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Registered disabled having broke my back 30yrs ago

JCFlipper6
JCFlipper6 Community member Posts: 8 Listener
Hello all, thank you for allowing me to join this forum.
i am registered disabled having broke my back 30yrs ago, I was told I would never walk again but I’m a stubborn mare!
I have other issues and more added every now and then which just go on the silly list! Have to laugh ? it’s the only way to cope ish!
well that’s me in a nutshell xx

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  • Ami2301
    Ami2301 Community member Posts: 7,942 Disability Gamechanger
    Hi @JCFlipper6 welcome to the community! Let us know if there is anything that we can help you with :)
    Disability Gamechanger - 2019
  • steve51
    steve51 Community member Posts: 7,153 Disability Gamechanger
    Hi @JCFlipper6

    Welcome to our online community/family ?‍?‍?‍?

    I am one off the Community Champion’s on here.

    Please please let me know if there’s anything that I can help/support you with???

    @steve51
  • JCFlipper6
    JCFlipper6 Community member Posts: 8 Listener
    steve51 said:
    Hi @JCFlipper6

    Welcome to our online community/family ?‍?‍?‍?

    I am one off the Community Champion’s on here.

    Please please let me know if there’s anything that I can help/support you with???

    @steve51

  • Sam_Alumni
    Sam_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,671 Disability Gamechanger
    Good morning @JCFlipper6 and welcome to the community :)

    Scope
    Senior online community officer
  • JCFlipper6
    JCFlipper6 Community member Posts: 8 Listener
    Type your commented Steve Hi Steve,
    thank you does it matter where in the country I am?
    Can what I write be seen by people not in the group?
    I wish you a happy day ? 
  • JCFlipper6
    JCFlipper6 Community member Posts: 8 Listener
    Sam_Scope said:
    Good morning @JCFlipper6 and welcome to the community :)

    Hi Sam, thank you for letting me join this forum. I have no idea what I can ask or how things work on here?
    kidests regards, JC ?
  • thespiceman
    thespiceman Community member Posts: 6,388 Disability Gamechanger
    Hello @JCFlipper6   Pleased to meet you welcome.

    Thank you for joining and sharing.

    I am one of the team of community champions who guide, advise and help new members who join the forum.

    In response to your questions please have a look at our community guide and house rules.

    Also this is what a forum is an open discussion where members of the community can talk to each other.

    About the topics and themes that concern them.  Anything and everything around disability or illness or conditions.

    Also families and parents of children as well.

    After 25 posts I believe you can talk privately in our messaging service.

    I do this every day because I live on my own have many friends speak to privately. Also always on here helping and assisting and being supportive those in the community . Does help.

    Have a look around the forum.

    Please ask if you wish to know anything. This is UK based this forum but that does not matter have friends I speak to in USA.

    Hope that helps.

    Pleasure to meet you . Like your positivity.

    Take care.

    @thespiceman


    Community Champion
    SCOPE Volunteer Award Engaging Communities 2019
    Mental Health advice, guidance and information to all members
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  • steve51
    steve51 Community member Posts: 7,153 Disability Gamechanger
    Hi @JCFlipper6

    Thank you very much.

    In what area do you live??

    Yes I can help you with the more “private area”

    Please let me know if I can help you further??

    @steve51
  • JCFlipper6
    JCFlipper6 Community member Posts: 8 Listener
    Hello @JCFlipper6   Pleased to meet you welcome.

    Thank you for joining and sharing.

    I am one of the team of community champions who guide, advise and help new members who join the forum.

    In response to your questions please have a look at our community guide and house rules.

    Also this is what a forum is an open discussion where members of the community can talk to each other.

    About the topics and themes that concern them.  Anything and everything around disability or illness or conditions.

    Also families and parents of children as well.

    After 25 posts I believe you can talk privately in our messaging service.

    I do this every day because I live on my own have many friends speak to privately. Also always on here helping and assisting and being supportive those in the community . Does help.

    Have a look around the forum.

    Please ask if you wish to know anything. This is UK based this forum but that does not matter have friends I speak to in USA.

    Hope that helps.

    Pleasure to meet you . Like your positivity.

    Take care.

    @thespiceman



  • JCFlipper6
    JCFlipper6 Community member Posts: 8 Listener
    Type your commentHi Spiceman, 

    I live in Suffolk on my own with no family, a few friends but mainly not close some only in U.K. for limited time, lucky them!
    Are you anywhere near me or other end of country? Haha

    I help a few people who have a family member with Alzheimer’s & Dementia as I went through this with mummy all on my own so have lots of knowledge to draw from.
    You are right it is good to help others, I believe in pay it forward.

    This time of year when it’s cold I am often bed bound with no assistance have had to cope on my own for last 10 years, shall we say I have my own inimitable way of doing things.
    God bless the person who invented grabbers and electric beds ??????

    I am very much a night night owl as pain prevents me from sleeping other than in short bursts most of the time.
    My back can go into seizure at anytime with no warning which limits what I do.

    i get great pleasure from being outside in my garden when the weather is better, I crawl round on hands and knees but always have my mb in my pocket in case I need help however that is utter desperation level!

    Currently waiting for a shower to be put in for me, I’ve been without one for 3years having to drive 25mins to a friends house to wash my hair!

    I hope that gives you an idea of my circumstances.

    I am still learning what help exists as it’s hard to find out.

    Take care,

    JC 





  • JCFlipper6
    JCFlipper6 Community member Posts: 8 Listener
    steve51 said:
    Hi @JCFlipper6

    Thank you very much.

    In what area do you live??

    Yes I can help you with the more “private area”

    Please let me know if I can help you further??

    @steve51

  • JCFlipper6
    JCFlipper6 Community member Posts: 8 Listener
    Type your commentHi Steve, 

    please read my reply to the spiceman....can you view it I’m not sure how this works? 
    Please let me know if anyone can read what I write in my messages?

    Take care,

    JC ?
  • Antonia_Alumni
    Antonia_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 1,780 Pioneering
    Welcome to the community @JCFlipper6 , thank you for sharing this with us. It's nice to hear how you are supporting others, caring for a loved one can be isolating at times. I hope you get your shower fitted in soon, have you been given a timeframe?

    Please have a read through our guidelines about our community and please feel free to join our recent discussions

    If you have any questions, please let us know.
  • thespiceman
    thespiceman Community member Posts: 6,388 Disability Gamechanger

    Hello @JCFlipper6 Thank you for your reply.

    Also sharing.  I live in the cold windy North can not tell you where. Something we as a community are not allowed to share.

    In a small isolated rural village .

    Sorry to hear that you are struggling.  How can the community help.?

    There is help and support out there as well as the advice and information from SCOPE. 

    Please ask if we can as a community help and advise be happy to. No problems.

    I know this is difficult some days for you we are always here anytime. If you need a friend or a chat.

    Keep in touch.

    Take care.

    @thespiceman




    Community Champion
    SCOPE Volunteer Award Engaging Communities 2019
    Mental Health advice, guidance and information to all members
    Nutrition, Diet, Wellbeing, Addiction.
    Recipes

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