I personally had no problem to recieve full dissability.

the hard thing was to find the way to keep on working using every possible tool and aid that I could find.

you may not know it, but even patients with ALS who are almost fully paralyzed can type on a computer. there are amazing technical tools that make it possible to do almost anything with very limited physical abilities.

even talking on the phone, can be made easier, by using a microphone or a head set so that you don't have to use your hands to hold it.

if you have an employer that is ready to be accomodative and help you find the way to keep on being gainfully employed, and doing some work from home, I personally would do my best to find the way to keep on doing it, even if only part time.

we all have our abilities and dissabilities and should just find the way to use our abilities despite the dissabilities. this is true for everyone, healthy or ill.

I just told my pulmonologist, a while ago, how hard it is for me not to be able to ask questions in a lecture (because I was one of those that always get up and ask), and he said to me, that it was hard for him too, because he is too embarssed to talk in front of a large croud.

so for him, it's his character, and for me it's my illness that is basically causing a similar dissability. and in a way mine is easier to overcome, because it is only a technical problem, and with proper accomodations and planning I was even able to give a short lecture myself.

alice