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DVLA Revoked licence re diabetes. Reasons not true. WWYD ?

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Oblomov · 06/06/2011 04:03

DVLA sent letter to say that my licence has been revoked. Came back from 10 days holiday yesterday, to this. Such a shock. Diabetic consultant reviews me, fills out form. Ring her. On a sunday. She's not impressed. But then neither am I !!
She seems very dismissive. 'Oh well, we can come up with a plan to persuade them that we can make things better, lets meet in a week'.
But she never said she had concerns at the time of filling the form out.My dh is not happy.
I can not get to work. It is only a 20 minute commute, by car. But takes over 2 hours on the train, with 3 changes.
Plus, there is no valid reason.
The form says that I have lost awareness of an impending hypo, thus I could be dangerous to drive. That I have lost my warning signs. But this is not true. My warning signs are as good as ever, in fact have got a tiny bit better over the last month, 3 months and 6 months.
My dh spoke to the consultant aswell, and said he had no concerns at all.

But I feel so powerless. someone , somewhere has ticked a box , by accident, saying no, when really the answer is yes.
But my work will go mad. I can't work. I may lose my job. I am supposed to drive to the hospital tomorrow to finalise ds1's Aspergers diagnosis letter.
This is a nightmare, and I am not sure what to do.

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Oblomov · 17/06/2011 12:29

I phone everyday. The manager is getting fed up with me phoning, but i don't care.
The first fax isn't rec'd. No secretary, becasue she only works mon, tue, fri. so I get another secretary to send another. then they say it will take 3 days to get that scanned. then finally , yesterday it is scanned. I insist it is sent to the medical team. only now is it given a number 1 priority,even though i was assured that before. I ring today. apparently it has now gone to the doctor, from the medical tream. he has 2 days to review it. I will phone monday.
I have been unable to drive for over 2 weeeks now.
With everything else going on for me, I just can't cope. I sobbed last night. And today.
I wish my mum was home from her holiday. oh well.

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tiggersreturn · 17/06/2011 12:32

It sounds like you're doing everything you can Oblomov and it's a very good tactic (the old one of make it more difficult not to deal with you than to deal with you). Have you tried calling IDDT? I find Jenny very good to chat to and they may have experience in getting the DVLA to pull their finger out.

Oblomov · 17/06/2011 12:45

Cheers. I have rung them. The chap was very nice but said he wouldn't be able to help, but he would get someone to call me back.

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