job or not +scooby ( back problems lol )

just been reading about people out of work.
i was just wondering if there was anybody like me that cant work ( f**ked back)

i am on incapacity benefit (£318 every 2 weeks ) and i still run a scooby and the wife has a astra.

i find it hard to do what i want to on my car but i get there in the end just takes more looking for cheaper parts

the main thing i was wondering about is there anyone else able to run and mod there scoobys like me and if there is how do they do it.

mark78 wrote:

just been reading about people out of work.
i was just wondering if there was anybody like me that cant work ( f**ked back)

i am on incapacity benefit (£318 every 2 weeks ) and i still run a scooby and the wife has a astra.

i find it hard to do what i want to on my car but i get there in the end just takes more looking for cheaper parts

the main thing i was wondering about is there anyone else able to run and mod there scoobys like me and if there is how do they do it.

I have a fecked back (chronic sciatica) and could genuinely go on the sick but a choose to take the pain and go to work. I couldn't survive on sick pay

I couldn't survive on sick pay either not that I can't work but I do wonder sometimes that people seenu to be better off on benefits eg no rent or mortgage to pay ect. But I like the fact I graft for me dosh ( I know some people can't) and I couldn't watch Jeremy Kyle everyday lol.

I no some are bad and can't work but it would
Kill me stopping in everyday and no way I could run my car and afford the mods I want

byers wrote:

I no some are bad and can't work but it would
Kill me stopping in everyday and no way I could run my car and afford the mods I want

Comin from u that pokes chickens for an hour a day

I work 8 till 11 and watch telly all day and clean me car you just keep
Digging your roads up why I watch my 50 inch telly lol

byers wrote:

I work 8 till 11 and watch telly all day and clean me car you just keep
Digging your roads up why I watch my 50 inch telly lol

pmsl

well mate i,m new on here and just bought a standard wr1 and like you have a bad back...just had a cervical discetomy with fusion and canal wide,ing...basically remove 2 discs in back(neck) then wiiden my spinal canal where spinal cord runs metal cage in srewed to back bone where discs removed from metal plates above and below matal cage so i,m in the same boat lol

U must have coin to buy a wr1 I can't afford 1 and me and my lass work

I have this in my back and I can still manage to work ya lazy bastards

jonny i wish there would do some thing for my back then i could get back to work i would love to work again the only thing at the moment i get a lot of days that i cant get out of bed till the morning pain killers kick in

yes mate i have a bit but i,m a self employed gas fitter but 9 weeks ago had the operation..my wifes also a teacher for durham county council...if i dont go to work i dont get paid its simples also have been trading cars and vans for last 15 years thats how i met johnny gav when he used to do a bit lol...and cant get sick money from dhss..looks a bit like mine that johnny but mines a 2 level one in cervical c5-c6 c6-c7 due to spinal cord compression lol is yours lower or upper??

Mine is lower mate, took me a good year after me op before I would say I was able to not think about it, had it done between Xmas and new year in 2002/3, still have bother when it's cold but nothing compared to the pain I was in before hand.

I know what yas are going though, wouldn't wish it on anyone.

Jonny Gav wrote:

I have this in my back and I can still manage to work ya lazy bastards

Fook me - Jonny Terminator Is that a RCM 14mm stud conversion?

I winced when you were telling me about it but thats an impressive bit of scaffholding mate!

you must beep like fook going through air port security

Surgical steel duznt set the metal detectors off in airports etc, after a few months in the body

Not steel mate, I got mine done by BUPA so I got titanium, keeps me weight down

I did ask the sergion if I could have ademantium like wolverine but I just got a blank look, the mustn't get x-men in Mumbai

I've got spinal problems too - had cervical anterior discectomy C5/C6 & C6/C7 with fusion and titanium cage put in.

Also have problems with my lumbar spine (which they are reluctant to touch or it could leave me in a wheelchair) and have regular epidurals etc via the pain management unit along with my boat load of medications (have more than Boots have on their shelves I think at times and I'm sure i'm beginning to rattle lol).

Also have alot of other medical problems which I had previously to the spinal problems.

I lost my job after working there for 11.5 years for being off sick!! - successfully hauled them over the legal coals though and they settled out of court

You get no medals for working and suffering, although it is very boring being at home all the time - especially when there's not much you can be doing while you are at home!

However, you do feel 'normal' going out to work and it does make you feel better at times because you've made the effort and managed.

It's down to personal choice at the end of the day .. but you would qualify for back to work grants etc and the extra £40 a week for a year if you do go back - the jobcentre have disability specialists/pathways advisors to help advise you with what you can do etc to get back into work if that's what you choose.

Not quite sure how your money is made up .. so can't help with what else you might be able to get help with :-)

Jonny Gav wrote:

Not steel mate, I got mine done by BUPA so I got titanium, keeps me weight down

I did ask the sergion if I could have ademantium like wolverine but I just got a blank look, the mustn't get x-men in Mumbai

you will need titanium running that bhp!!

We sound like a right load of old fogies on here don't we lol

Best of it was I woke up with my neck like that .. woke up at 5.30am when Paul went out to work and was fine, went back to sleep .. woke up at 7.30am for me to go to work and couldn't move .. very scary and bloody painful too.

Took them over a year at the Drs to give me an MRI and then when they did it was treated as an emergency!

I had even been paying for physiotherapy and manipulation privately myself to try and ease the pain but that could have paralysed me from the neck down if the prolapsed disc had touched my spinal cord any more than it was already!! - I later found out.

Still get a lot of pain and have permanent nerve damage/weakness in my arms from it - first op to remove c6/c7 and then had to have a second op to remove c5/c6 which they'd left hoping it wouldn't cause any problems .. but it did

snap mate sounds like we have excact same probs mt disc was touching cord c5-c6 c6-c7 had them both removed with the titanium cage fusion and plates above and below cage..i turned the lumber discectomy down 4 weeks ago due to me still having the same pain,pins and needles dropping things etc...think this nesf site should get renamed to back problems site lol

Mrs_Mid_Life_Crisis wrote:

I've got spinal problems too - had cervical anterior discectomy C5/C6 & C6/C7 with fusion and titanium cage put in.

Also have problems with my lumbar spine (which they are reluctant to touch or it could leave me in a wheelchair) and have regular epidurals etc via the pain management unit along with my boat load of medications (have more than Boots have on their shelves I think at times and I'm sure i'm beginning to rattle lol).

Also have alot of other medical problems which I had previously to the spinal problems.

I lost my job after working there for 11.5 years for being off sick!! - successfully hauled them over the legal coals though and they settled out of court

You get no medals for working and suffering, although it is very boring being at home all the time - especially when there's not much you can be doing while you are at home!

However, you do feel 'normal' going out to work and it does make you feel better at times because you've made the effort and managed.

It's down to personal choice at the end of the day .. but you would qualify for back to work grants etc and the extra £40 a week for a year if you do go back - the jobcentre have disability specialists/pathways advisors to help advise you with what you can do etc to get back into work if that's what you choose.

Not quite sure how your money is made up .. so can't help with what else you might be able to get help with :-)

been like this for 5 years now but i did try to go back to work, got the £40 a week n other bits of them but after 8 months of work my back got worse i got sacked ( stuck in bed for 2 weeks) they are trying me on loads of different pain killers 1 of my kitchen cabinets is full just of pain killers. i have been for a mri n its come back i have 4/5 slip discs ( some hitting spinal cord) n something else thats not good ( big words ) the DR is just trying everything before i puts me under the knife

Fook me it's not nesf it's holby city

byers wrote:

Fook me it's not nesf it's holby city

lol sounds like it doesnt it

Least you all have comfortable cars