Worked several jobs, including in a nursing home. Got thyroid cancer and the treatment caused me to have a stroke and many other health issues. Thanks to the stroke I’m now partially sighted, can’t walk properly and can no longer work. Also have chronic foot infections and migraines. NHS treatment is so awful it has made my health worse rather than better. My local pharmacist tells me I’m a drain on the NHS because my medications cost so much. Got awarded disability benefits until 2028, but still waiting for the backpay and payments to start. Absolutely penniless and in debt.
Wow $200 once a week would be over $10K a year. Some people are surviving off less than that but say you can’t afford therapy and redditors are like “You need to get your priorities in order. Cut down on unnecessary spending.” Some of us already have no unnecessary spending as we can’t afford it!
Thank you.
Was the food then divided between the residents?
Probably just too ashamed.
Older generations were brought up with the idea that it’s shameful to receive help, but we need to do away with that idea, especially as wealth gets more and more concentrated in the hands of a few and there’s less for the rest of us.
You can pay for rehab with food stamps?
They want to deport immigrants, repeal human rights laws, destroy the NHS, give tax cuts to the wealthy, get rid of all climate protection policies, implement mass stop-and-search, introduce a “patriotic curriculum” in schools, ban “transgender ideology,” oppose “woke content,” protect landlords, reduce abortion access, repeal equality diversity and inclusion, restrict LGBTQ+ rights, and propose a “hardline, nationalist and socially conservative agenda.”
This is exactly what happened to me. GPs refused to do any tests for nearly 4 years, saying I was too young for it to be anything serious. Eventually my employer paid for me to get tests at a private hospital. Turned out to be thyroid cancer.
Thanks for the bump!
Thanks for the bump!
A lot of people who’ve been privileged in life like to imagine that they earnt it and that more unfortunate people deserve their poor fates too.
I wonder if this is what happened to Atlantis.
Haha, thank you, I hope so.
Marigold gloves and a binbag, pull it out by hand. Cheaper than getting a plumber.
Not good. Having allergic reactions to my meds, a UTI that won’t clear up and need more foot surgery. And my migraines are flaring up. 
I don’t know enough about it to comment.
You mean AMOC as in the climate thing?
May the workers finally rise up.
I find people in general are like that though. Very judgmental of anyone who’s struggling, always assuming if you aren’t doing well it’s your own fault for not trying hard enough. Many of the people on reddit who say things like this are middle aged too.