Life After Driving

Well judging by where I live, we all take to rather dashing mobility scooters. I quite fancy the metallic British Racing Green myself. I don't know their range, perhaps 20 miles (?) but I'm sure some have been souped up.

Seriously though for short journeys into town why not?

Rubylady you are so brave

My mother found it very hard. We did the costings for her and it was much cheaper to have a taxi than run a car, but she still wouldn't call taxis!
I can see her point - you lose the independence and you still have to call a taxi and wait. However she had to give up about 8 yrs ago and has got used to it in that time. It is a big life change.

I'm only 50 and gave up driving some 8 years ago now due to being so badly depressed that I felt I would be a hindrance on the roads.

My health deteriorated quite badly at this time, plus we had an road accident whilst on a bus, leaving me with another life long heart condition to go with the two I already had.

It has impacted on my life to the point of thinking twice if I really need to go somewhere as I usually use taxis to take me direct and back again. Or I travel with my brother in his car. This is because I only have a certain amount of energy and so if I traveled on the bus, then my time where I was going would be very limited and I would have to go home again very soon. I now cannot travel to my DD even if I wanted to because it takes it out of me too much to travel there, stay for a couple of hours to see the children and then travel back. My legs swell and I am laid up then for days afterwards due to my heart conditions. So now I choose not to go.

I do go on holiday because I can go one way, rest for a few days and then travel back home. If going out at home, I am away from home only a couple of hours and then back and back into bed for a rest. I am waiting for a heart valve operation so it might make me feel better again when I have had this and recovered, who knows.

But I am here, and there are plenty worse, so I get on with it.