Thanks Renee and Lottie!

After meeting with the new attorney I feel much better. I am going to accept the partially favorable closed decision and file a new claim starting after the closed date the ALJ used. Everyone agrees there were a lot of strange and some legally incorrect things done, but the chances of losing at Appeals council are too great and will take probably another year and a half to get through. It is better to start the new claim. Hope it doesn't get denied and if it does I have better representation now. He gave me a lot of ideas on what my doctors need to be documenting, etc. My Rheumatologist has me sending him a letter ( that he won't be putting with my records) documenting a lot of symptoms, side effects of my medications, what I can and can't do, etc. So he can better document his records, forms and letters for SSDI. I've also discussed with my pain management doctor what he needs to document better. He as a habit of concentrating on only the RSD in the left arm and not documenting other things like the tendinitis in my right arm, trigger finger on that hand and the fact I can't do repetitive tasks with that arm because of those things. Along with other problems.