DisabledAceSocialist

I made a post weeks ago about all the trouble I've been having with my prescriptions, the doctors and pharmacists complaining that I'm costing the NHS too much money and trying to reduce the amount and quality of my meds, not on health grounds, but purely on cost grounds, and the detrimental effect it was having on my health. Also being bullied into taking contraception, which I don't want or need.

I received help on here writing a letter to the GP, trying to get them to stop bullying me over contraception and give me the meds I need in the quantities I need. I just heard back from them, and the letter worked! They will continue to prescribe my migraine meds without insisting I take contraception, they will increase my dose of my other med to daily instead of trying to fob me off with only 8 a month, and they will go back to giving me enough eczema treatment.

Thanks so much for the help!

I'm making a post on mutual aid too, but sometimes I make posts on there, even up to three over a week or so, and get no response. I understand there are so many people needing help there and so I am making one here too for extra visibility. My last request on here asking for help with medical supplies didn't get a response, I really hope this one does.

A couple of people on here over the past few months have helped me out before, and I am so grateful. There is no way I could have managed without your help. For those who haven't seen my posts before, I'm in the UK and going through a disability benefit appeal. I've been unable to buy food due to lack of money and all the people who are supposed to help - the food bank, citizens advice, macmillan etc, haven't given me the help I need.

The food bank can take up to two weeks to access and then give only three days of "food," and the food mostly consists of tea, coffee, milk, sugar, doritos and similar things that are non-nutritious and non-filling. Organisations like macmillan and the citizens advice just keep fobbing me off and passing me to each other. No-one wants to take responsibility. The good social worker I had who used to help me moved to London and the social work department is now staffed by bureaucrats who do the bare minimum to get their paycheque. So I had no-one to help me until I found this site. I was starving for a while and ended up being diagnosed with several deficiencies but all they did was prescribe me iron and a few other supplements on the NHS. I still didn't get any food.

In fact I had thought I was going through an early menopause as my periods had slowed down so much it got to the stage I hadn't had one in months. But this month - after being able to eat normally for a while thanks to the help I've received on here - I got a normal period and realised that my periods had actually stopped due to malnutrition. Thanks to people on this site I am no longer amenorrheic.

I received a letter from the DWP (British benefit nazis) recently, saying that my benefit appeal is still in the queue, they have a backlog to get through before me. Which is their own fault, because they re-assess people too frequently. So this will be dragging on a while longer.

My grocery bills are also more expensive at the moment. I had foot surgery 5 weeks ago and I've been unable to wear shoes so I've had to order groceries for delivery, which costs more. I'm having another foot surgery on 24th April so it'll be like this for a while yet. I also need to use these vouchers for other things like toilet paper, literally everything I need.

As mentioned before, I would prefer not to take money because of the DWP. So if anyone is able to help me out with some food vouchers, I would be extremely grateful. Sainsburys supermarket gift cards are easy to order, and several supermarkets local to me are also on justeat. They can be ordered on various different ways and sent to my email address.

This site takes debit card, credit card and google pay:

https://www.sainsburysgiftcard.co.uk/

These sites take debit, credit card and paypal:

https://www.prezzee.uk/store/sainsburys-uk-gift-card/

https://www.prezzee.uk/store/just-eat-uk-gift-card/

This one takes crypto:

https://www.bitrefill.com/gb/en/gift-cards/sainsburys-in-store-digital-uk/

https://www.bitrefill.com/gb/en/gift-cards/just-eat-uk/

I would be so grateful for any help at all.

My landlady's dog was barking at the door this morning, so I opened it and there was a big brown, very skinny cockapoo-type dog out there. No idea how she got in, the garden is totally enclosed and the walls are at least 7 foot high. We checked the cctv in case someone had thrown her in but saw nothing. It's like she just materialised. We took her to the vet to see if she had a microchip and she does but they were unable to read it. They said we should call the local kennel to come and take her and now my landlady is waiting to hear back from them, but I'm worried her owners are neglectful or abusive, she's clearly starving and cried with terror when we took her to the vet. She seems to have a skin illness as well. I've checked online but no-one has reported her missing. I'm worried if she gets sent back to her owner she could end up being a breeding dog on a puppy farm or something, she looks so starved and neglected. we gave her some food and she wolfed it down instantly.

EDIT: Eventually with the microchip we found her vet. They told us the owner hadn't brought the dog for a check up for several years and that they had been concerned about the dog's welfare prior to that. They told us which road the owner lives on and gave us her phone number. we called and she checked outside and said her dog had returned. We checked in our garden and the dog was gone. So it looks like she went home of her own accord. However I am very concerned for her welfare. She's skin and bones, untreated skin condition and clearly in this cold weather her owners leave her locked outside for so long they don't even notice she's missing.

I tried to make a report to the RSPCA but without an address, they won't take a report. I asked the dog's vet to call the RSPCA to give them the owner's address (because they obvs won't give it to me) but they are being difficult about it and not even wanting to get involved that much. I feel I must do something to help this poor creature. Does anyone know how to find an address using only a mobile phone number?

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I'm making a post on mutual aid too, but last month I made two posts asking for help on there in the space of a week, and after getting no responses, made a post on here. I know mutual aid are inundated with requests and more so than usual at the moment, it seems. So I thought I'd ask on here again, as my last request on here enabled me to eat this month.

For those who don't know me yet, I'm currently having treatment for thyroid cancer and also recovering from a stroke (caused by the cancer treatment, which has left me partially sighted and learning to walk again). The DWP (people who run the British benefits system) in their infinite wisdom, decided at my last assessment to give me zero points (saying I'm fit to work and care for myself, despite multiple doctors letters proving otherwise) and stop my payments, I had to appeal. I have no money at all, actually negative money as I've maxxed out my overdraft along with other debts.

After this, I tried food banks but it is so time consuming and difficult to access them around here, I was still going hungry most of the time. I tried begging a Christian website for advice on Christian food aid, but they turned me away. I've shoplifted multiple times and tried selling my prescription meds in desperation.

Due to the inability to keep myself properly fed, I ended up being diagnosed with several vitamin and mineral deficiencies, but instead of giving me food this insane country decided to solve the problem by prescribing me supplements on the NHS! Meanwhile, I was still starving.

Then I found this place and you are the only people who have helped me over the past couple of months. I've been able to eat normally again because of your help, and it has made a huge difference to my life. I've made the food vouchers last as long as possible but now I have just a few days food left. I've decided to ask for help again now in case it takes multiple posts on here/mutual aid again, by which time I will have run out totally.

I'm too scared to accept actual money in case it gets me in trouble with the DWP. If anyone is able and willing to help, I would be extremely grateful for any food vouchers that can be used in the UK. I know sainsburys accept google pay, credit and debit cards and you don't have to be in the UK to buy their vouchers, you just pay for it and email it to the recipient: https://www.sainsburysgiftcard.co.uk/

If that's not convenient I will gladly accept any type of vouchers that can be used for food, another supermarket, justeat, amazon, anything. Thanks so much to anyone able to help.

Basically the story is this: in 1984 a German kid named Darius was taping a rock radio show. In 2007 he and his sister Lydia found the tape again, but were unable to identify one of the songs. So Lydia posted the song online.

For the next 17 years millions of people around the world searched and investigated, trying to find out what this song was. The song became known as "The most Mysterious song on the Internet," or "Like the Wind," as that's the first line in the song. The recording was old and not entirely clear in places, and people argued endlessly over what the lyrics actually were.

Multiple subreddits became devoted to the search for the band, and it spawned an entire genre called Lostwave. Many people devoted years of their lives to searching archives, not only online but searching through actual radio station archives and similar places, turning up in person and spending hours, days, weeks, months and eventually years of their lives searching for the band who created this masterpiece. Youtubers like Justin Whang made multiple videos documenting the search.

Even the radio station that originally broadcast the song got involved, trying to help but had no idea what the song was. It seemed a lost cause. People even started to believe the song had somehow crossed into our dimension from a parallel universe, as apart from this recording, there was no trace of it, like it had never existed.

Two weeks ago, they mystery was finally solved. Turns out it's called "Subways of Your Mind," and it's awesome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwiEvPMANa8&list=RDDwiEvPMANa8&start_radio=1

I did ask on mutual aid on hexbear twice but got no responses.

I'm going through a disability benefit appeal. I've got absolutely no money whatsoever, my overdraft is maxxed out and I'm 5 months in rent arrears, no family to help and the food bank is so difficult and time consuming to access. You get three days worth of food but it takes over a week to access. So every week there's 4 or more days of starvation. Anyway I am absolutely starving. The problem is, I don't dare ask for money in case I get in trouble with the DWP (British benefit nazis) for having a source of income. So would anyone please be able to help me out with food some other way than money? British supermarket gift cards (eg for sainsburys/tesco/asda), a justeat voucher, an amazon voucher so I can order food from amazon pantry, I mean anything at all that isn't actual money? I am so desperate I don't know what to do. I know sainsburys take google pay for giftcards. You don't have to be in the UK to order them.