Category: Trigeminal Neuralgia
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A reasonable adjustment is defined by ACAS as changes made by an employer to remove or reduce a disadvantage related to a disability.
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I’m not going to keep this blog post impartial. The PIP benefit system is not fit for purpose, the DWP and courts are uneducated and biased, working on their own ideas of what disability and independence should look like and…
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My face always feels like I have something crawling on it and I don’t often get a break from it.
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I have faked being healthy, sometimes unsuccessfully, but usually pretty well, for the last seven and a half years.
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Obviously, I got rejected again. I received the letter in the post dated exactly one month after my first letter, not the 12 weeks I was told it may take.
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Simply, the fact I am ‘young’ means that I should be perfectly healthy. That’s great, in theory. Unfortunately, I think someone forgot to tell my body that, because sometimes, I feel like I’m falling to pieces.
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I am, in his words, sledgehammering myself with medication for the very small amount of pain relief I’m actually getting from the medication.
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I am accused of being dishonest about needing help with medication and my finances, because I could communicate my medical history to the nurse on the phone.
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I was asked could I prepare food, which I can. I wasn’t asked if I could eat the food.
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The phrase ‘occupational health’ seems to send people running and there’s such a negative association with being ‘managed out’ of their employment.
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