Theres an article in todays Daily Mail stating that the government is planning that everyone applying for a blue badge will have to have a medical. What this would cost the country is anyones guess. Surely a GP's or consultants letter should be a better cheaper option.
http://www.dailymail.co....-taxpayer-46m-year.html
I do realise that there is alot of abuse of the badge but I have read some of the replies from readers and it does make my blood boil at some of their comments. Don't look disabled......having an expensive car (I never realised that you should have a certain sort of car to get a blue badge)...........walked off not limping etc etc.
I have got a form still sitting on my dresser in the dining room waiting for me to fill it in, been there for about three weeks. I don't need one all the time but on the days that my feet are hurting, well they hurt and every foot step is painful. There's a little box on the form to put the name of anyone you have seen at the hospital in the last 12 months about my condition. It's just not big enough to put the name of the consultant, specialist nurse, OT, Physio and Orthoptics man. Another section asks how far I can walk without pain, well when it hurts, every foot step is painful. Specialist nurse told me to put down how I am on my worst day, but I feel like that is cheating.
Husband is getting so fed up of me telling him to park near the doors and park with an empty space next to where I have to get out if my knees are hurting. But if I do apply for one I've got to get my head around the fact that I am at a stage that I need one. I am finding that hard to accept. I did make my mind up a few days ago to fill it in after I went shopping by myself and had parked the car and was hobbling to the supermarket, getting wet in the rain when a car parked in a disabled bay, a young woman got out and ran across the car park in her high heels (I know I shouldn't judge a book by its cover...........but in HIGH HEELS). I checked the car when I came out of the shop and sure enough it had a blue badge. I then had to hobble to the car with the shopping in the trolley, I knew if I had carried the carrier bags to the car my wrist would let me know later, then I had to hobble back with the trolley back to the shop, but after reading peoples comments today I am beginning to change my mind.
Paula
