This is the Hilt Stories section: Independence#0.1 Sylvia's story Staff used to fill my dosset box I am now filling my medication dosset box independently, I bring my dosset box to the staff office every Monday and fill it for the week on my own. Staff check the dosset box after I have filled it and make sure that it is OK. I take my dosset box up to my flat and put it away safe in my bedroom. Staff remind me when I am running out of medication and I go to the chemist on my own to get some more. I like being independent. Sylvia presently lives in a supported housing project. Get all the stories on audio cassete by clicking here. #0.2 Frank It's my I went to the pub to see my friends; I go out every night and meet lots of people. I have someone to talk to. I went to work yesterday and I swept the whole corridor and cleaned the tables with spray. Get all the stories on audio cassete by clicking here. #0.3 Xenia I never had many opportunities to explore what I really wanted to do or enjoy. It was always other people that decided for me. This would frustrate me and people would confuse me with so many different demands. Now things are better for me, I now work with a team of people that understand my needs and me much better. For the last year and a half I have made friendships and relationships with many people in my community, especially the local pub, I'm acknowledged with a greeting from people in the street and I am welcomed in cafés, restaurants and night-clubs. Get all the stories on audio cassette by clicking here. #0.4 John I used to work as a Porter After Hackney Hospital I had various jobs, posting cards for Taxi companies and for a while I was a home help. Most recently I worked at the Huddleston Centre, looking after the grounds and cleaning the building. I stopped working there when the funding ran out. I am now working at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, it's not paid work, just work experience. Ellingham Road have helped me with the work experience. I think the work's good, I work from 8-4 three days a week. I have been learning my way around the hospital and I get half an hour dinner break, there is a huge canteen. The canteen is very big and not everyone knows each other, not like the canteen at the old Hackney Hospital. I'm a domestic cleaner, I mop the floors and corridors, I sometimes work in the wards cleaning the toilets, sinks and rooms. John lives in Hackney and shares a Hilt flat with two other friends. Get all the stories on audio cassette by clicking here.  Print this page More stories... |
for me every Monday, but I preferred to do it myself.
own flat and I have made up my bed and did lots of ironing and did the hoovering, cleaned up my flat and make the place tidy. I have cleaned the floors.
at the Hackney Hospital, I started work there in 1967 and left in 1987, that's over 20 years.
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