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I'll be 55 this August... I've had bronchiectasis for ten years plus this year... End stage lung disease for the past year...been on oxygen for three years... and have I got used to it yet?... nah! I am now waiting for the biggie; a double lung and maybe a heart transplant. I love my life weirdly enough, because I have some wonderful family and friends who are with me every step of the way on my adventures, even though I embarrass them on a daily basis with my unorthodox way of looking at life. Not for the faint hearted!

Thursday, 7 April 2011

Tick the correct box or do not pass go

I actually got up fairly early this morning and entirely of my own making and believe me that's an all time first.
I have no idea how I used to get up early for work and have energy to actually work well when I got there. I wake up tired now.
But to be truthful for a knackered person, I do cover quite a bit of ground when I am awake and functioning, however slowly.

I had to wait in for B&Q's to deliver my fireplace stroke garden heater, for want of a better word, which is what I chose to spend my voucher on from the girls at work.
I love being outside in my garden and hopefully I can have this alight in the summer evenings without blowing myself up when wearing my oxygen, as it's totally meshed in. Hopefully spark free.
B&Q actually gave you a time scale of only three hours unlike my TV delivery on Tuesday, which was 7am to 7pm and then came at 8.45pm!

So I spent my time wisely sorting out my paperwork for the various benefit people, who have now decided that they want to see everything again. Which is no problem, apart from the Jobseekers wanting to see the same form about my pension, which they haven't sent back as yet from last time and they don't accept photocopies.
Mind you, getting photocopies aren't so easy to get hold of anyway when you no longer work in an office.
Please tell me how people commit fraud? I can see they might do unintentionally as the forms are so crap to understand, but to do it on purpose they must be some real whizz kids!
I live in fear that I have accidentally put a decimal point in the wrong place or ticked the wrong box and I will be told to go straight to jail, do not pass go.
I have shed more tears out of frustration over these poxy forms when trying to fill them in then anything else to do with this disease of mine.
I used to be so on the ball. What has happened to me?!

All this aggro for £40.55 a week and it was on the news again today that they are cutting benefits again. By the time they get their act together, I will be paying them so I can stay at home ill.
Hello? Wasn't it the work's occupational health doctor who made me give up work in the first place?
A hundred lines... I must not be inconvenient and have a lung disease.

I did have one bit of luck today and that I was able to double my Tesco points and have £60 to spend on clothes for free...Yay!
Hell, should I have declared that too?
I must be in my monochrome stage at the moment as everything I brought was in black and white and mostly all striped like the old comic book burglar. Perhaps if they had little arrows up and down them as well, I could wear them in prison?
Still it's an excellent feeling getting something for nothing.
I will be the best dressed beggar on the streets anyway!

Lots of love Debbie x

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