Neighbor is living her best life on Disability with "Long Covid"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Woah. I guess in your woRLD, OP, disabled people are only allowed to… sit home by themselves and be “disabled”? What does that look like to you? Sad, lonely and housebound?

The actual answer is that a disability doesn’t necessarily preclude living a happy and healthy life. It just means that to do that, you may need accommodations that some employers are not willing or able to extend.

Maybe your neighbour still has to attend many appointments per week with RTs, physiotherapists, primary care team, pain control team. Perhaps before and after those tennis games, she needs extra rest, medication, pain control, etc. Also, not every tennis game is at the level of Steffi Graf. Disabled people play all kinds of sports.

As far as vacation, I’m not sure what is your point. People with disabilities do get to go on vacation. One of my dearest friends, a senior woman without had polio as a child and has significant physical limitations, has travelled the world, including some exotic location. She travels with her fairly significant limitations in mind.

As far as book club and the like… do you feel that people with disabilities should be hermit shut ins with no brains, hobbies, or friends?

People with disabilities are able to, and should be encouraged to, live healthy, active, and fulfilling lives.

All of this. DCUM has always been hatefully ableist. This post is typical of the general DCUM mentality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Woah. I guess in your woRLD, OP, disabled people are only allowed to… sit home by themselves and be “disabled”? What does that look like to you? Sad, lonely and housebound?

The actual answer is that a disability doesn’t necessarily preclude living a happy and healthy life. It just means that to do that, you may need accommodations that some employers are not willing or able to extend.

Maybe your neighbour still has to attend many appointments per week with RTs, physiotherapists, primary care team, pain control team. Perhaps before and after those tennis games, she needs extra rest, medication, pain control, etc. Also, not every tennis game is at the level of Steffi Graf. Disabled people play all kinds of sports.

As far as vacation, I’m not sure what is your point. People with disabilities do get to go on vacation. One of my dearest friends, a senior woman without had polio as a child and has significant physical limitations, has travelled the world, including some exotic location. She travels with her fairly significant limitations in mind.

As far as book club and the like… do you feel that people with disabilities should be hermit shut ins with no brains, hobbies, or friends?

People with disabilities are able to, and should be encouraged to, live healthy, active, and fulfilling lives.

All of this. DCUM has always been hatefully ableist. This post is typical of the general DCUM mentality.

I don’t think it’s ableist to question why someone with long COVID and presumably compromised lungs would be playing tennis and flying 10 hour flights to Italy . It seems to me germ hubs like airplanes /airports are the last place I’d want to be if I had long COVID

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Woah. I guess in your woRLD, OP, disabled people are only allowed to… sit home by themselves and be “disabled”? What does that look like to you? Sad, lonely and housebound?

The actual answer is that a disability doesn’t necessarily preclude living a happy and healthy life. It just means that to do that, you may need accommodations that some employers are not willing or able to extend.

Maybe your neighbour still has to attend many appointments per week with RTs, physiotherapists, primary care team, pain control team. Perhaps before and after those tennis games, she needs extra rest, medication, pain control, etc. Also, not every tennis game is at the level of Steffi Graf. Disabled people play all kinds of sports.

As far as vacation, I’m not sure what is your point. People with disabilities do get to go on vacation. One of my dearest friends, a senior woman without had polio as a child and has significant physical limitations, has travelled the world, including some exotic location. She travels with her fairly significant limitations in mind.

As far as book club and the like… do you feel that people with disabilities should be hermit shut ins with no brains, hobbies, or friends?

People with disabilities are able to, and should be encouraged to, live healthy, active, and fulfilling lives.

All of this. DCUM has always been hatefully ableist. This post is typical of the general DCUM mentality.

I don’t think it’s ableist to question why someone with long COVID and presumably compromised lungs would be playing tennis and flying 10 hour flights to Italy . It seems to me germ hubs like airplanes /airports are the last place I’d want to be if I had long COVID

Presumably nothing. No one knows what the long covid effects are that she’s dealing with. Again, ableist assumptions here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mind your own business. Disability is not easy to get.

It's actually incredibly easy to get. Washington Post wrote about it a few years ago. There were a few people who claimed they couldn't work but were traveling the country to follow Trump around his rallies lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Woah. I guess in your woRLD, OP, disabled people are only allowed to… sit home by themselves and be “disabled”? What does that look like to you? Sad, lonely and housebound?

The actual answer is that a disability doesn’t necessarily preclude living a happy and healthy life. It just means that to do that, you may need accommodations that some employers are not willing or able to extend.

Maybe your neighbour still has to attend many appointments per week with RTs, physiotherapists, primary care team, pain control team. Perhaps before and after those tennis games, she needs extra rest, medication, pain control, etc. Also, not every tennis game is at the level of Steffi Graf. Disabled people play all kinds of sports.

As far as vacation, I’m not sure what is your point. People with disabilities do get to go on vacation. One of my dearest friends, a senior woman without had polio as a child and has significant physical limitations, has travelled the world, including some exotic location. She travels with her fairly significant limitations in mind.

As far as book club and the like… do you feel that people with disabilities should be hermit shut ins with no brains, hobbies, or friends?

People with disabilities are able to, and should be encouraged to, live healthy, active, and fulfilling lives.

+1
People like OP are infuriating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Woah. I guess in your woRLD, OP, disabled people are only allowed to… sit home by themselves and be “disabled”? What does that look like to you? Sad, lonely and housebound?

The actual answer is that a disability doesn’t necessarily preclude living a happy and healthy life. It just means that to do that, you may need accommodations that some employers are not willing or able to extend.

Maybe your neighbour still has to attend many appointments per week with RTs, physiotherapists, primary care team, pain control team. Perhaps before and after those tennis games, she needs extra rest, medication, pain control, etc. Also, not every tennis game is at the level of Steffi Graf. Disabled people play all kinds of sports.

As far as vacation, I’m not sure what is your point. People with disabilities do get to go on vacation. One of my dearest friends, a senior woman without had polio as a child and has significant physical limitations, has travelled the world, including some exotic location. She travels with her fairly significant limitations in mind.

As far as book club and the like… do you feel that people with disabilities should be hermit shut ins with no brains, hobbies, or friends?

People with disabilities are able to, and should be encouraged to, live healthy, active, and fulfilling lives.

All of this. DCUM has always been hatefully ableist. This post is typical of the general DCUM mentality.

I don’t think it’s ableist to question why someone with long COVID and presumably compromised lungs would be playing tennis and flying 10 hour flights to Italy . It seems to me germ hubs like airplanes /airports are the last place I’d want to be if I had long COVID

What, please explain, “should” they be doing?

Do you view someone post COVID differently than someone who has had a heart attack? Someone with CP or another CF?

[Anonymous]

It's shocking that so many people now think it is OK to defraud their employer (and other members of society who work to support a whole array of people freeloading on government benefits).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's shocking that so many people now think it is OK to defraud their employer (and other members of society who work to support a whole array of people freeloading on government benefits).

You think not being able to work and live normally day to day due to physican confirmed Illness is “defrauding”?

Also, tell me about how you feel about healthy people posting online during work hours?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Long COVID is a scam

Too bad that the leading medical journals and scientific evidence disagree with you.

Whether the neighbor in question is a crook is another question, but long covid is a thing.

There are clinics at highly reputable medical centers that treat nothing else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Woah. I guess in your woRLD, OP, disabled people are only allowed to… sit home by themselves and be “disabled”? What does that look like to you? Sad, lonely and housebound?

The actual answer is that a disability doesn’t necessarily preclude living a happy and healthy life. It just means that to do that, you may need accommodations that some employers are not willing or able to extend.

Maybe your neighbour still has to attend many appointments per week with RTs, physiotherapists, primary care team, pain control team. Perhaps before and after those tennis games, she needs extra rest, medication, pain control, etc. Also, not every tennis game is at the level of Steffi Graf. Disabled people play all kinds of sports.

As far as vacation, I’m not sure what is your point. People with disabilities do get to go on vacation. One of my dearest friends, a senior woman without had polio as a child and has significant physical limitations, has travelled the world, including some exotic location. She travels with her fairly significant limitations in mind.

As far as book club and the like… do you feel that people with disabilities should be hermit shut ins with no brains, hobbies, or friends?

People with disabilities are able to, and should be encouraged to, live healthy, active, and fulfilling lives.

+1
This thread shows an utter lack of understanding of what is disability. OP and others want to see the stereotype of only physical disability and that's it. After a bad car accident I was in I had severe cognitive issues that left me barely - and I mean barely - able to do my job. But I hid it and masked and made mistakes and tried to power through and it was awful. I can see that if there was no hope of recovery, I would have absolutely thrown in the towel. But I could read fluffy novels and play tennis if I wanted to. I just couldn't remember my colleague's name whom I worked with for five years, or remember how the Zoom functions worked, etc.

Well isn’t that convenient!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d highly doubt the woman is getting social security disability but federal disability is easy to come by. You get 60% of your pay the first year and 40% each year thereafter until retirement age, then it rolls into retirement like you’ve been working the whole time. You can get another job but if you make more than 80% of your previous income they consider you recovered. So basically you can medically retire from the feds and make more money than if you’d kept that job. The only criteria for the fed retirement is that you are unable to perform the duties of your job and that they can’t find you a comparable job that you’d be able to work.

I had a friend with a legitimate disability who contacted a few lawyers to help with the paperwork- one didn’t even ask about his disability and basically announced that he was was the guy to hire if he wanted to retire. Ultimately that friend ended up getting another job in the government he was capable of doing. Another person I know was on a term appointment and managed to finagle disability retirement. She’s a total scumbag though and just didn’t like working.

If true, what a scam.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's shocking that so many people now think it is OK to defraud their employer (and other members of society who work to support a whole array of people freeloading on government benefits).

You think not being able to work and live normally day to day due to physican confirmed Illness is “defrauding”?

Also, tell me about how you feel about healthy people posting online during work hours?

Both are dishonest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Woah. I guess in your woRLD, OP, disabled people are only allowed to… sit home by themselves and be “disabled”? What does that look like to you? Sad, lonely and housebound?

The actual answer is that a disability doesn’t necessarily preclude living a happy and healthy life. It just means that to do that, you may need accommodations that some employers are not willing or able to extend.

Maybe your neighbour still has to attend many appointments per week with RTs, physiotherapists, primary care team, pain control team. Perhaps before and after those tennis games, she needs extra rest, medication, pain control, etc. Also, not every tennis game is at the level of Steffi Graf. Disabled people play all kinds of sports.

As far as vacation, I’m not sure what is your point. People with disabilities do get to go on vacation. One of my dearest friends, a senior woman without had polio as a child and has significant physical limitations, has travelled the world, including some exotic location. She travels with her fairly significant limitations in mind.

As far as book club and the like… do you feel that people with disabilities should be hermit shut ins with no brains, hobbies, or friends?

People with disabilities are able to, and should be encouraged to, live healthy, active, and fulfilling lives.

+1
This thread shows an utter lack of understanding of what is disability. OP and others want to see the stereotype of only physical disability and that's it. After a bad car accident I was in I had severe cognitive issues that left me barely - and I mean barely - able to do my job. But I hid it and masked and made mistakes and tried to power through and it was awful. I can see that if there was no hope of recovery, I would have absolutely thrown in the towel. But I could read fluffy novels and play tennis if I wanted to. I just couldn't remember my colleague's name whom I worked with for five years, or remember how the Zoom functions worked, etc.

Well isn’t that convenient!

DP, but it doesn’t sound convenient to me.

Then again, I have a friend with TBI who can bike 100 miles, but can’t make a sandwich, name his grandchildren, or navigate those 100 miles by himself. He can do it, enjoy it, but guess which he’d pick if he could? Especially since he actually knows he can’t name his grandchildren?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Long COVID is a scam

Too bad that the leading medical journals and scientific evidence disagree with you.

Whether the neighbor in question is a crook is another question, but long covid is a thing.

There are clinics at highly reputable medical centers that treat nothing else.

It's a good source of revenue for the center.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Woah. I guess in your woRLD, OP, disabled people are only allowed to… sit home by themselves and be “disabled”? What does that look like to you? Sad, lonely and housebound?

The actual answer is that a disability doesn’t necessarily preclude living a happy and healthy life. It just means that to do that, you may need accommodations that some employers are not willing or able to extend.

Maybe your neighbour still has to attend many appointments per week with RTs, physiotherapists, primary care team, pain control team. Perhaps before and after those tennis games, she needs extra rest, medication, pain control, etc. Also, not every tennis game is at the level of Steffi Graf. Disabled people play all kinds of sports.

As far as vacation, I’m not sure what is your point. People with disabilities do get to go on vacation. One of my dearest friends, a senior woman without had polio as a child and has significant physical limitations, has travelled the world, including some exotic location. She travels with her fairly significant limitations in mind.

As far as book club and the like… do you feel that people with disabilities should be hermit shut ins with no brains, hobbies, or friends?

People with disabilities are able to, and should be encouraged to, live healthy, active, and fulfilling lives.

+1
This thread shows an utter lack of understanding of what is disability. OP and others want to see the stereotype of only physical disability and that's it. After a bad car accident I was in I had severe cognitive issues that left me barely - and I mean barely - able to do my job. But I hid it and masked and made mistakes and tried to power through and it was awful. I can see that if there was no hope of recovery, I would have absolutely thrown in the towel. But I could read fluffy novels and play tennis if I wanted to. I just couldn't remember my colleague's name whom I worked with for five years, or remember how the Zoom functions worked, etc.

Well isn’t that convenient!

What exactly is convenient about this situation? Explain to me how any of this is "convenient?" Or do you just think TBI is funny?