HI LADIES. HAS ANYONE ELSE TRIED GETTING SS DISABILITY? IT IS VERY DISHEARTING. MY FILE IS VERY THICK, BEEN TO TWO SS. DOCTORS ALREADY. WELL, THURSDAY WILL BE MY SECOND. I LOOK FORWARD TO SITTING IN FRONT OF THIS DR. WHO I RESPECT FOR THEIR TITLE, HOWEVER I DON'T RECALL EVER TALKING TO THIS STRANGER ABOUT THE PAIN AND HOW SEVERE IT CAN BE. THEY WEREN'T THERE TO TALK TO WHEN I HIT SO LOW THAT I COULDN'T GET OUT OF BED OR BEGIN TO FORCE A SMILE. I DON'T RECALL THEM COMFORTING ME WHEN THE DOCTORS TOLD ME THAT I HAD BEEN DEALT A BAD HAND OF GENETICS. THEIR NOT THERE WHEN I HAVE TO TAKE MY REGIMEN OF PILLS IN SESSIONS BECAUSE THEY MAKE ME SICK TO TAKE ALL AT ONCE. I WISH I COULD HAVE THEIR PHONE NUMBER TO CALL WHEN I CAN'T SLEEP AT NIGHT BECAUSE OF INSOMNIA, AFRAID THAT I WON'T WAKE UP. I WISH THEY COULD HAVE BEEN THERE EACH TIME THE AMBULANCE CAME, AND I THOUGHT IT WAS THE END. I WISH I COULD BORROW SOME OF THEIR ENERGY WHEN EVEN THE SIMPLIST TASK MAKES ME TIRED. I WISH THEY COULD COME OVER AND CLEAN AND KEEP MY HOUSE THE WAY I ALWAYS KEPT IT. THEY WEREN'T THERE WHEN MY EMPLOYER FIRED ME BECAUSE I COULD NO LONGER REMEMBER MY JOB AND THE TASK THAT I WAS SUPPOSE TO DO. I WISH THEY HAD TO POOL SOME OF THEIR DOLLARS FOR THOSE OF US THAT CHOOSE, MEDS OR THE SIMPLE PLEASURES IN LIFE, LIKE A MOVIE ONCE A MONTH. I REALLY WISH THAT THESE DOCTORS THAT WE ARE SENT TO, COULD KNOW US AND WALK WITH US THROUGH JUST ONE 24 HR PERIOD. HAS ANYONE RECIEVED DISABILITY ??
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HEART DISEASE AND HEART DISEASE
- By jacksvern
- Posted August 3, 2009 at 8:49 pm · 2 replies
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- By Gammacygnus
- Posted August 7, 2009 at 9:18 pm
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Took me 2 years to get my disabilities in 2001. My application was appealed at least twice with 6 months between each appeal before I saw the Judge. Also I didn't have a job or insurance at the time I was diagnosed in 1999. Do you have a lawyer that deals with SSI? There is a backlog of others that have applied to SSI or SSD. I'm sorry social security is making you wait but getting upset and angry isn't going to speed up the process. There maybe somebody worse off then you.
- By jacksvern
- Posted August 8, 2009 at 3:25 pm
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thanks for your view. i am not getting angry, i believe i said frustrated. i lost my job after struggling with all the side effects of meds for three years after diagnosis. i had very rough days, but i knew that my family needed my 6 figure income. i too carried the insurance. worked because my husband who is on a transplant list needed the insurance. when the memory and fatique got worse with the heart disease, i finally had to face the reality that i could not continue to work. insurance? yes i have insurance, cobra which runs 949. per month. medications that run out of pocket 530 a month( not counting husbands meds) . do i know that there are probably alot of people worse off then i? sure i do! but this is a system i paid into for 35 years. i think i deserve to be a little frustrated if i wish. your post shows you had no job or insurance at the time you were diagnosed, thank god for all the people that have paid into social security that make it possible for everyone to have this great benefit. sometimes we have to wait our turn, and i do understand that. thanks for your view, i am sure its the view of many others. have a blessed day.
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