I can’t believe this. I’m booked in to have a minor surgery on my feet to clear up infected skin that has failed to respond to other treatments. It’s on the NHS so the surgery is free, but they just told me I have to pay for a pack of dressings to take home (as the wound needs the dressing changed every day and the pack apparently contains something to keep the dressings dry in the shower.) This pack is bloody £37, and I have to buy two as both my feet are having the surgery. I can’t be the only one who thinks these packs should be free along with the surgery? And where am I supposed to get £74 while going through a benefit appeal? Just when I think life can’t get worse, it finds a way. Being ill/disabled is so bloody expensive!

  • multitotal@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 months ago

    Have you tried telling them you can’t pay? Don’t they make exceptions for people in difficult circumstances? Tell them you won’t buy the dressings since you can’t afford them. They can’t make you pay. I don’t think they’d have a guilty conscience over £74 and will just give you them (I am an eternal optimist when it comes to goodness in people).