‘I never want to step inside that office again’

A woman who cares full-time for her husband who was diagnosed with MND last year said it took four months to be approved for a disability pension. Picture: Ben Gross
Denika Anderson

IN September last year Julie* and her husband Peter*, out of concern he had a bad knee, went to a rheumatologist who believed Peter might have a treatable inflammatory muscle disease. Less than 24 hours after talking on the phone to the rheumatologist Peter was sitting on a bed in St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne getting […]

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