Went out Saturday wasn't really feeling up to it but went out anyway, only had one cremated bacon sarnie before I went out, don't really remember much about it, just what son told me. I don't even remember going out the door to go out but there is a sheet from the ambulance service. The sheet assumes I was drunk but when I came round the first thing I remember is that an ambulance had been called & that I had felt a pain in the left arm and buzzing in the left ear I knew straight away I had had a fit, but wasn't going to say that to to ambulance service as they would have preferred me to go to hospital for a check up.
I know I won't have had more than 5 pints, that's my limit, so would only have been merry as I normally drink at home either whiskey or pear cider as soon as ambulance service sat me up something I felt able to do myself but would have done it more slowly due to severe back pain, I was told by my son that when they sat me up I complained about severe lower back pain before throwing up.
Since that night I have had severe muscle pain in the arms, shoulders & neck, legs normally ache so I don't count that. I should have known not to go out after every operation I have had a fit or three and at least I would have been at home when it happened.
I would be guessing but getting a letter from the DWP asking for more information about a stay in hospital won't have helped the situation, today they send another letter telling me they received the letter back but may still need to contact my GP, they said that in the last feckin' letter they sent with the request to give them dates I was in hospital, they also said they may need me to attend an interrogation. WTF I know all the info they can get from the hospital, I have it all, but should they I am on a lower amount of DLA or that I don't qualify then they are going to be busy printing off all the info I will be requesting as a subject access request. All I have to do is find out what the equivalent of the ESA forms are.
Next week is my last payment of DLA for the claim period, I couldn't understand the forms to fill them in so had to wait until a family member had time to do it for me, so if they want a face to face interrogation they better not just send a date in a letter because in the time that has passed I have received more hospital appointments and they have been told that any verbal communication will be audio recorded. This is something they keep changing the rules with now you have to attach a letter to the form (ESA) so I assume it is the same for DLA, well taking up a third of the further info box with the phrase any verbal communication will be audio recorded, should get through to them, if not I still have a few tricks to hit them with.
Assuming the speed the DWP & ATOS work and the very limited notes the GP has on me then I guess they will call for an interrogation, but to say the last award was 5 years, and I read, or think I read, somewhere that DLA was now awarded in three stages 2 years, 5 years, & 10 years.
2 Years been that the disability is likely to improve or get better, 5 Years the disability is unlikely to improve or get better, 10 years there is little or no chance of any improvement. and as my last award was 5 Years and in my medical notes i found a page saying their was damage to the lower spine but the specialist would not commit to how this would affect me in the coming years, whereas ATOS will no doubt say it won't cause problems, maybe they would like to follow me in a t-shirt & jeans in zero temperatures, I would wear the same, and see who wanted to put on a coat or other clothing, I know it wouldn't be me because the severe pain makes me sweat and I don't get a cold or any illness after this but I bet anyone copying would unless they were full of alcohol.
So not the wait begins and I bet next week I get a letter saying they are cutting the ESA due to the DLA ending, but should they keep me at the same rate and continue from the date the last claim ended I bet I have a hell of a fight to claim back the money they may stop.
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