u/NefariousNatee

I'm a 28 year old from Nova Scotia. Very excited after being incapable of walking for 13 months!

What are some questions I should ask? Here's what I came up with.

What's the expected timeline for building to completion?

What's the typical timeline for learning to walk?

Can it be fitted for my shoes or winter boots?

What options if any are available for me to choose?

Context: I'm a fresh amputee getting stir crazy in my family home with a lot on my mind over the last few days.

For now I have no capacity to walk around or earn an income because my health should always come first.

And the red tape bureaucracy of this country has shattered my faith and that it is capable of fixing the problems we all face despite working in the GoC for 3+ years. The problem as in housing, healthcare, education, affordability with livable / competitive wages.

I've just gotten my second denial for CPPD, reason being?

I'm not disabled enough, despite being an above knee leg amputee.

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Let's get to know a brave soul whose name is Bradley Lowe, a disabled individual with the unfortunate circumstance of becoming homeless and resorted to living in a tent out of Halifax.

He unfortunately passed away in December 2023, but his legacy lives on today as he and his family challenged the government stance that he wasn't entitled to the disability rate of $975 monthly because of the fact he lived in a tent, therefore he would only get $380 monthly. His disability can pound sand.

The Court of Appeals ruled in favour on Wednesday August 5th, 2026 that a tent does in fact count as accommodation.

Well the jackals in our provincial "Progressive" Conservative party would not stand for this!

Less than three weeks after what should have been a precedent setting verdict. The government simply changed the law redefining what accommodation is.

Going from accommodation, to explicitly "lives in a home".

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This is an injustice, right up there with the Province of Alberta deliberately cutting funding for the disabled community and immediately afterwards suffering from a clerical error that resulted in people on AISH getting under-paid.

Which prompted a disabled Albertan individual named Bruce Johnson to commit suicide back in June.

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Now onto a mild amount of cynical venting.

Why is this Provincial government not seizing the initiative with federal funding already available in building affordable housing estates in every single municipality of Nova Scotia?

Probably because it won't exclusively benefit the slumlord families and REITs that feel entitled to more than half of your net monthly income for a dilapidated shelter in need of significant repairs.

There's a particular kind of person who would rather the disabled and homeless communities be segregated and hidden away like hermits so they can pretend we don't exist in their own perfect world of life. "Out of sight, out of mind" kind of rationale.

Nevermind the facts that most working class people, who are not born into wealth are two missed paychecks, one accident or one bad day away from being in the exact same camp.

Thanks for your time in reading.

Makes sense considering Canada also just got approved for Europe's €150,000,000,000 re-armanent fund back in February.

I'm not one to typically air out my dirty laundry online but this outcome has really got a chip on my shoulder.

As many people are already aware nearly a year ago I suffered a knee replacement failure that broke my femur, which triggered a series of unfortunate events that resulted in the amputation of my right leg above the knee after several surgeries.

My disability benefits application was supposed to be done when I was a patient at the Nova Scotia rehabilitation centre months ago. But unfortunately 1 of 3 available social workers was on an extended leave of absence leaving the remaining two individuals expected to pick up the slack. Long story short the application never started and I had to do it on my own initiative.

So after finally getting all the paperwork filled out with my family doctor, because the online portal refuses to function I mailed the paperwork with a stack of medical records to Ottawa.

Well somebody rejected my application citing that I failed to meet the criteria for rule number 3. "Have a severe and prolonged disability as defined by CPP legislation"

I'm sorry what in the actual fuck?!

I've been living with symptoms of my auto-immune disorder since the age of 10, I spent most of my teenage years on crutches and addicted to opioids, I finally regained some dignity and independence after I was done growing with my first knee replacement at age 18 and revision replacement at age 26. My damned leg is chopped off now, if that's not disabled I don't know what is.

But according to the Government of Canada I'm still capable of finding "Substantially gainful employment with accommodations".

My savings aren't invincible and I need to find a source of income sooner rather than later, I ran out of my employment insurance benefits and have already been denied workers compensation as they cited my injury occurred due to a pre-existing condition.

And while I'm venting on this topic, did you know that disability benefits provided are below the official poverty line of $31,260 for an individual earner?!

How does a politician expect a disabled individual to live on scraps? I know there's a certain type of Canadian who would rather we disabled people isolate ourselves out of sight from society like hermits so they can pretend we don't exist. "Out of sight out of mind" kind of rationale.

But nope, apparently I'm not even worthy of these scraps despite the fact I'm already eligible for the disability tax credit and worked as a federal public servant for over three years!

A disabled man in Alberta recently committed suicide after having his benefits cut by the UCP, so this is the perfect time and place to raise a stink over this I feel at least.

Yes I will be calling Service Canada tomorrow and escalate to a supervisor for an appeal.

Happy Canada 159 everybody.

God forbid we are ever in another emergency like an active shooter for example.

Being able to lineup and donate blood or having something that shows parimedics what your blood type is can be critical.

I've had five surgeries in the last eight months and I've received multiple blood transfusions yet for some reason blood type is not indicated anywhere on my health records.

I now have to book an appointment with my family doctor and explicitly request the test that determines your blood type, seems like an awful lot of hoops to jump through for what should be standard and readily available info. - Rant over.

EDIT: I'd donate blood if I could. Just had my leg amputated and can't drive yet