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<blockquote data-quote="valattrevear" data-source="post: 95459" data-attributes="member: 13110"><p>I always refused to think of myself as disabled, and carried on compensating for my shortcomings for two years. It wasn't until after my last period of hospitalization when an adult care worker pitched up at my home and re-organised my life with ramps, grab rails, bed hoists etc, that I realised that in fact I <u>was</u> disabled! The lady also informed me that although over sixty I could still apply for DLA, and I did so. The forms were not offputting, and I completed them in a reasonable amount of time, being granted the higher rate of DLA. I must add that diabetes is only a part of my "little miseries"[I will not consider them problems and have no wish to belittle the severity of the disorder] but was a definite factor.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="valattrevear, post: 95459, member: 13110"] I always refused to think of myself as disabled, and carried on compensating for my shortcomings for two years. It wasn't until after my last period of hospitalization when an adult care worker pitched up at my home and re-organised my life with ramps, grab rails, bed hoists etc, that I realised that in fact I [u]was[/u] disabled! The lady also informed me that although over sixty I could still apply for DLA, and I did so. The forms were not offputting, and I completed them in a reasonable amount of time, being granted the higher rate of DLA. I must add that diabetes is only a part of my "little miseries"[I will not consider them problems and have no wish to belittle the severity of the disorder] but was a definite factor. [/QUOTE]
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