lol

It's hard not to take any denial personally.

From what you've said on NT, it really sounds like the evidence for a claim of total disability just wasn't there when you first applied. Not that you didn't feel the same then, just that the nature of the diagnoses and the documentation from your docs made improvement sound reasonable. It really sounds like your more recent documentation changes your prognosis. I hope that it's just going to be an issue with the date of onset for you.

I do wish you had heard already about the ALJ hearing findings.....don't know what's taking so long.