Tag Archives: Multiple Sclerosis
Norfolk ex-soldier with multiple sclerosis having to sell family home to pay care bill
West Norfolk pensioners pay thousands towards care bill for ex-Royal Artillery officer who served in Northern Ireland
by Donna Semmens Thursday, May 10, 2012
7:36 AM
Tim Sudbury who has MS and his wife Marion, at their home in Walpole St Peter which they are having to leave because of a battle with Norfolk County Council over care fees. Picture: Matthew Usher.
The financial struggles facing the elderly and disabled were shown last night after a former soldier suffering from multiple sclerosis said he would have to sell his family home of 30 years to pay his annual care bills.
Cash care system should be paying off
It’s been a bad week for the caring reputation of the state.
Lesley Riddoch:
Published on Monday 30 April 2012 00:00
A scheme exists for disabled, old or longterm sick to order their own care but many councils make it hard to use, writes Lesley Riddoch
It’s been a bad week for the caring reputation of the state.
A Sunday paper carried the story of a Scottish multiple sclerosis sufferer bedridden for two years after being discharged from hospital with bed sores. The 56-year-old Gourock woman was given a specially adapted bed (crammed into her own dining room) but no cure, compensation, physiotherapy or apparent caring support from anyone but her 80-year-old mother.
Brave Lindsay gives hope to other MS sufferers
At just 32 years old, Lindsay was struck down with Multiple Sclerosis (MS).
Published on Saturday 28 April 2012 11:06
Lindsay Moore
TWENTY years ago Lindsay Moore was accepted into a prestigious dancing college in London.
Today she sits in a wheelchair completely dependant on her carers and unable to even feed herself.
At just 32 years old, Lindsay was struck down with Multiple Sclerosis (MS).
Twelve months later, after beginning to get her head around the diagnosis,
Lindsay, who dreamed of being a professional dancer, was told she had primary-progressive MS – the most aggressive form of the condition.
The second sickening blow meant within two years she was confined to a wheelchair, unable to even complete the most simple of tasks without help.
