Mobility Aids

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The more I think about it, the more I wish I had something to support me when I'm tired but still want to take a walk in the sun. If you have tested mobility aids, what were you favourite ones, their advantages, or ones you hated, do they have a positive effect? submitted by /u/Vi_BT to r/cfs [link] [comments]

Rachael Jones falsely claimed she was raped by a good Samaritan who gave her a lift home when he found her crying in the street. Rachael Jones, 38, was returning home from a drunken night out with pals when she was booted out of a taxi for rowing with the driver. Innocent dad-to-be Salim Ullah was passing by in his car when he saw the mum-of-five crying and barefoot in the street. He was so concerned about her distressed demeanour, he kindly stopped and offered her a ride home. But after he rebuffed her demands for a hug, Jones went inside her home and falsely claimed she had been lured into a car and gangraped by Salim and two other Pakistani men in a layby. Salim, 33, was traced through his car number plate and arrested at his home in front of his sister. He was then held in a police cell for 30 hours and had to undergo intrusive exams, Chester Crown Court was told. Salim remained a suspect for up to four days and became the subject of gossip in his neighbourhood before police concluded no rape had taken place. The dad-to-be had recorded his encounter with Jones on his mobile phone and provided the footage to police to help exonerate him. When she admitted to her lies, Jones told officers: ”I got myself in such a stupid state. In a statement he said: ‘My wife was six months pregnant at the time and this allegation brought a lot of stress to us. ‘I should have been fully there for my wife - however, we were worried about what would happen at the end of the case. ‘I was worried that I might not be there for the birth of the baby and I just feel lucky I recorded the incident.’ Saying his ordeal had left him feeling ‘violated’, Mr Ullah added: ‘I believe I was targeted due to my ethnicity.’ At Chester Crown Court, Jones, of Hassall Green, Cheshire, admitted perverting the course of justice. Judge Steven Everett told her: ‘Mr Ullah behaved in an exemplary fashion and did what many people would not have done and went to your aid. submitted by /u/The_Dean_France to r/SipsTea [link] [comments]

Hey everybody, I have autonomic dysfunction and some days I literally can't walk. All my symptoms flare up and my limbs are too weak, my fatigue is too extreme, the floor feels like its moving beneath me, I am shaking like a leaf, my heart is pounding out of my chest, vision's blurry, on the verge of vomiting nauseous and my hand eye coordination is out the window. I dont have a caretaker and my partner works long hours so on days like that, I sometimes hold my pee for way too long and don't eat the whole day because I cannot walk and Im alone. Or times where I have to leave family events early because I pushed too hard and started to flare or not be able to go at all because they're doing an activity my body can't handle in the state it is right now. I spoke to my Cardiologist and they recommended a wheelchair might be good for those days but my insurance is weird so they said it has to be through my primary to be covered. My insurance confirmed they were going to completely cover it that way. With this I could actually go and be present to things when needed and be able to move around the house during particularly bad days. Cut to talking to my primary. She was the one who helped me get diagnosed so I trusted her. Really did not think it was going to go like this when it came to her. She denied me because she doesn't want to "enable me" She is convinced I am going to just give up on life and stay in that wheelchair forever. I told her Im specifically asking for my really bad days where its either bedridden or at least self sufficient through wheelchair. Nope. She said "It's not good for my health" that with my condition I have to condition my body and get it moving. I CANT ON THOSE DAYS, I physically can't. I do the diet, I do the water, I do the salt, I do the PT. I even told her that sometimes I am in bad shape all day and if my body allows for me to finally do my PT even if it's at 3 am, I do it in the pitch black next to my sleeping partner. Thats how consistent I am, hello? I have been disabled all my life (I was disabled before this) so don't talk to me about perseverance. I bluntly said "A mobility aid is not good for my health but being trapped on my bed because I am completely unable to walk and holding my urine for too long and not eating is?" She went on the same spiel. "Im not comfortable giving you a wheelchair" so I said "Im going to say this very directly because I honestly don't know how else to say it. You are uncomfortable with this but inversely comfortable with refusing me aid?" She went on the same spiel, is now saying wheelchairs leads to muscle loss amongst other things. AGAIN for my bad days, not constant, so stupid, useless, and hyperbolic reasoning. She then started to go on a spiel that insurance usually doesn't cover it, that she even had an amputee patient at one point and they couldn't get it covered for him. First, thanks for comparing me to another case. Second, I am literally here because my insurnace directly told me they would this way. I informed her that again and even took out my phone to show her the medical equipment locations they sent me they would cover. Nope, kept talking, didn't even look. That excuse got debunked so she moved on. Said that usually medication and treatment are recommended. Even though I am literally on Ivabradine (mostly useless btw), am now on my sixth Cardiologist, and have been in PT for a year. She said to speak to a Cardiologist, THEY SENT ME HERE. Then she said that maybe I misunderstood them. Girl....are you serious? You are telling a disabled person you don't want to give them a mobility aid because you don't want to enable them. The most ableist shit I've heard in person bro. She spoke to another physician and came back and said they were on the same page, that even on a wheelchair I'll be "dizzy" anyways because I am sitting up so it "wouldn't make a difference." First of all, hate that way of phrasing like that's all Autonomic Dysfunction is. Also, if my fatigue is so bad I can't move, you can't tell me it'll be the same wheeling myself around in a seated position vs. walking. Also, for events with my family, I could avoid the flare up in the first place by taking care of myself for especially triggering activities FOR NOW. AS I GET TREATED. That is where my body is for now, I am not going to purposefully make myself sick, risk passing out in public, and put my heart into tachycardia doing something I know my body can't handle at the moment and call it conditioning. My specialized PT even said people ignorantly think that's what conditioning is. She kept saying "I know it's frustrating hearing no, I know it's not what you want to hear" I told her "Its not frustrating hearing no. It's frustrating that I feel like this is being framed like I'm unable to walk those times from lack of willpower" She denied and said if it really gets that bad, to go to the ER. Every single time? You know what's ironic? You know what an ER would do? After the ghost of Christmas past drives me there btw, they would put me on a fucking wheelchair. Before diagnosis, I went to the ER for this a few times and that's what they did. She said she had never heard of someone with "POTS" (not my diagnosis) needing a wheelchair. I told her many people with this condition, especially this severe, have walking aids like walkers, canes, or wheelchair for flare ups. Ignored me. My mom googled it for literally a second, guess what came up? She at one point closed her laptop and started to roll her chair away as I was talking to end the conversation. I left crying and might have to get a new primary. Yay. Another trusted doctor shows their complete ignorance and now I can no longer trust them and need to start all over with someone else. Lovely submitted by /u/Zealousideal-Fan2820 to r/POTS [link] [comments]

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