Given this summary, excessive unnecessary air travel sounds like the worst possible thing you could put yourself through.
What happens if you have a seizure in the air? How quickly would you require medical assistance? If it took 30, 45 or 60 minutes to land and get you to a hospital, what would the consequences be?
I can get travel insurance and TBH, the consequences of dying on a plane are not as bad as the consequences of a life lived stuck in a bedroom, seeing the world through VR only.
Benefits often stop when you leave the country and resume when you return. Depends on the benefit of course. With newstart I was required to justify how I could afford the trip, even though it was booked/paid for long before I was on their books.
Yep but they're also automatically approved and backdated if you book yourself into a mental ward after being cut off which I can do by simply waltzing in, explaining my medical history and how not having a payment with my illness make me feel(all 100 percent legitimate, all I have to do is tell the truth rather than sugarcoating it like I normally do with doctors to get them to back off) without holding back anything and they'll admit me for observation to a low security ward. A week to two weeks spent in a ward with people licking windows or shaking in corners on my phone in VR(hope private is better), on my tablet watching movies or a playing games on a laptop between sessions of talking about how centerlink treats me for having an illness, automatically exempts me from any requirements for up to a year and forces them to backdate me to the date I was admitted.
Last time I was forced in, I was able to smuggle cigarettes, lighters, matches and alcohol into their high security ward with the help of friends and turned the joint into a party zone every night because I got sick of being told what to do after having a black box reaction and having the doctor delay addressing it until the PCA who is my carer now was able to show my throat and tongue had swollen up to the point I couldn't talk normally anymore and had difficulty breathing during a visit to me when I was being held against my will, he had assumed that I was always like that and couldn't understand why I was distressed.
I'm sure I can survive a low security ward voluntarily to ensure the government respects my condition and gives me the payments that I am entitled to as a citizen, I'm the only one in my entire family who has ever received or asked for government assistance, we were always too proud to ask for help and so was I until I got ill and realized I couldn't contribute to bills or even look after myself without a steady income.
My family is the sort that made us get jobs as soon as we were 14 and 9 months and taught us the importance of being independent as possible, it's been quite a blow to my self-esteem to have to ask for any help at all and I hurt myself trying to force myself back to work in jobs that I knew would probably affect my management of my condition, it caused the hospitalizations as I had yet to figure out how to avoid triggering my illness which mostly consists of retreating to a space I control when I feel unwell and enduring milder symptoms with the minimum medication possible while engaging in self-care and regular appointments with doctors until I can be me again.
It can take a day, it can take three weeks but I'm more productive in my room than I am trying to endure those symptoms in high stress environments. Just having the option to walk when I want to reduces some of my symptoms because I can avoid stressors, I was able to successfully volunteer as at an institute of neuroscience and mental health setting up experiments for my mate and weighing animal feed/animals to see if food uses the same pathways in the brain as drugs like heroi_ when animals are exposed to a high calorie diet for a long time and then removed from it suddenly to see how they react each time I came in about two years ago for about six months because I had the option to leave when I needed to and the folks there were nice and they had an awesome food court I would sometimes I get shouted eats in for helping out.
Fortunately the same insurance that pays for private stays at hospitals that I've been forced to buy because of loading fees being added every year over 31 will also allow me to get massages, chiro, dental and a buncha other cough done which is good for my physical health and anything that improves that helps me manage my illness better.
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@sbor90 "What is a premium pass? Do you mean a Qantas Club membership, or Priority Pass?
You need 7000 SC to reach Lifetime Silver, and 14000 SC to reach Lifetime Gold. That equates to somewhere around the $20k and $40k mark at the absolute minimum - flying on MH fares within Asia for example.
Reaching either of these milestones within 10 years, while being restricted to just 28 days per year overseas, is going to be borderline impossible.
(Does anyone else get the feeling this thread is one big troll?)"
7000-1400 SC, I can obtain over 10-15 years by flying domestically once/twice per month and internationally once to twice per year. I can obtain the priority pass, get discounted Qclub membership and grind for SC and points for years. It's the plan.
What sort of proof do I need to provide to prove this ISN'T a troll? What exactly is unbelievable about anything I'm saying considering we are on a forum where people discuss rotating gift cards through credit cards to pay rates bills to score miles?
