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Pete, please remove this if you don't think it's relevant.
My older sister is 46, was diagnosed with MS 11 years ago, and is can just about walk 5 - 10 paces with crutches or a zimmer frame.
She works full time as a civil servant, and has just been refused medical retirement, apparently because she is still managing to get to work every day. It seems that she needs to take 6-12 months off sick before she might get approved for medical retirement. She has to take medical retirement before she is 50.
I'm looking for places to go for advice and help on what she really needs to do, and the best way to approach it. She's very much a "play things by the book" person. As she can no longer hold a pen to write, there is no point in her trying to make phone calls, and I want to be able to give her a resume of information, rather than info overload.
She's just got herself into a lovely accessible ground floor flat, after nearly 8 months of living in a 5th floor flat with an intemittent lift failure, so she had become very down. Now that she's recovering I don't want her to get down about this too.
Thanks for any advice.
My older sister is 46, was diagnosed with MS 11 years ago, and is can just about walk 5 - 10 paces with crutches or a zimmer frame.
She works full time as a civil servant, and has just been refused medical retirement, apparently because she is still managing to get to work every day. It seems that she needs to take 6-12 months off sick before she might get approved for medical retirement. She has to take medical retirement before she is 50.
I'm looking for places to go for advice and help on what she really needs to do, and the best way to approach it. She's very much a "play things by the book" person. As she can no longer hold a pen to write, there is no point in her trying to make phone calls, and I want to be able to give her a resume of information, rather than info overload.
She's just got herself into a lovely accessible ground floor flat, after nearly 8 months of living in a 5th floor flat with an intemittent lift failure, so she had become very down. Now that she's recovering I don't want her to get down about this too.
Thanks for any advice.