#accessibility - Shift.ms

8 Mar 2025 09:30

Accessibility?

In the last few years I get around with or on wheels due to MS disability, so I need to know about accessibility. And I don’t know if it’s just us dog loving Brits but I started to notice a strange phenomenon sometime last year when checking out accessibility of venues. Here’s my rant about it from ...

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@MissMoona

23 Jan 2017 12:59Last reply 23 Jan 2017 21:58

Lack of accessibility :(

I had an appointment today with the MS team, they were going to talk about how to self injection and etc. But unfortunately my morning appointment at 9am was cancelled due to no interpreter. They had an opening at 2pm which they confirm an interpreter will turn up. But on my arrival, I found out the...

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@Yorete

1 Mar 2023 09:42 EditedLast reply 19 Sep 2024 15:59

Your MS patient pack - I got your back 😄

Hello my fellow MSers, I thought it would be useful to do a MS patient pack. You know my experience has been the NHS leaving me to die and then bully me. No one bullies me & Londrina! So check this out- Listen you are disabled, you have MS and depression lives with us please deny it BUT you are ...

London, United Kingdom

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@HeidiHelps

19 Feb 2024 19:26Last reply 20 Feb 2024 13:21

Adapting to Existential Anxiety with MS

“If there is meaning in life at all, there must be meaning in suffering,” (Viktor Frankl. 1946. Man’s Search for Meaning). Of the three components of existential anxiety number 2: anxiety related to loss of meaning in life, is the one that I see most when I communicate with people who struggle with...

Kamloops, Canada

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@Hannah_ODonnell

11 Dec 2023 17:17Last reply 11 Dec 2023 19:24

Holidays and struggles

I’m away at the moment with my partner. Munich is lovely and incredibly accessible. The people are kind to let me use staff lifts if they’re closer etc. I found the same in Crete which has such accessible beaches. The problem is even with all this accessibility I feel sad and frustrated. I am frustr...

Munchen, Germany

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@grant

26 May 2023 11:34

World Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Day on Tuesday 30th May 2023

Join us at the London Stock Exchange for the formal Market Close ceremony and panel discussion or join us virtually for the panel discussion at 16:45. The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Accessibility Network and LSEG Issuer Services are pleased to invite you to attend this Market Close ceremon...

@WinchesterMark

16 Aug 2022 10:23Last reply 17 May 2023 16:42

'Thing's' you can get in the Uk 2022 due to MS

I thought I’d post something, that when I was originally diagnosed, would have definitely helped me dealing with the whole sh*t show that is life with MS, and how to at least make it at least a little bit easier. Don’t get me wrong I’m no MS suffering martin lewis (the irony been by nature Im very...

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@Amunet60

17 Apr 2023 16:07Last reply 4 May 2023 19:58

Socialising...???

My husband and I live in Cardiff, but don’t really know anyone here. We were more or less housebound from 2011-2019 due to illness. Then we shielded ourselves for a year because of Covid (and still got infected!!!). My husband has Secondary Progressive MS. I have ME/CFS (I'm maintaining 50% improv...

Cardiff, United Kingdom

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@HeidiHelps

13 Dec 2022 00:17Last reply 13 Dec 2022 07:26

Wheelchair restrictions

“If there is meaning in life at all, there must be meaning in suffering,” (Viktor Frankl. 1946. Man’s Search for Meaning). Of the three components of existential anxiety number 2: anxiety related to loss of meaning in life, is the one that I see most when I communicate with people who struggle with ...

Kamloops, Canada

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@BillySmith

3 Dec 2021 12:56Last reply 7 Dec 2021 22:19

Happy International Day of Persons with Disabilities 💚

The UN is calling on governments and campaigners to prioritise disabled inclusivity after COVID made many of us feel left behind. How would you like to see our society increase accessibility, and dismantle barriers for people with disabilities?

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