Don.Blair@p3.f869.n681.z3.fidonet.org (Don Blair) (12/05/90)
Index Number: 12209 G'Day.. I'm glad your back as I have been keeping an eye out for Msg's To and From Ya.. Sorry to hear you've just had fatigue symptom's.. It is fairly common among MS victims.. I get it if I overexert myself and tend to take it real easy to avoid it as much as possible.. In fact that is the main reason I applied for a disabled parking permit.. Most of the time I don't really need it but on a Hot day having to park in a space too far from the shops causes me havoc.. By the time I get to the shops I am dragging my leg something chronic and feel like I've just come out of a clothes dryer or something! By the way.. I'm ANGRY too. Not because someone hassled me for taking a disab. park as was your case.. But because when my permit arrived in the post, there was a notice with it. Partly it read.. 'I have read your application for a permit and <I> don't consider that you should have a Class 2/4 license. (motorcycle and truck)' I would not use them anymore anyway, BUT I am annoyed that this puckey little public servant, who has not even met me, passes this judgement down.. He/She also demands I go for a driver assesment to keep my Car license.. Get this! On the 19th of December, in the City.. My wife was furious and rang to try and change the asessment to January. She explained that she is quite able bodied and would not think of going anywhere near the city so close to Xmas.. Their short, sharp reply was NO. If he doesn't attend the assesment on the 19th, we will cancel his license... Boy am I ANGRY!! I'd like to get a hold of some of those WE's and I's and give them a piece of MY mind.. (even though it may be melting..) :=) Lucky the same department doesn't know I have a motorboat license and a diver's permit.. (that I also no longer use).. Or they'd want them too. Anyway.. I've calmed myself a bit now and let the Alpha waves settle down. So if I don't catch ya B4. Merry Xmas to you and everyone else in the Echo. Don.. -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!3!681!869.3!Don.Blair Internet: Don.Blair@p3.f869.n681.z3.fidonet.org
Aaron.Feldman@f204.n260.z1.fidonet.org (Aaron Feldman) (12/13/90)
Index Number: 12465 Dear Don, I can certainly relate to your predicament. As the old saying goes G-d save us from the "do-gooders" of the world. I feel I am always taking a risk in revealing my condition, for example I was told at the local MS association here there was an agency that could assess me for hand controls. So I checked it out and found they wanted to do a full assessment and give the results to the NYS motor vechilce dept. so I decided perhaps my leg was better than my arms and opted to pass that one up. I think most of us are well aware of our limitations within outside intervention. Also applying for jobs I found several small companies just come out and say they couldn't afford and hire me because of the higher rate for insurance they would occur just by having me on the grounds. Also I have no insurance now where I work because my employer (who knows my condition) says they can't afford a health policy on me so it is up to me to purchase it. And on it goes. I know the disability act has helped some people but sometimes it all seems to backfire. Don, have a blessed Holiday season. Peace/Shalom to you and to All, aaron -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!260!204!Aaron.Feldman Internet: Aaron.Feldman@f204.n260.z1.fidonet.org
Chris.Brown@f113.n163.z1.fidonet.org (Chris Brown) (12/14/90)
Index Number: 12474 In Canada it would be discriminatory for an employer to refuse to insure an employee on grounds of disability. Do you know if your state laws say anything about this? Do you hace to appease your employer to keep your job? Is that wise in the long run? -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!163!113!Chris.Brown Internet: Chris.Brown@f113.n163.z1.fidonet.org
Chris.Brown@f223.n163.z1.fidonet.org (Chris Brown) (01/08/91)
Index Number: 12697 What's even more ironic is that most researchers who've looked into it say the Canadian Health system is cheaper and better because it's public, not more expensive. I know what it's like to have to balance realities with preferred realities, to keep a job rather than to have full and equal rights from the employer. And it is not just small companies that act this way. Several large corporations, including such enlightened institutions as the publicly owned Canadian Broadcorping Castration, (whoops, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) were recently fingered by the CanadianHumanRights Commission as discriminating in employment practices against persons with disabilities. (they immediately produced a bunch of patronizing shows about disabilities, but have not, to my knowledge, changed their hiring practices.) -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!163!223!Chris.Brown Internet: Chris.Brown@f223.n163.z1.fidonet.org
Aaron.Feldman@f207.n260.z1.fidonet.org (Aaron Feldman) (01/09/91)
Index Number: 12769 People keep telling me that it is my fault that I don't have a "good job" for their understanding of the Disability Act in the USA is that if you go to an employer and tell them you are disabled that automatically they will hire you. The reasons are twofold 1. tax break for the company and 2. fear of a law suit if they do not hire. I didn't understand the act to read like this but this is what I am told. I am frequently asked "Why just didn't you tell them you have MS and then they would have had to hire you?" I do have a question though *who* determines if you are disabled? Is it the physican or the government? Do you carry a little note with you to a future employer that says "he's disabled"? JUst strikes me as funny, as in peculiar, sometimes. Take care and Shalom, Aaron -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!260!207!Aaron.Feldman Internet: Aaron.Feldman@f207.n260.z1.fidonet.org