What would you do.?

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  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 8,452 Championing

    Sorry you experience that 100 percent i would have stopped

  • JD_INCINERATOR
    JD_INCINERATOR Online Community Member Posts: 61 Empowering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1082926#Comment_1082926

    I can't help but feel although I am kind and genuine person, many people don't seem receptive to it. Maybe it's because I'm more kind to others than to myself.

  • Doglover2
    Doglover2 Online Community Member Posts: 317 Empowering

    You sound like me @JD_INCINERATOR we need to think of ourselves too. I honestly don't. Take and. Keep on being you. X

  • Doglover2
    Doglover2 Online Community Member Posts: 317 Empowering

    @Catherine21 Thank you. This year's been extraordinarily difficult, most years are not the most pleasant but I feel this year has been utterly unbearable,indirectly for myself as well as directly. Its one thing in top of another, too many things to list and I wouldn't want to bore you. 😬 xx

  • Littlefatfriend
    Littlefatfriend Online Community Member Posts: 279 Pioneering

    I suspect an inevitable bias in this discussion Doglover2:

    In my experience people with disabilities are often particularly aware of and sensitive to potential need in other people, precisely because we (or people we've known) have experienced that need.

    Criminals have sometimes feigned illness or disability in order to set up their crimes. People have attempted to make all sorts of insurance and other legal claims against others who have tried to help them.

    It's a funny old world and people are far from perfect.

    I could understand that people there may have assumed your mother or your sister (or you) might have asked for help, if it could be given. They may also have assumed you were intoxicated.

    I'd like to think I'd have asked you, but I'm aware life can be very distracting.

    Life's lessons sometimes suck. I'm pleased you appear to have recovered.

    Good luck

  • kitsmum
    kitsmum Online Community Member Posts: 119 Empowering

    @Santosha12 I was diagnosed with BPPV which does dieorient you but I now also have ME Fibro and PoTS which mean my balance isn't always good either. I now use a wheelchair outdoors. I would still never just pass someone without checking they are ok. Sorry you can't get the crystals sorted.

  • Doglover2
    Doglover2 Online Community Member Posts: 317 Empowering
    edited November 13

    @Littlefatfriend I was out of it so couldn't ask ,my mum was unaware I'd hit the deck,she only knew i felt unwell, and was waiting 200yards away kerbside for my sister, my sister was away across the carpark to get the car and was in a line of traffic,I was alone.if it was a "Life lesson " its one I'd had to deal with most of my 60 years!

    As for

    " life being distracting" i guess we could all say that and pass on by.. luckily we don't. A simple "Are you ok"? Harms no one.

  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Online Community Member Posts: 3,065 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1083021#Comment_1083021

    Thank you, I can't quite remember the manoeuvre now, I think it's on the Menieres website, might look again to try it myself. I had PoTS which seems to have resolved, mine just goes up now but kidney related 🙄🤨. I'm sorry you have all that to contend with; being there for others is important to me and I'm glad my 'disabilities' do not totally diminish that.

  • Littlefatfriend
    Littlefatfriend Online Community Member Posts: 279 Pioneering

    Pardon me, it appeared you were sitting on the bench Doglover2.

    Clearly if you'd fallen to the floor that's very different.

    Perhaps that suggests it isn't safe for you to do that without help? That's just how I would read that situation.

    As I wrote, I suspect (and hope) other people with disabilities might have stopped to ask if you were okay. Apparently no-one did.

    Annie taught us it's a hard knocks life, and Baden Powell taught us to be prepared.

    Good luck

  • Doglover2
    Doglover2 Online Community Member Posts: 317 Empowering
    edited November 13

    @Littlefatfriend no.. i passed out twice once on floor then staggered to bench. Wasn't sat on it was prostrate on it. Out cold.bag on floor everthing all over the place from it. No im not safe alone. That's why I dont go out alone. In the words of my late grandmother "Circumstances alter cases".

    If you can prepare not to pass out "You're a better "man" than I am Gunga Din"

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 8,452 Championing

    I hope you have support it always comes in threes as they say I hope it passes and you can find comfort 🙏 I remember you saying you have dogs they keep us going they want feeding the works and loads of hugs x

  • Doglover2
    Doglover2 Online Community Member Posts: 317 Empowering

    @Catherine21 Thank you. Very kind.x

  • GalDriver
    GalDriver Online Community Member Posts: 92 Empowering

    Definitely stop and ask if you need help….even if you were a drunk! Humanity doesn't require sobriety and any of us, at any time, may need help. Take care. x

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