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Today’s Lunch – 16th October 2019

Published October 16, 2019 by helentastic67

Today’s Lunch

Good Mental Health Day

Is it really only Hump Day? No, it’s gotta be Friday? I didn’t even have to do Person on Monday. However, it’s Tuesday evening as I tap out this post (I save this as a draft and add the important lunch details on Wednesday before I email it to Ms Noelle, my trusted administrator)

So, today I’m in Flemington at the Advisory group I’ve joined. It’s good to stretch my advocacy efforts. Also means I widen the networking. This meeting is only my second with them and it’s every 3 months.

So, lunch today is a little different, occasionally shit goes sideways and I’m a week early for a meeting and I’m left feeling like I got stood up for a second date!

So, medicine with white sugar! WTF people! Good coffee needs raw sugar.

Red Tape

Published October 12, 2018 by helentastic67

Red Tape 2

Red Tape

People who don’t work or live in a world of disability don’t understand what life is like without.

Able bodied

Last week I spent some time with a brain injury group and the moment I sat down, I felt the clawing hands of desperation to get at my funding, to benefit the place I was at.

Desperate for funding

I mean, I walked in and all the members were excited because they were all waiting patiently for “stuff to happen.” Then the staff started treating me like I worked there. How many people are coming? Where is Neil?

Treat like staff

Admittedly, I live closer than Neil (who is from the Peninsula and runs a group called ‘United Brains’) There weren’t enough chairs and I was informed  there were “staff” in the meeting room next door and they were using all the chairs.

Staff

Call me crazy, but I don’t think much success can come of a business model that doesn’t prioritise chairs for welcoming visitors. That’s not even the thing that made me completely livid last week.

Welcoming visitors

But the ‘thing’ that annoyed me the most was when one woman stated the staff at the NDIA don’t come from a disability background, because they want to treat us like we are NORMAL.

NDIS

Grrrrrrr….. this is why I’ve had to explain what my AFO does, why I had medically approved shoes and why I deal with migraines all the damn time.

I’m pretty certain, I’ve NEVER BEEN NORMAL!

Never Normal

Normal does sound pretty boring.

Normal is boring

 

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