Originally Posted by lyndianne

Jo Mar...yes on job injuries. It's rather complicated Lit Love and thanks for replying. I own a home in Oregon and would go the Bay area to teach during the school year. I had planned to travel and teach in different states. I came back home after being declared permanent and stationary and half dead from trying to teach a very difficult special education class while head injured. If I had stayed in the bay area I would have become homeless.

Honestly I thought once I got home and rested I would be able to work in Oregon. I thought some of my problems were due to stress. My problems did not resolve. I did apply for SSDI and got approved immediately. Medicare is paying without a whimper, probably because Oregon refuses to take California work comp cases and I have not yet received any medical settlement. My neuropysch report states I can never teach again.

So there lies my question.....should my lawyer be using the information from my Oregon doctors to obtain a fairer disability rating? For example, I was recently diagnosed with ADD from my brain injuries. I graduated grad school with a 4.1 GPA one year prior to my first injury so it's obviously not a prior condition. My lawyer is not sending this info on to anyone, nor does she seem to have any interest in it. Is that how it rolls in California?