I was forced out of my job for being blown up in Manchester
She added: “It has built up since I was lying in hospital. The text messages, the letters, knowing the state I was in.
“‘Where’s the sick note? Can you talk about a file? When are you coming back to work? Can you do an online course?’
“I gave them my all, I loved working there, and they have treated me like a number rather a person. I’m not earning for them so I am out. The sympathy all seems so disingenuous.
“I want to work, but not there, not ever again. They’ve made me feel like a victim again which is something I don’t want to feel.
“It is humiliating and degrading. I felt I had no choice.” Julie said the messages made her feel guilty about taking time off work despite the horrific ordeal she had suffered, and they added to the stress and pressure of her already difficult situation.
Trade union official Ronnie Cunningham is helping Julie with her case. He said: “There seems to have been no compassion or real sympathy.
“The company talk about their sick policy but no policy in the world is written for something like this. Julie didn’t have the flu, she was in a major terrorist attack and thankfully survived.
“We will say she was sacked and that will be for the tribunal to decide.” Julie’s sister Carla, a Labour councillor and disability campaigner, described Julie’s situation as a tragedy. She added: “You are treated differently when you have a disability. “Employers look at you in a different light. Julie now has to break down barriers put in her way by something that wasn’t her fault.” Giving this interview was Julie’s first time out of the house for four months that was not for a doctor’s appointment.
Medics expected her to have some feeling in her leg by now but she has none.
She gave herself thirddegree burns by straying too close to an open oven door in her kitchen for too long but didn’t even notice.
Julie sleeps just three hours a night because of the trauma and claims the firm made repeated requests to come and see her at home.
She added: “At this point, I’m at home in a wheelchair on my own for the first time, terrified of what the future might hold, trying to adapt. I’ve got nurses coming three times a week to treat the wounds that won’t close.
“I can’t get up the stairs to go to my bed, I can’t make a cup of tea. “And I’ve got my mum and my sister washing me in my kitchen sink as if I was a child.
“I didn’t want to talk to anyone. I didn’t want anyone coming into my sanctuary.”
Dickinson Parker Hill declined to comment last night but it is understood they do not accept Julie’s claims, having offered her a consultation period.
Despite her paralysis, Julie is working towards her goal of hopefully one day walking again.
She was caught up in the Manchester Arena blast when she left the gig with a friend and her daughter.
Julie even spotted 22-year-old British jihadi Abedi before he blew himself up as 14,200 fans filed out of the auditorium after Grande’s performance.
The shrapnel that flew into her body avoided any major organs.