I worked from when I was 18 until 52. I was insured up to the hilt. I saved a high proportion of my salary. I believed that I was bullet proof. But now it's just desperate. I can't describe what Christmas and New Year was like this year without having any presents to give to anybody. It's so humiliating when you have had a good job and you've worked all your life. I was a ward sister in orthopaedics. I couldn't recognise myself from what was written in the Atos report. I was astonished that they could take such a high-handed view about my condition.
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I worked from when I ...
I've lived with epilepsy all my life, but a few years ago it became very unstable and I couldn't find work.
