A tip to alleviate acid reflux (GERD), in COPD…

…or GORD, in the UK. The best tip I can offer you is – sleep on your left side. I prefer to sleep on my right, and, if acid reflux (aka GERD), is going to happen, it’ll happen then. Usually, it happens in the morning, after my first batch of meds, which I take at [...]

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A bed wedge for COPD…

Where to buy a bed wedge for COPD? Depending where you live, there are many choices, and some extremely high prices. Like pretty much everything I buy, except food, I got mine online. There are two types of wedge; adjustable, metal-framed, and foam. I’d advise against a metal-framed, adjustable one – the design sucks and [...]

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DLA application help for ME/CFS sufferers…

That appeared in my Google stats on my blog and is probably worth giving its own post. ME-specific help can he had from ME support organisations, in the UK this is primarily Action for ME amd the ME Association . Help in filling in the long and, if ME “brain-fog” strikes, complex form, can be [...]

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Dangerous bus route – the Prenton Circular…

The Prenton Circular bus route, here in Birkenhead, is dangerous and potentially lethal – this, my recent experience with it, is why:- m Yesterday (Monday, January 26), I boarded the inbound 11.55(ish), 90 bus (Prenton Circular), not far from home. I’m disabled, and walk with difficulty and with the aid of a crutch; I also [...]

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Terminating Incapacity Benefit voluntarily…

A question from the Google section of my blog stats this morning:- “How to cancel my Incapacity Benefit?” It’s quite simple.

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Jonathan Ross all over again…

Oh god – here we go again. The News of the World and the Mail on Sunday/Daily Mail are pillorying Jonathan Ross again. No surprise there then. Trouble is, this time, they’re getting their knickers in a twist over nothing.

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Tales of the Supernatural – the beginning…

When I wrote my Supernatural Tales? posts, it struck me that, throughout my life, weirdness has featured – and sometimes dominated. Come back with me, if you will, to the bitterly cold winter of 1985/86… But first, a caveat. Most genuine supernatural experiences are remarkably free of chain-rattling spectres, mysteriously blood-spattered walls, distant sobbing, and [...]

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Blue Monday – the reality…

Over the past week, the papers have been filled with the “fact” that last Monday was “officially” the most depressing day of the year. Dr Cliff Arnall actually has an equation to demonstrate this (that he also has an equation for the “happiest” day of the year, sponsored by Wall’s ice-cream, is a pretty good [...]

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English as she is wrote…

…or Bad Language Part 4. I was reading the Guardian this morning and I was struck – not for the first time – by the sloppy English usage that’s so prevalent these days in the paper. In the article “Bush bashed as satirists stick to familiar targets,” today, journalist Dan Glaister used “nemesis” in a [...]

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DLA at 65…

I get so many questions about this, I thought it was time to give it its own post, even though it’s covered elsewhere. If you are already 65 and getting DLA, then your entitlement

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