Re: Caroline/transportation

[Guest guest]

Hi Caroline,

I read your recent post about not having any help to get to appointments

etc., and I wondered if you have a transport company in your area. These

companies are a godsend to people who don't drive. They will pick you up and

take

you anywhere. Of course the drawback is that you have to go by their

schedule, which can pose some problems. Just a thought.

Kathleen in Calif.

PS.

They also have transportation volunteers in many areas who will pick you up

in their own cars and drive you to doctors and the like.

[Guest guest]

I can drive now. Just have to not drive too far or stay out too long. But the

pain has subsided now a lot so I can drive. I've already driven several places

this week in fact. I know about the transport for disabled people though. My

late husband had that back where we used to live. But it required a letter from

the doctor attesting to the fact one is unable to drive & for what reason. I

don't have one of those letters.

I see that here in my new area there is one too as it drives around this MHP

picking up disabled people. I suppose their requirements are the same. A

doctor's letter. I've seen it around town too. It's a little yellow bus. So I

would call them if I couldn't drive at all, yes.

Thanx for your kindly suggestion anyway though.

Blessings,

Caroline

Krag52@... wrote:

Hi Caroline,

I read your recent post about not having any help to get to appointments

etc., and I wondered if you have a transport company in your area.

[Guest guest]

Hi Mara,

I'm sure all this information will surely help others on the group. It's

helped me to learn some of the things you wrote too that I didn't know before or

never thought of. Like getting a place to deliver groceries when needed. Some

stores do that, some don't. But I've never had to have it so far, thankfully.

I also have a handicapped parking permit which my doctor gave me a letter for to

get a couple of months ago. Being a new doctor me since I moved here 2 years

ago, she'd never seen any previous x-rays of me. So we had some taken after my

last fall off a chair in March when I was hurting so bad. She just shook her

head at the x-rays & now will prescrib any kind of pain pills or other stuff I

ever want or need.

I don't have a copy of that letter anymore as I sent it to the DMV. But I could

get another one easily from her for other kinds of transporation I may need in

the future. I also used to work, years ago, for a house cleaning agency that

also was hired by handicapped, disabled people for driving them around, helping

carry groceries, putting them away, etc.

But I surely cannot afford to hired anything like that. Nor could I afford to

hire anyone to drive me around. So I'd have to find a free or very low cost

place to do all that for me. It's getting harder & harder for me to shop, carry

groceries into the house & put it all away. Sometimes it takes me two or three

days to get it all done.

And it's getting harder to get around in the stores too...too much walking. I

couldn't do it all without leaning on the shopping cart all the time right

straight from getting out of my car in the parking lot into the store with it &

then back to the car with it as well. From the car into the house is another

problem I've only got partially resolved so far. I sure could use household &

yard assistance too but can't afford that either. So I know how it is tho I do

envy people who can afford to hire people for all this stuff.

Blessings,

Caroline

lakelover125 wrote:

Hi Caroline,

I appreciate and can relate to many of your posts. My pain makes it hard for me

to write as often as I want. I'm glad for you that you are able to drive more

now. I have problems with driving because of all the bad disks in my neck -

[Guest guest]

They don't have the electric carts where you shop? Gods, I wouldn't be able to

shop at all if not

for the electric carts.

At least I have slave labor - er, children at home to help with some things. Of

course one of them

is a total slacker and the other has an autistic disorder, so the help is spotty

at best.

Wicked / Since 1949 the one true original real Robin A. Vosburg

" With any luck we'll all be dead by then. " - Dorathy Beale Vosburg

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And it's getting harder to get around in the stores too... too much walking. I

Caroline

[Guest guest]

Hi Caroline,

For a while I got the help with cleaning, cooking, and errands paid

through the car accidents (it came out of the money for lost wages

and replacement services, so technically I should've gotten the max.

amount for lost wages anyway, even if I didn't have replacement

services - to replace things you used to be able to do yourself). I

don't think I could've survived at the time without help - I was in

such bad shape and live alone with my 2 cats. At first, when I left

the hospital, I even had home bathing help and home physical therapy.

I don't have money for the cleaning, cooking, and errands help

anymore, but I am better enough to do some of the stuff myself,

thankfully. The company that I hired to help me also does work for

disabled and elderly people that are getting help through the county

and the county pays for the help.

Thanks for all your replies, I haven't had a chance to go through

them all yet and I'm hurting so bad I have to stop now. Have a great

day!

Mara