Hiya weegie and welcome :) if you are who I think you are we are already FB friends? :o
We haven't been on holiday for a couple of years. My line manager told me about a nice and ridiculously cheap channel island cruise though and I'm quite tempted - particularly as neither of us drive, getting around on holiday would be incredibly stressful with my health as it is, and DS still being a bolter, so the idea of lounging on a boat is rather attractive.
Have to wait and see what happens with this JSA problem though. DH is going to a compliance interview in a couple of weeks, but he certainly did give them all the info (they evidently just didn't use it!) so hopefully it should be ok. Still making me very anxious though.
And OMG yes queuing! And waiting for buses. It's awful. The bus stop I go to for work has no seat. I would really benefit from a walking frame with the little fold down seat thing, not that I always need to lean on something to walk, but because I just cannot stand still for more than a few seconds (because of the POTS rather than the CFS). On a less painful day, I can walk down to the school, but the second I stop the dizziness just floods in - like a tidal wave, full body version of a head rush.
I guess even a stick would help as at least I could lean on that in queues. But I worry that people would see me not using it to walk, and therefore think I'm a fake? Because actually, when I'm walking, I prefer to walk as fast as I can manage, precisely because I can't stand up. If that makes sense. The faster I walk (which obviously isn't that fast due to other symptoms) the less time I have upright. So people might see me walking like a normal healthy person and totally judge me for suddenly getting a folding cane out of my bag once I get to the till/bus stop :(
This has really put me off using any walking aid so I just try and lean against something. I need to discuss it with a physio, I was supposed to be having a 'walking assessment' but haven't heard anything so need to chase it up.