I'm exhausted - I've said that a lot lately but really I am. I've had to throw money at some of the bottlenecks and issues and I've finally decided to stop dicking about with an uncomfortable armchair that's grotty and about 30 years old (got it from my old landlady for £10!) and going for a sofa which arrives next month - it doubles as a single-bed (futon) which will really help me with working from home as being able to lie flat really helps my spinal pain at times.
The biggest pain of the last few days has been the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) who have just been a nightmare of "we're not allowed to do X" and "we work 0900-1700h and no, your working hours as one of our paying customers don't matter - you do what we say" totalitarian bureaucracy. Kicking back is hard to do when you use most of your energy handling pain and getting through the day but I feel I have to - not just for me but for all the others that are almost daily reporting equally botched ATOS "assessments" as mine - a few highlights of mine:
- Balance test showed I had poor balance - no balance test was done!
- I can "walk unaided" more than 200m - I can't walk at all unaided...!
- Being told I can't include something as "normal people get that too" - I'm not sure how being disabled isn't "normal" but hey ho.
It's all going into a lengthy formal complaint of course but due process first and we'll see how it goes. It's a very, very slow process and things seem to sit in bottlenecks a lot but right now I don't really have time to be angry at it all.
Tomorrow I have a really big day at work so I'm going to wash another skirting board and scrub my troubles away ;)
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