Share Disability Alert

Share Disability Alert

I had an accident in 2002.

After six years I have gotten quiet use to the fact that the medical system for me just does not work.

After six years of living with a disability i know what it mean to be humbled.
My family has had to go through the torment of being constantly in pain and without my income.

At first I used to tell to people what happened.

What is was like to live with a constant feeling of numbness and shooting pain.

That did not work.

Eventually I just shut up and suffered in silence.

The health system for a person with a disability is a different world.

For me I try to divert my energy into things that take my mind off the constant discomfort.

I would like to see every person on Prince Edward Island to be given the Worker compensation facts of life.

1)-What can happen if you are injured while you are working out of province?

2)-Did you know that if you are injured in Toronto and if you wish to come home to Prince Edward Island you are disqualified for any services.

3)-Basically you are left to fend for yourself and there is nothing you can do but confront the WSIB system on your own. The process is discouraging to say the least.

4)- Did you know that Workers compensation boards are not inter-provincial.

I not going to tell who i am because I could be anyone you know and have learned that once you tell people you are injured you are marginalized in many forms.

Thanks for you time.