I've just found the new 'Rural and Remote' Group - and have requested to join. (Currently awaiting approval.) Hopefully we'll be able to help each other & chat about the additional challenges we fa...
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Hi @jennyss - I actually found it by pure luck! I hadn't noticed any announcement of it on the blog.
I am guessing that anyone can join who has to travel anywhere from an hour plus from home, to access reliable, big city Hospitals, Doctors and services .... Most city people have multiple choices of these things and would expect to travel no more than 1/2hr to access them - rural & remote people don't have that luxury. So if you have to travel .... sign up.
I can recall suggesting a Remote & Rural Group a while back in one of the posts I replied to & had tagged Mez .... so well done Mez! She did it!! ;) God knows I'd never remember where to find the post again! LOL
How I found it - I am a member of a couple of groups, so now & then I just click on the 'Group' sign in the just under your 'name' (rather than clicking on the list on the right of the posts) as you can then see if there have been any 'new posts' in your groups more easily as I don't seem to get notification of new posts (unless I miss them somehow!)
Then, I just scrolled down the page a bit further & there it was!! @Mez_BCNA - could the Remote & Rural group be added to the 'group list' on the right hand side of the Discussions Page, please? Thanks.
I think we'll get a lot of tips, support & help in the group - and terrific that all that info will be in the one spot - even tho it may relate to slightly different rules within each state. Most should have 'similar options' available to their remote/rural patients.
We are definitely disadvantaged thru time & travel and choice of surgeons/Onc/Procedures & even hospitals that are 'up to' the high standards that we expect of our treatment ....
I know that I wasn't made aware of any of the Patient Subsidies that were available re travel & accommodation, going back 12+ years - these are the highest expenses when you have to keep going back to the big cities/towns for essential checkups & procedures ..... and when I DID finally lodge my first claim back in 2011 for all the travel/accommodation re my husband's initial surgery in 2010 ..... it was declined as I'd lodged it late! grrr. Now lodgements have been extended to 2 years, so it would have been accepted, if done now. The previous 12 months had been a whirlwind of travel, surgery, chemo & checkups & it wasn't easy getting all the required signatures either - and to be totally honest, I wasn't up to it mentally, either! grrr
So my first tip would be not to put off lodging for subsidies!
I am guessing that anyone can join who has to travel anywhere from an hour plus from home, to access reliable, big city Hospitals, Doctors and services .... Most city people have multiple choices of these things and would expect to travel no more than 1/2hr to access them - rural & remote people don't have that luxury. So if you have to travel .... sign up.
I can recall suggesting a Remote & Rural Group a while back in one of the posts I replied to & had tagged Mez .... so well done Mez! She did it!! ;) God knows I'd never remember where to find the post again! LOL
How I found it - I am a member of a couple of groups, so now & then I just click on the 'Group' sign in the just under your 'name' (rather than clicking on the list on the right of the posts) as you can then see if there have been any 'new posts' in your groups more easily as I don't seem to get notification of new posts (unless I miss them somehow!)
Then, I just scrolled down the page a bit further & there it was!! @Mez_BCNA - could the Remote & Rural group be added to the 'group list' on the right hand side of the Discussions Page, please? Thanks.
I think we'll get a lot of tips, support & help in the group - and terrific that all that info will be in the one spot - even tho it may relate to slightly different rules within each state. Most should have 'similar options' available to their remote/rural patients.
We are definitely disadvantaged thru time & travel and choice of surgeons/Onc/Procedures & even hospitals that are 'up to' the high standards that we expect of our treatment ....
I know that I wasn't made aware of any of the Patient Subsidies that were available re travel & accommodation, going back 12+ years - these are the highest expenses when you have to keep going back to the big cities/towns for essential checkups & procedures ..... and when I DID finally lodge my first claim back in 2011 for all the travel/accommodation re my husband's initial surgery in 2010 ..... it was declined as I'd lodged it late! grrr. Now lodgements have been extended to 2 years, so it would have been accepted, if done now. The previous 12 months had been a whirlwind of travel, surgery, chemo & checkups & it wasn't easy getting all the required signatures either - and to be totally honest, I wasn't up to it mentally, either! grrr
So my first tip would be not to put off lodging for subsidies!