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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 8:48 pm Post subject: Woman, 108, must wait 18 months for hearing aid |
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Maybe Michael Moore can come over and help us sort out our NHS? 
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A 108-year-old woman has been told she must wait at least 18 months before she receives a new hearing aid.
Olive Beal, who has failing eyesight and uses a wheelchair, finds it difficult to hear with her five-year-old analogue aid and needs a digital version that cuts out background noise and makes conversation easier.
Mrs Beal, a former piano teacher who was involved in the suffragette movement, would be 110 by the time she gets her new hearing aid. "I could be dead by then," she said yesterday.
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"Olive has worked hard from the age of 16 to her late 60s and paid taxes. She has been healthy all her life and lived with her daughter until 15 years ago - she has never sponged off the state. I thought a 108-year-old deserved to be treated better than this."
Born in 1899, Mrs Beal grew up in Paddington, west London, and went to school with Christabel Pankhurst, daughter of suffragette leader Emily, and helped at suffragette demonstrations |
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2137719,00.html |
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dmbfan
Joined: 09 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 9:05 pm Post subject: |
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| figures..............poor gal. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Anyone born before 1900 who is still alive should get preferential treatment. I mean, its not a long list and they won't enjoy the treatment for too long! |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Kuros wrote: |
| Anyone born before 1900 who is still alive should get preferential treatment. I mean, its not a long list and they won't enjoy the treatment for too long! |
Maybe she won't be around in 18 months. It is not like making a 10 year old wait. She was around when Queen Victoria was queen. |
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