--I can vouch for Mike as well; we met through having the same practice--Cornell Weill Center for Peripheral Neuropathy--dealing with our conditions, and then I got to know him when he volunteered at a YMCA on Staten Island, where I used to live. Mike will tell you very specific things about how the appliccation needs to be phrased, centered around the "functinal disability on your worst day" concept. I've referred a number of people to him over the years, most of whom did get through on the first try (not that they didn't have real disabling situations).