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Originally Posted by micknef
Excuse me Finz! The post asked if anyone had experience with an OTR. I gave my experience, there is no need to start another thread simply by answering someones question. *admin edit* It isn't like I carried on a 4 page story about myself. I was giving an example to the person who started this thread. And as far as RFC's go. They are pretty much formatted all the same way. They all state severe limitations. I have the use of only 1 arm and no legs.... So yes, I can never work again. All 3 of my RFC's were filled out 100 percent favorably along with 2 detailed narratives. With 14 years of treating medical records as well as MRI's and 2 completed RFC reports from 2 different physical therapy offices.
The problem is I have been working and paying into the system since I was 14 years old. I was making 80,000.00 a year when I became disabled. They want and need me back in the work world to help pay into this system that only seems to work for fakers and drug addicts. A neighbor of mine was approved after 4 months for simply a "bad back" he is a junkie! His back allows him to wash his car and mow the lawn, build a porch on his house but me who have 2 small kids and can't even push them around the corner for ice cream because I only have 1 working arm is denied.
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"mind your business"
"Excuse me ?"
I prefer not to be spoken to in that way. I'd appreciate it if you would not do that again.
I'm sorry that I seem to have offended you and for thinking that you were looking for input about your situation. I misunderstood your inclusion of facts about your case, thinking you were looking for comments on your case and was just trying to help you get that. I apologize for suggesting that if you wanted advice on your own case that you start a your own thread to keep the discussion on topic in each thread. I made a misassumption. I'm sorry.
I also referred to your comment about your RFC's. When I see posts that contain possibly misleading info, which may be because the poster misunderstands the subject matter or may just be because the poster didn't explain the situation fully, I comment on it......not to insult the person if they were just too brief and didn't realize how others could be misled. If the poster really doesn't know or understand a point, I want to help them understand it better. I also want to help all of the forum members who read those comments now and in the future who could be misled by that info. I think it's important to clarify that type of thing, so as not to lead others astray. I want newbies to the SSDI/SSI process to understand that statements like "This all with 3 RFC's and an additional form filled out from doctors
stating that I can never work again" and "
I have the use of only 1 arm and no legs (SSDI/SSI can see from your application that you have legs and you should be having double knee replacements, which means that the functioning of both legs IS expected to improve)....
So yes, I can never work again" are NOT proof of disability.
Please understand that I am not suggesting that you are not truly disabled or that your docs and PT's did not document the proof of your disability correctly. I am simply pointing out that what you have said in your posts in this thread regarding what's on your RFC's, does not prove disability.
I've read so many posts here from people who don't realize that documentation from a doc simply stating "can not work" is not proof of total disability to the SSA.....or they list all of their diagnoses to "prove" their disability, not realizing that it's NOT about the diagnosis or diagnoses, it's about how the symptoms that came with the diagnoses affect them and limit their ability to sit, stand, walk, and mentally process things. You may understand all of that. The comments in this thread could reinforce the misunderstanding of the process that so many people have and I want to prevent that from happening.
Oddly enough, some of this does relate to a point that I want to make for nic......so it's back to the regularly scheduled programming now......