Thanks for your response. My atty responded very quickly via e-mail and I was impressed with his immediate response. He said he should have my file by the end of the week from SSDI and will contact me. We also discussed some recent tests I had performed since our initial meeting. I much prefer to communicate via e-mail than phone as my hearing is not so good. I ask people to repeat, repeat, repeat, and then I give up and "guess" at the "fill in the blanks" which I feel could be detrimental under these circumstances.
Attorneys are not doctors so how do they advocate for you about things that are not their expertise? What if your attorney is not familiar with your medical condition? I was thinking we would have to meet more frequently so that he could get to know me, understand my medical condition, and how it impacts my life. Or does he get all the information from my file which I am guessing will contain my application and all the other paperwork I completed? Is the only "voice" in the process just what is on paper?