I am recovering from surgery to remove my entire bladder, prostate, seminal glands. and some lymph nodes, I am awaiting notification of my new hearing following a federal court remand following ten consecutive years of losses!

I have a thirty year old trailer I call home, I am now on MA, and have absolutely zero income, and or other assets. I no longer can pay the lot rent, or utilities! I have three adult siblings, ranging in age from 50-55 yrs, all fairly well off, not a one of them has offered any help whatsoever! This would include an older brother whom I took in not once, but twice for a total of three years. He now works for Quest knocking down just over a hundred grand a year! The other two are an RN & an IT for IBM, both of whom earn at, or above the six figure mark...

Why do I share such despicable, dirty laundry with you? Is it sour grapes? Whining? Begging/pan-handling? No, its just a heads up as to what you can look forward too after you start racking up losses to the ALJ's! You see SSA knows good and well that your families will turn on you viciously, its part of their strategy, one that works very well. Its all but impossible for a casual observer to conclude that I must be the blackest of the sheep, an arch-scumbag deserving of every evil thing that befalls him. How could anyone conclude otherwise? Yet you'd be wrong, in fact I have doled out money in the past, not the other way around.

My older brother, the one I gave a home to when nobody else was willing to give him the time of day, he loses more money in the casino each month then I require to live on for half a year or so, yet not a peep. How can this be? Nobody likes a loser.....

Keep these things in mind as you embark upon your SSDI claim, your families can and will turn on you, SSA is counting on it.....