Melbourne & Victoria
Ambulance Transfers – Another Option
I am on pain medication which require that I go to see my pain specialist every 2 months, come rain, hail or CFS/ME crashes. Since I also am on the “very severe” end of the CFS/ME scale, it was getting so it took me over a month to recover from the trip to the specialist.
One [...]
General Postal Voting
Many of those of us with CFS may have requested a postal vote for an election at one time or another when an election and one of those dreaded big CFS crashes came at the same time … But did you know that if you ring up the right person and fill out the right [...]
Victorian Resources
This section contains articles which have been written especially for my local CFS/ME Association’s Newsletter – Emerge – and which I have put on the net in case they can help others. These articles will be mostly helpful for people living in Victoria, Australia.
My ‘Surviving CFS’ series of articles pointed out resources specifically helpful [...]
Chronic Financial Stress
As if CFS didn’t mess up our plans for our lives enough already, there’s another CFS we have to deal with – Chronic Financial Stress. And like the real CFS, it can be difficult to cope with and tricky to treat. The good news is that there are lots of financial tips and things that [...]
Getting Practical Help
Council Services
Your local council probably provides home help and meals on wheels. These services are usually provided to the elderly but they are also available for the disabled and chronically ill. You will probably have to pay a token fee, usually less than $10 per hour, for the services.
Home help will come regularly during the [...]
The Victorian Aids & Equipment Program
Do you need rails to hold onto in the the shower? Would a wheelchair or scooter make your life easier? Do you need anything like this such as a shower stool or chair, or a keypad to open your door because you live alone and can’t get to it yourself? Is there anything else in [...]
Talking Books – A Useful Resource
What are talking books? They are fiction or non-fiction books – sometimes full-length and sometimes condensed or abridged – which have been narrated and the narration saved onto an audio tape, CD-ROM, or even directly onto a computer disk.
There are three main sources for talking books:
Your local library, and even your local bookshop, probably has [...]