Today at Wolverhampton University Walsall Campus, we asked the Student Learning Disabilities nurses what is important to them, Many people said marriage, family, friends, career and etc. Compared to people with disabilities and health problems, very little support the mainstream people need to access the things they may want and or even need in life. No one is saying that mainstream people don't have problems but they don't have to feel as if they are putting on others as much.
When it comes to the general populations, it can be hard for them to understand what it is like to ask asked for support at least 100% of your life. Most people with disabilities and health problems lose out on certain things in life, like making choices in our lives for example having children, learning to drive and holding down a proper full time job without facing the barriers in everyday lives.
More people with disabilities and health problems should have the rights if they want to education professions around Learning Disability and Mental Health in order for people with disabilities and health problems to live equal lives to other people as much as possible.
Over the past few years most GP surveys have been calling people with disabilities and health problems for health checks may be once or twice a year but not all surveys do that. GPs should be keep an eye on peoples' health even more so if they have had their benefit cuts, which could be down to a lot of stress and even weight loss as they may have very or no money to feed themselves. On top of this whether or not we have lost our benefits because getting poor health care we are in risk of losing our lives before we are 50. Most people with disabilities and health problems find they find it hard to get on with their GPs but it's not in everyones' case. In any case GPs are not trained same as hospital doctors and nurses. There's very little funding now to train GPs so many people say, which is a huge certain.
I have just had a very strange experience coming back from the Post Office. Don't always think if someone refuses to help someone it necessary means they are been selfish. It can be that a person is been honest about what they can and can't. An old lady asked me to help her cross the road, which was very busy. I said no because even though I have been crossing roads for over 20 years, I can still be a danger to myself mainly with very busy roads. This woman looked about my kind of age mid to late 40s who helped the old lady, she looked me at me very strangely as if she thought I was been selfish. What she didn't know was I was been cruel to be kind, I didn't want to put the old lady's or my life at risk but the woman who was helping didn't know the reason. It's seems bad that you are made to look bad if don't explain reasons why but when you have disabilities and health problems all your life, you spend your life explaining yourself, it shouldn't have to be that way should it?
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