I'm furious!
Sweetie, hang onto the ones that will help you and f*** the rest. Or the simpler version
STICK WITH THE WINNERS
I was on SSDI (not SSI) disability for a couple of years, but there was a time that I thought I would never work again. I had not been working since I quit and went to law school. By my last year I was getting very very sick and equally depressed. Within 6 months time, I was diagnosed with systemic lupus and multiple sclerosis, and autoimmune thyroid disease. I was as sick as I have ever been. I applied for SSDI and I don't think I would have been initially approved unless I was dead. I think it is by design; a weeding out process - hope people will give up. I had to end up going to an administrative judge who took all of 5 seconds with me - he had seen my medical records, so he said that I "was to be commended" for even attempting to go back to work as ill as I had been. He granted full disability and I asked for a limited time.
THere are some doctors who will help and some that seem to deliberately sabotage anyone who tries to get disability, or an injury award or anything - doctors carry with them their biases and prejudices.
I did not feel the least guilty about using benefits when I desperately needed them, after I had been working for 30 years paying into those programs. That can hardly be considered a "giveaway" - I paid for it
STICK WITH THE WINNERS
I was on SSDI (not SSI) disability for a couple of years, but there was a time that I thought I would never work again. I had not been working since I quit and went to law school. By my last year I was getting very very sick and equally depressed. Within 6 months time, I was diagnosed with systemic lupus and multiple sclerosis, and autoimmune thyroid disease. I was as sick as I have ever been. I applied for SSDI and I don't think I would have been initially approved unless I was dead. I think it is by design; a weeding out process - hope people will give up. I had to end up going to an administrative judge who took all of 5 seconds with me - he had seen my medical records, so he said that I "was to be commended" for even attempting to go back to work as ill as I had been. He granted full disability and I asked for a limited time.
THere are some doctors who will help and some that seem to deliberately sabotage anyone who tries to get disability, or an injury award or anything - doctors carry with them their biases and prejudices.
I did not feel the least guilty about using benefits when I desperately needed them, after I had been working for 30 years paying into those programs. That can hardly be considered a "giveaway" - I paid for it
Julia,
Insult to injury really comes to mind here. . . but from the sounds of it, you have a really supportive PCP and I just hope that the possibility you were told of, is nothing more than them being the way doctors tend to be today, overly negative in things, as it seems they do over and over again, scaring the bejesus out of people in order to cover their asses. . . You are in my thoughts and prayers and I surely hope that you get good news when you see your PCP tomorrow!
Hugs, Laureen
Insult to injury really comes to mind here. . . but from the sounds of it, you have a really supportive PCP and I just hope that the possibility you were told of, is nothing more than them being the way doctors tend to be today, overly negative in things, as it seems they do over and over again, scaring the bejesus out of people in order to cover their asses. . . You are in my thoughts and prayers and I surely hope that you get good news when you see your PCP tomorrow!
Hugs, Laureen
My Mantra is that I do not determine my success by the number hanging in my closet, nor will I let the scale determine that success either. . . It is through trial and error I will continue to grow and succeed. . . Laureen
"Success is a journey, not a destination." Ben Sweetland
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