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  • Leigh14
    Leigh14 Online Community Member Posts: 604 Empowering
    Maybe Iā€™ll go for second outdoors. Thankyou
  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Online Community Member Posts: 16,673 Championing
    I think the indoor one is fine, but do at least one for outdoors. I think the indoor one certainly shows the impact something like that has, & the severity of the situation if you hadn't been on your own (& I'm sorry it happened).
  • Leigh14
    Leigh14 Online Community Member Posts: 604 Empowering
    chiarieds said:
    I think the indoor one is fine, but do at least one for outdoors. I think the indoor one certainly shows the impact something like that has, & the severity of the situation if you hadn't been on your own (& I'm sorry it happened).
    Thankyou. I appreciate all the help youā€™ve given. Hoping to post this off tomorrow or Wednesday, at post office with proof of receiptšŸ˜‰. Once Iā€™ve sealed that dreaded envelope Iā€™ll be happier. Hope you have a good day.

    Welcome back to Poppy. Hope you had a lovely holidayšŸ™‚
  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Online Community Member Posts: 62,565 Championing
    Leigh14 said:
    chiarieds said:
    I think the indoor one is fine, but do at least one for outdoors. I think the indoor one certainly shows the impact something like that has, & the severity of the situation if you hadn't been on your own (& I'm sorry it happened).

    Welcome back to Poppy. Hope you had a lovely holidayšŸ™‚

    Thank you! Yes it was amazing! :)
  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Online Community Member Posts: 16,673 Championing
    Hope you've remembered to say your condition is 'ongoing' as far as COPD goes before you seal the dratted envelope, so you consider you should get an 'ongoing,' or much longer award @Leigh14
    Nearly forgot to remind you; thank goodness woodbine had posted. You did get a supportive letter of your
    GP, didn't you? Put your name & National Insurance number on that too.
    Then relax. :) you couldn't have done more.
  • Leigh14
    Leigh14 Online Community Member Posts: 604 Empowering
    @chiarieds & @woodbine. Thankyou for reminders.
    I did put that condition is ongoing, and is there a possibility of a much longer award, if I were to receive PIP. If you think wording is wrong, I can change it, as not posted yet. Re the Drs supportive letter, I did email requesting one, but itā€™s not been done yet (or at least Iā€™ve not heard anything) Iā€™m sure they would have been in touch as payment for it has to be given. I wasnā€™t too worried as on one of the front forms, it says what not to send and one was supporting letter from GP.

  • Leigh14
    Leigh14 Online Community Member Posts: 604 Empowering
    woodbine said:
    Leigh14 said:
    chiarieds said:
    I think the indoor one is fine, but do at least one for outdoors. I think the indoor one certainly shows the impact something like that has, & the severity of the situation if you hadn't been on your own (& I'm sorry it happened).
    Thankyou. I appreciate all the help youā€™ve given. Hoping to post this off tomorrow or Wednesday, at post office with proof of receiptšŸ˜‰. Once Iā€™ve sealed that dreaded envelope Iā€™ll be happier. Hope you have a good day.

    Welcome back to Poppy. Hope you had a lovely holidayšŸ™‚
    just get "proof of postage" its all you need and is free.
    fingers crossed for you
    Thankyou. Yes, Iā€™d remembered the proof of postage, but always great to get reminderšŸ™‚
    Itā€™s all done now, so post office tomorrow, then the waiting begins. Could be months couldnā€™t it? Thanks for your advice too.
  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Online Community Member Posts: 16,673 Championing
    Thats fine @Leigh14 - I did wonder if your GP might support any conditions that are ongoing such as COPD. GP's letters in general aren't much good about the descriptors, but would have been good for that. My right arm was damaged by another person years ago, but my GP could see that it's irrepairably damaged my thumb & wrist & I still have a partially dislocated collarbone, so it affects many activities so perhaps that helped. That's the sort of thing I was meaning.
  • Leigh14
    Leigh14 Online Community Member Posts: 604 Empowering
    False alarm, Iā€™ve re-read my written paper work, and not happy with some of it. The planning and following a route is making me stressed. Iā€™m mixing it up between my anxiety as well as COPD, which of course isnā€™t the descriptor, but saying that, many aspects of the COPD I can relate to the anxiety (breathlessness) Planning a route would mean me having to make sure there werenā€™t any inclines on pavements (again to do with COPD) me not really going anywhere anyway is also causing problems with this descriptor. Am I reading too much into it? I cannot seem to find the words.
    So, no post office today.
  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Online Community Member Posts: 62,565 Championing
    COPD would be more related to the moving around part and not following and planning a journey.Ā 

    Moving around is related to pain, discomfort and breathlessness so if you get out of breath are you able to continue to walk or do you need to stop to rest? If you need to stop, how far are you able to walk without needing to stop to catch your breath?Ā 
  • Leigh14
    Leigh14 Online Community Member Posts: 604 Empowering
    Hi Poppy. The moving around part Iā€™ve managed to complete, but the not following a journey is what Iā€™m struggling with. I donā€™t go out anywhere really, so I canā€™t give a real life written account. This is what is confusing me.
  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Online Community Member Posts: 16,673 Championing
    Hi @Leigh14 - I thought you'd 'got it' when we chatted about this before, if you look back. You got 4 points for this part before. It was this bit that you thought made sense,
    ''[planning a journey] may also be relevant if you can only go out when you are accompanied and this is due to a mental health condition such as depression, anxiety or panic attack. But the decision in such cases is likely to be that you have the ability to 'follow the route of' a journey even if you are too unwell to do so. You might then only get 4 points for (b).''
    The words 'planning a route' throw a lot of people. If you have say problems with anxiety & that makes your COPD worse, then increased breathlessness is the consequence of attempting/doing an activity remember.
    Just seen your last comment. So why do you not go out? Is that because of any anxiety/ depression? It's not what physically might limit you when you do go out, it's whether it's the former. Remember it's how you are the majority of days, so if you only go out once a week, what's stopping you on the other days?

  • Leigh14
    Leigh14 Online Community Member Posts: 604 Empowering
    Hi @chiarieds. Reasons I donā€™t go out is both really. I have now done the planning and following route, so I think I can say (again) that Iā€™m done with the form.
    Yes, I got this part before with your help, but when it came to writing, I was perhaps overthinking the whole what to write stuff. Doubting myself in what Iā€™d written if you see what I mean.Ā 
    Thankyou.
  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Online Community Member Posts: 16,673 Championing
    I'm sure it will all be well now. I understand what you mean; you can't help but overthink as you want to get it right, but it doesn't always help. I had no idea how to answer the plan & follow a journey one when I did my claim form in 2017 (before I had the benefit of this forum) :)
  • Leigh14
    Leigh14 Online Community Member Posts: 604 Empowering
    Thankyou so very much for guidance and advice. All papers are done. Tomorrow they will be gone, and I will know Iā€™ve done my best with them. Happier than I was earlier anyway.
    Cannot believe how stressful this all is. I admit I could have thrown papers across room several times todayšŸ¤£
  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Online Community Member Posts: 16,673 Championing
    You're welcome for my part. A great team effort! Pleased you're now pleased, so pat yourself on the back for getting through it all. It's such a shame these things raise your stress levels, but glad you haven't got a lot of papers to pick up off the floor. :)
  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 8,390 Scope Online Community Coordinator
    Excellent work there folks! I'm so glad it could all get done with minimal stress. :)Ā 
  • Leigh14
    Leigh14 Online Community Member Posts: 604 Empowering
    chiarieds said:
    You're welcome for my part. A great team effort! Pleased you're now pleased, so pat yourself on the back for getting through it all. It's such a shame these things raise your stress levels, but glad you haven't got a lot of papers to pick up off the floor. :)
    Iā€™m also pleased no paper to pick up, though there was a lot of scrunched up bits of wrongly written stuffšŸ¤£ Iā€™m just glad that the form isnā€™t going to be hanging around any longer. I can relax for a bit until the next stageĀ 
  • Leigh14
    Leigh14 Online Community Member Posts: 604 Empowering
    Thankyou @Albus_Scope. These members are truly great with their knowledge of everything to do with PIP.
  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Online Community Member Posts: 16,673 Championing
    Phew, & I can only say well done to you! We all try to give advice as we hope to help, but you've taken it all on board, & importantly asked pertinent questions when needed. If only everyone did the same as yourself! As I say, team effort, most importantly you, but also nasturtium, poppy & hope I helped too.Ā 
    I hope you are indeed (eventually) relaxing now, but it would be great if you would kindly let us all know how you get on, or else! :o

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