active and always had a paid job, a volunteer job, and study of some sort going on all at once. To suddenly stop and that's the end of that, it's damn hard to get used to, and it is hard to deal with other people's opinions as well. When they don't know how hard I used to work and they see me now, they can only assume that I've always been that way and I've got not idea what it's like to work long hard hours and earn large sums of money. They assume I've always been dependant on others, when in fact it was always others that were dependant on me. It's a major blow to my self-esteem, which wasn't the best to start with! So I fully understand where you're coming from there matey. You're not alone in that regards.