From: "Bruce Atchison - author" <batchison@mcsnet.ca>
To: "Brian Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Blind burn out
Date: February 27, 2009 7:39 PM

Hello folks;

I agree with brian. I tried for years to rise through the ranks of the
government but it proved too difficult. I'm on disability now but CPP says
I have to find some sort of gainful employment or they could suspend my
pension. I've tried freelance writing at the suggestion of a work
counsellor but it requires a lot of reading. I've written 2 books but
promoting them locally is a real money loser. My first memoir did well but
the one about the blind school bombed. I keep active each day, writing
another book and the occasional freelance article, but there are times when
I wonder why I bother. With the worsening economic climate, I'm afraid that
the government will decide to keep the perks for their senior members but
cut off my pension that I worked so hard for.

It's good that there is this support group. Able-bodied folks can't
understand how it feels to be reminded daily that one isn't normal. I even
had one woman say that she envied me since I could lay around all day. If
only she could see how many hours I spend searching the internet for
information and writing my books. Then there's the time wasted trying to
get Windows to cooperate. My DOS PCs are a whole lot more reliable so I do
my serious writing with WordPerfect 5.1. I'm sure I know more about
computers than that woman does too. I'm starting to feel like a spring that
has been compressed so long that it won't expand again.

Sincerely,

Bruce Atchison - author of Deliverance from Jericho (Six Years in a Blind
School) and When a Man Loves a Rabbit ((Learning and Living With Bunnies).

http://www.bookstream.biz/cgi-bin/bookstream/bookstore.cgi?overlord=Details&store_id=132

http://www.bookstream.biz/cgi-bin/bookstream/bookstore.cgi?overlord=Details&store_id=102

And there's more where that came from folks.

Well, the government over here are privatising the employment finding
service in 2013, and disabled people will have to do employment orientated
activities and the company who is trying to find them work will be paid on
results. Sounds like the workhouse under another name to me.

Doctors will have no say apparently, unless they can prove its dangerous to
their patients health. Private doctors will be used.
Brian

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Brian Gaff....Note, this account does not accept Bcc: email.
graphics are great, but the blind can't hear them
Email: briang1@blueyonder.co.uk
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"Bruce Atchison - author" <batchison@mcsnet.ca> wrote in message
news:Sy2ql.15347$l71.1525@newsfe23.iad...
> From: "Bruce Atchison - author" <batchison@mcsnet.ca>
> To: "Brian Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: Blind burn out
> Date: February 27, 2009 7:39 PM
>
> Hello folks;
>
> I agree with brian. I tried for years to rise through the ranks of the
> government but it proved too difficult. I'm on disability now but CPP
> says
> I have to find some sort of gainful employment or they could suspend my
> pension. I've tried freelance writing at the suggestion of a work
> counsellor but it requires a lot of reading. I've written 2 books but
> promoting them locally is a real money loser. My first memoir did well
> but
> the one about the blind school bombed. I keep active each day, writing
> another book and the occasional freelance article, but there are times
> when
> I wonder why I bother. With the worsening economic climate, I'm afraid
> that
> the government will decide to keep the perks for their senior members but
> cut off my pension that I worked so hard for.
>
> It's good that there is this support group. Able-bodied folks can't
> understand how it feels to be reminded daily that one isn't normal. I
> even
> had one woman say that she envied me since I could lay around all day. If
> only she could see how many hours I spend searching the internet for
> information and writing my books. Then there's the time wasted trying to
> get Windows to cooperate. My DOS PCs are a whole lot more reliable so I
> do
> my serious writing with WordPerfect 5.1. I'm sure I know more about
> computers than that woman does too. I'm starting to feel like a spring
> that
> has been compressed so long that it won't expand again.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Bruce Atchison - author of Deliverance from Jericho (Six Years in a Blind
> School) and When a Man Loves a Rabbit ((Learning and Living With Bunnies).
>
> http://www.bookstream.biz/cgi-bin/bookstream/bookstore.cgi?overlord=Details&store_id=132
>
> http://www.bookstream.biz/cgi-bin/bookstream/bookstore.cgi?overlord=Details&store_id=102
>
> And there's more where that came from folks.
>