Yes this storyline is just terrible. The scene with the policeman was hilarious, more like a scene in a sitcom than a soap, just can't take Izzy seriously at all

It could have been a good story - EDS is horrible. Unless you've seen someone dislocate or have a sublax or even just suffer from the horrendous pain from the condition you'd probably not understand her desperation. With some conditions NICE will not agree to certain drugs as shown by her saying if she had MS she could get the pain relief she needs. Sadly, as it the way with CS these days, it's been poorly thought out, poorly written, acted with way too much gurning and will be forgotten about within a fortnight. If a child can go from sitting quietly upstairs for months on end to suddenly having ADHD diagnosed and medicated by a GP then anything goes. Or a child can have cancer, get treatment, recover quick as a flash and be back in childcare while her mother goes back to work. Or aforementioned cancer can be a plot device to show debt and poverty from a family who have assets and no outgoings. I'm starting to wonder why I'm still watching this bilge.

Her ventriloquist dummy's mouth when she talks when crying just has me in absolute stitches Hahahaha....

Didn't she run into that coppers foot on purpose? Or was it an accident??

That policeman was a bloody nasty piece of work....unfortunately mirrored real life a bit too well.

She was off her head and didn't care if they took her down, She wasn't going without a fight

High comedy all round

I think this sums it up for me. The story line has given me some understanding of the desperation someone with this condition must face in how to deal with pain and manage to have a near to normal life and I think it is very worthy of telling BUT Corrie have ruined it They have messed it up by showing an unrealistic police force and a stupidly unsympathetic Anna etc to the possibility of drug taking for pain relief alone and along with the really very dreadful Izzy it's been a shambles. It's a real pity but not surprising at all.

It depends what you mean by equally. Izzy cannot live an equal life without assistance like help with mobility and pain relief. I think this story line has demonstrated that most people in Weatherfield anyway and including authority figures don't and indeed refuse to understand that. Actually it's worse as they won't even show sympathy for her needing it.

Would the police have even had the right to barge into her house like that and start ordering her around? They clearly hadn't got a search warrant and had merely spotted the dealer entering the house with her, nor were they in hot pursuit of the dealer or had proof he was selling drugs to Izzy.

Exactly! Be not being funny but the whole spiel by the copper in the interview about dealers hanging around outside schools to get kids hooked hardly rings true these days. I'm certainly no expert but I imagine that weed dealers nowadays would rather sell to people that hold down steady jobs and order regularly from them , rather than spend time turning school kids into drug addled wrecks just to get their £5 pocket money from them!

Disabled people do want equality but need reasonable adjustment in order to get it. It's all dependent on their individual needs. My son couldn't attend school without his legal right to reasonable adjustment but wants to be treated like everyone else.

While I understand what you mean, and I do sympathise, aren't the two mutually exclusive?

I thought this whole storyline was a comedy, i've been laughing at the whole thing. izzys crying face is the funniest thing ever.

Not at all. If there is reasonable adjustment and the disabled person is on a par with everyone then they can be treated equally. If you're not mobile or in severe pain constantly then it's hard to contribute equally.

Of course not. If you are in a wheelchair you need to be able to use a lift to attend lessons upstairs. If that need is met you can be treated like everyone else and be able to learn, take exams, socialise etc. With my son he's academically on a par with his peers (he performs at the top of his school year) but without certain adjustments he'd not even make it to class. He even does PE despite a physical disability and is graded accordingly which annoys him but he's treated like the other boys in school. He can't use the dining hall so school provide a room for him to eat a sandwich in. He didn't ask for a disability and wants to do the things other boys his age do and with some tweaks he can. He receives no favouritism and is punished if he misbehaves. That's what he wants - equal treatment with the odd adjustment.

Oh and sorry if I sounded rude as reading it back it could be seen as being so. It's a hard thing to explain.

No, not at all rude, and very interesting. I'm afraid I was being a bit over-pedantic about the wording. But as I said originally, I did understand what you meant.

Dreadful actress.

I do wish they would do something with her hair it's a mess.

Isn't she just! It makes it hard to feel sympathy for the character.

Me too, dreadfully written story with a dreadful actress playing the part all comes across in a comedy way, maybe the actress has been taking tips from the actress who plays Anna.

This would have been a believable and interesting storyline if they had chosen someone who could act to cover it. Same as Hopes cancer, Fizz was not convincing as the worried mum and the story fell flat.
Imagine if it had of been Lily who was ill with the fab Kylie as the worried mum, and someone like Todd or David addicted to weed.

Indeed, the reason most people are reduced to laughter watching Izzy "crying" is that she simply cannot act.

A good actress would be able to move the audience and make them feel sorry for her.

LOL, yes!!!! Anytime Izzy starts crying i just buts out laughing, that girl cannot cry to save her life. They need to bring over Danny Miller to teach her how to cry convincingly.

I thought they way Izzy was talking the police was insane, she kept saying how she had to be somewhere and then ran over the police officer's foot. She is lucky the UK police aren't like they are here in the US, they'd have shot her ass and claimed self defense.

Please no - we have enough of Danny Miller sniffling and sighing and wailing as it is. Two of them would be a nightmare 😉.

Laughing at her being shot in self defence - woman armed with wheelchair as an offensive weapon 😂. What I don't understand is why she didn't get herself a plant and grow her own. No drug dealers just a funny looking plant in the garden. It's about as realistic as other CS storylines.

I dount the policeman had any right to confiscate Izzy's painkillers prescribed by the doctors. It was at this moment when Izzy lashed out. So really, the policeman brought it on himself, and for Izzy to be charged is grossly unfair.

Agreed. Watching the actress trying to "act" is hilarious. We were pissing ourselves watching her, she is so bad. Her grimacing gurning face is comedy gold.