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Selling Secondhand Mobility Aids?
Can anyone kindly tell me where I can sell secondhand mobility aids (like wheelchairs etc)?? I have tried on Facebook but keep getting it removed as against rules to sell or gift mobility aids apparently. Not sure where else there is? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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I cannot get a proper appointment for hospital visit.
Hi everyone I am Samantha, I have not posted for awhile as most of my problems have been sorted out. I have a whole set of new problems which started since October 2024 and now I feel I am back to square one in knowing what to do if anyone can give me some advice please do. My main disability is long term back problems and…
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Carers
hi I’m on full rate pip and contributory esa would I be able to end my contributory esa to claim carers allowance for my partner would it affect my full rate pip
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Health anxiety/support
Hi everyone, I have health anxiety, I caught some kind of throat infection that caused me to have pericarditis (fluid around the heart) which has made my health anxiety spiral in an extreme way. I unfortunately have been to a&e a number of times with this issue from having really bad panic attacks and seeing the mental…
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Help with Days out and mental health
okay, really didn’t know what to title this post as so sorry if you have come here under false assumptions. I have chronic pain and my mobility has got worse and I now use a rollator that converts to a wheelchair as I get that exhausted. But the problem is - I have no one to go with me so even if I get exhausted and can…
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Worried for this Community
"I am worried for this community since the latest government announcements. You can see how it is affecting people in all that is posted here, covering all subjects. It's like a motorway pile-up, and everyone is just wandering around trying to find a direction to go in. There is little direction, and we are just left…
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Mental health accusation
Hi, my name is PaulPeterson and I would like to ask a question about Adult Social Care. What legal options have a person placed under adult safeguarding without consent? Please think of situation where adult is remotely assessed as a risk to others and himself, placed under safeguarding and informed consent is overridden…
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Lasting Power of Attorney advice
Hi, Can anyone advise me please? My parents are planning for the future & they want me to have Power of Attorney over their finances . This would mean that my details would be registered with their bank & I would have a card with representative on it. Would this effect my UC & any future reviews if we went ahead with this?…
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(UPDATE!!) felt humiliated and insulted by two tesco female staff yesterday
hi everyone, some time back i made a post regarding the two female staff members at tesco who called me dodgy and laughed in my face because i was veiled (due to my religion: Islam) with my coat hood up (i was so cold because it was ramadan then and i did not eat from dawn) and obviously i was humiliated and i left the…
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Thankful to the fire brigade service - a bad day
Today I had a bath, and felt something crack as the bath lift was going down, I thought it was a flap as cracks were appearing on the flaps. As I tried to lift the bath seat there was a crunch sound, it then went lop sided and then fell down, luckily it didnt fall far as it barely got me up. But I was stuck for about 2 and…
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Hi, my name is claudia32! ex sky sports customer here. Recently joined virgin...
Hi team... ex sky sports customer here. Recently joined virgin. We have logged out of sky sports on our devices but everytime we try to log in through virgin media it pushes back into the old sky account which of course isn't active. We have deleted and re installed the app. Any advice? Tia claudia
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Has anyone been to NAIDEX before?
Hi all, I have been thinking about heading to this year's NAIDEX as a way of connecting with the community, and hopefully trying out some different wheelchairs and equipment to see if anything would work better for me than what I have now. However it is a big deal for me to be going to something like that, the travel, the…
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Private prescription and NHS
I’ve got a shared care agreement between my psychiatrist and GP. previously to a private psychiatrist I was off work , became homeless and so on. I met my partner, today my husband who paid for me to go privately 12 years ago. I have been work full time since then. my psychiatrist now wants to change to another medication…
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Gift Vouchers
How can I use a gift voucher in a supermarket?
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Lasting power of attorney
please can somebody advise me? I am trying to fill in LPA through government website and I am confused on one of the questions. do I put my name down as the donor in one of the question or the person who I want to act on my behalf who could make the decisions this is very confusing
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Heath issues
Put a request in this morning about a new skin rash, updated on medication is going at moment not good, an an occ appointment, put the request in at 8:24am it's now almost 2pm and still haven't heard off them I've called twice as I realised I put a mistake in it as I mentioned carpal tunnel first flared up I put 13th of…
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Virgin accessible experiences
I was looking at days out / experiences and found that whilst Virgin offer “driving” experiences for “normals” – they offer “passenger” experiences for us disabled….priced at a huge amount more than “normal” pay for actually driving these vehicles…
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Pee'd off & no, nothing to do with politics or DWP!
The left side of my neck started aching Thursday evening, which was er…pain in the neck! It's even more so now, Friday I had a weird feeling on my scalp going down under my chin, a tingling odd feel. Yesterday, I realised it could well be shingles & yup, it is that. On my scalp, now on my ear & I'm hoping it won't track…
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Hi to all
I had to go to A&E on friday afternoon as I had pains in my chest and breathlessness & and it hurt to breath in they did a chest xray & I have Pneumonia on Antibiotics & Codine Yuck. I had a new washer dryer delivered Saturday the waste pipe has a Big Slit in it. I've tried to contact them no one has answered now what do I…
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Equality and blue badge parking
I need some help, and I am looking for support and additional evidence, as it is clear that Islington and other Councils' approach to enforcing PCNs reflects a revenue-driven agenda rather than a genuine commitment to traffic management. The Council’s stated purpose for issuing PCNs is to manage road safety and prevent…
