Edited by Casper Smith, Monday, 22 Feb 2021, 13:20
Overwhelmed with the support from DSA, SFE and the OU, I am waiting for an ergonomics assessor to come visit me at my Mothers home, then all assessments and forms will be completed. Because I have a chronic nerve condition affecting my right upper torso, including, hand, arm, shoulder, chest, neck and head, which is psychosomatic, I have a constant stabbing pain going through my right back shoulder to my right chest, its as if i have been stabbed with a spear and the spear is left in me, I also have constant sensations of burning hot, freezing cold, numbness and pins and needles in my two right fore fingers and right thumb, the same sensations running down my face, neck, triceps and fore arm, the back of my right hand constantly feels like I have had the skin removed, while somebody plucks my nerves and tenants like a banjo. If i stand, sit and lay in certain positions, the right side of my head goes numb, intense numbness and pins and needles all over both shoulders, along back ache, head ache and neck ache. Because its a psychosomatic condition i take 16 tablets a day, I take 6 tablets to go to sleep, 5 tablets to wake up, and the rest through out the day, these help dull down the pain but as for the sensations, there is nothing that i can do. It feels like having repetitive strain syndrome x10, all over, constantly. I can only study, write or type in 10 minute intervals, the pain and sensations distract me from my studies, to the point I have to leave the room and get fresh air. Just like now, aaarrrggghhh 'it's so annoying. Back again, at times 'a lot of the time' I genuinely feel like beating myself with a hammer, or gorging it out with a screw driver. All of this started when I was in an a abusive relationship with a lady who ended up stabbing me. I come from old fashioned people, and I am a bit old fashioned myself, if its broken i fix it, to my detriment, I very rarely ask for help and more or less put up and shut up. Since I have started to ask for help the DSA, SFE and OU have blown me away with the amount of support they have giving me, they really have gone above and beyond. I plod through life dealing with the up's and down's, not giving them a second thought, it's not until i read the assessment report that I realise how things have changed and I am no longer the fit and healthy 18 year old I once was. Reading the report really brought a tear to my eye, it was hard to comprehend that the report was about me. 'Such as life and all it's stages woman work while men spend their wages' comes to mind, I often hear my Mother saying that. Thing's can always be worse right.
Day 77 of OU studies.
Overwhelmed with the support from DSA, SFE and the OU, I am waiting for an ergonomics assessor to come visit me at my Mothers home, then all assessments and forms will be completed. Because I have a chronic nerve condition affecting my right upper torso, including, hand, arm, shoulder, chest, neck and head, which is psychosomatic, I have a constant stabbing pain going through my right back shoulder to my right chest, its as if i have been stabbed with a spear and the spear is left in me, I also have constant sensations of burning hot, freezing cold, numbness and pins and needles in my two right fore fingers and right thumb, the same sensations running down my face, neck, triceps and fore arm, the back of my right hand constantly feels like I have had the skin removed, while somebody plucks my nerves and tenants like a banjo. If i stand, sit and lay in certain positions, the right side of my head goes numb, intense numbness and pins and needles all over both shoulders, along back ache, head ache and neck ache. Because its a psychosomatic condition i take 16 tablets a day, I take 6 tablets to go to sleep, 5 tablets to wake up, and the rest through out the day, these help dull down the pain but as for the sensations, there is nothing that i can do. It feels like having repetitive strain syndrome x10, all over, constantly. I can only study, write or type in 10 minute intervals, the pain and sensations distract me from my studies, to the point I have to leave the room and get fresh air. Just like now, aaarrrggghhh 'it's so annoying. Back again, at times 'a lot of the time' I genuinely feel like beating myself with a hammer, or gorging it out with a screw driver. All of this started when I was in an a abusive relationship with a lady who ended up stabbing me. I come from old fashioned people, and I am a bit old fashioned myself, if its broken i fix it, to my detriment, I very rarely ask for help and more or less put up and shut up. Since I have started to ask for help the DSA, SFE and OU have blown me away with the amount of support they have giving me, they really have gone above and beyond. I plod through life dealing with the up's and down's, not giving them a second thought, it's not until i read the assessment report that I realise how things have changed and I am no longer the fit and healthy 18 year old I once was. Reading the report really brought a tear to my eye, it was hard to comprehend that the report was about me. 'Such as life and all it's stages woman work while men spend their wages' comes to mind, I often hear my Mother saying that. Thing's can always be worse right.
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