Tag Archives: Norfolk
Anosmia: Norfolk clinic helps those without a sense of smell
Imagine a world where you have no sense of smell.
By Martin Barber BBC News, Norfolk
Sarah Page just wants to sense the comforting smell of her boyfriend Andy and other everyday pleasuresImagine a world where you have no sense of smell.
The aromas of a morning coffee, fresh flowers, clean washing, newly baked bread or perhaps the comforting scent of loved ones – all gone.
That world is very real to an estimated three million people in the UK who spend their lives with no sense of smell – a condition known as anosmia.
It can lead to life-threatening situations, isolation, depression and a loss of interest in food as 80% of what we taste comes from smell. The common cold is one of a number of causes.
MS Information Afternoon
MS Information Afternoon – North Norfolk
Saturday 3rd November 2012
at Pinewood Park Leisure Centre, Holt Road, Upper Sheringham, Norfolk NR26 8TU
1.00pm to 4.00pm
hosted by
The MS Society North Norfolk Branch
You are invited to join us to hear about the wide range of support and
service available for local people affected by MS.
Cancer patient loses benefits after DWP lists her as dead.
Friday 2 November 2012
KING’S LYNN: Cancer patient loses benefits after DWP lists her as dead.
Eileen Callaby is angry that her benefits were stopped after the DWP thought she was dead.
Weeks after surviving a cancer operation, a patient received a letter stating that her benefits had been cancelled as she had died.
Eileen Callaby says her recovery from lung cancer is being hampered due to the financial worry created by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) stopping her benefits after mistakenly listing her as dead.
Mrs Callaby , 52, who lives with her son Peter in Queen Elizabeth Avenue, Gaywood, even had to visit Lynn Job Centre on Monday with her birth certificate to prove that she is alive.
She is waiting for to start chemotherapy after having sections of her lung removed in September.
Mrs Callaby is calling for improvements in the DWP after section failed to communicate with another that she was alive.
She said: “I don’t understand where it came from that I had died.
