approved for disability!
 

I had my disability hearing on jan. 10th and got my decision in the mail on the 15th. so that was quick. does anyone know if your on foodstamps all that time your waiting on disability if you have to pay them back out of your back pay? my friend got all her money within two weeks of her decision so i hope mine is to. I have waited two years for this but according to my decision letter the judge found me disabled 12 mo before my app. date so i guess they are going back a year before i allpied for my disability but i was on a little work comp in that time period so i know i will have to pay the comp back. or at least i think i will. if anyone knows any more info about what kinds of stuff you would have to pay back please let me know. thankyou.

Does SSDI know that you were on WC ?

For me, it was that my backpay check from SSDI was less because of WC, but I didn't have to pay anyone back anything.

Here is a link that may or may not help you. A lot of people say congratulations but I don't think that's the right word, especially when you've just been found very ill, so I like to say I hope your life stays functional.

http://ssa-custhelp.ssa.gov/app/answ...20compensation

Here is a second link that may help also.

http://www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/10018.html

That is a great way of putting it. When I was approved my wife and I were so relieved because we had exhausted all of our savings and my wife's pay was not enough to pay the mortgage, bills and put food on the table and I am too sick to work. SSDI was a blessing for us.

I appreciate LM's sentiment on that, but many of us are not 'very ill' My life has changed greatly because of TOS, RSD, and fibro, but none of those conditions are going to kill me anytime soon, they just make me physically disabled and unable to work.

TOS, RSD, and fibro all include pain in their symptoms. They are all chronic illnesses. If you have them then you are in pain and are ill longterm. you dont have to die from something for it to be an illness.

They are chronic medical conditions, not chronic illnesses. Illnesses get better, kill you, or are a reaction to a real or perceievd disease state that cause certain behaviors.

I am a stickler for trying to use the right word at the right time to describe a situation. Disease and illness do not mean the same thing.

from: http://www.differencebetween.net/lan...s-and-disease/

You may have heard about the terms illness and disease on a regular basis. Do the terms mean the same things? Well, almost, but not quite. There is some difference between the usages of the terms, so you should be careful while using them.

Illness and disease both cause the same feelings of discomfort, pain or unease in people. However, an illness is more of a subjective feeling. This means that there is really no identifiable reason behind the condition. Of course, if the condition behind the illness is identified, it is more often referred to as a disease. However, in more generalized terms, we can define an illness as a state where the person has feelings of pain or discomfort that does not have an identifiable reason.

A disease refers to a condition where the body or the parts of the body of a person does not work properly. There is usually a pathological reason behind the condition.

Pathogens are those agents that may cause a disease in a person. For instance; there may be a bacterial or a viral attack on some part of the body that causes feelings of pain and discomfort in the person. It may also include such pain or discomfort that is caused by a particular malfunctioning of the body due to other factors. For instance, mental diseases are diseases that cause the typical symptoms of discomfort and abnormal functioning. However, the reason behind such a condition is rarely related to pathogens. Once the reason behind such discomfort has been identified, it is usually referred to as a disease.

In medical terms, a disease is described as an abnormal condition in any organism that obstructs its bodily function. It may, in rare cases, even cause the death of the person concerned. If we use it in a broader sense, it may even refer to disabilities and injuries, infections and deviant behavior. It is important to note that even the brain is a human organ, and is therefore prone to illnesses and disease. The main effect of a disease is felt when a particular organ of the body or the body as a whole fails to maintain its condition of balance and stability. This condition is referred to in medical terms as homeostasis.



It is important to note that both illness and disease result in more or less the same symptoms. However, an illness can be cured in most cases. For instance, cold, flu or gastrointestinal diseases can be cured by treatment. However, there are a number of diseases that cannot be cured. In medical terms, both are undesirable, as they interfere with the state of homeostasis.

Summary:

1. An illness is a vague condition that causes discomfort or pain. A disease refers to a condition that has established reasons behind it.
2. An illness is mostly curable. There are some diseases that cannot be cured, only managed

Difference between illness and disease........

http://www.associatedcontent.com/art...pg2.html?cat=5

In a previous article I wrote here on Associated Content, I advised first semester nursing students to think like a nurse and not a doctor. This mentality will help student nurses understand the difference
between illness and disease. As a nurse, you will need to diagnose the human response to your patient's medical problem. That is why there are specific nursing diagnoses you will learn and familiarize yourself with. A physician can diagnose a patient as being diabetic (disease.) But if that diabetic patient does not monitor his glucose levels or make necessary changes in his diet, the nurse can diagnose him with risk for unstable glucose levels (illness.) Thus, nursing is concerned with illness while medicine (or a physician) is concerned with disease.

To simplify, with my condition, if I chose to just stay in bed for the rest of my life because that makes it easier to deal with the pain, I would be ill.

I understand self care. I have learned measures to make my pain more bearable and to maximize my daily functioning. I am not ill.

After Thanksgiving, I had a really bad cold and could barely function, Every cough brought some urinary incontinence and I could barely haul myself to the bathroom to change my pjs. The laundry piled up and I could not even imagine getting well enough to worry about doing the laundry. Then, I was ill.

On a happy note, I spent so much in bed that week, my pain was much better :rolleyes:

The term chronic means long term and to not end. People have died from pneumonia that is not a disease but is an illness, and people die everyday from pneumonia. Your right echoes it is all very painful and that is why pharmaceutical companies make billions of pain pills.

http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/chronic

A disease is a certain part of your body has a condition:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/disease

If you have a disease you have an illness, illness is a noun describing disease.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/illness

No, it isn't. I am disabled. I have diseases. I am not ill. I find that word to be offensive as applied to me based on my understanding of it's actual meaning, so I would appreciate it if you would stop using it to apply to all disabled persons.

"People have died from phenomena that is not a disease but is an illness"

Per the National Institutes of Health of the United Staes of America, pneumonia most definitely IS a disease. http://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/pneu...s/default.aspx

Pneumonia is a lung disease. Pneumococcal pneumonia can infect the upper respiratory tract and can spread to the blood, lungs, middle ear, or nervous system.

I thought you said there was a difference between illness and disease? I have never heard of anyone dying from a phenomena. Illness and disease are synonymous with each other.

From your post.

Pneumococcal pneumonia mainly causes illness in children younger than 2 years old and adults 65 years of age or older.

it may offend you but my diseases or conditions peripheral neuropathy, chronic asthma, chronic bronchitis leave me in chronc pain and diminshed capacity and leave me feeling ill as in not well. That difference that you feel between what is an illness and what is a condition or disease is your opinion. There are many differing opinions on that as a cursory glance at usage and definitions will suggest. You are splitting hairs.

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Something can be both an illness and a disease, that does not mean all diseases are illnesses or vice versa.

My diamond is a rock. All rocks are not diamonds......get it ?

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Echoes,

It's not 'just' my opinion. It is the opinion of english dictionaries and the entire medical community. You may feel ill, but all disabled people do not feel the same way that you do.

Some people not educated on the difference between the words use them interchangably. That does not mean it's correct to do so.

There is a difference.

I'm sure that you haven't heard of too many people dying from a phenomena. Unfortunately, that is how YOU misspelled pneumonia in a previous post......As you are aware, since you went back and edited the spelling......but not before I had copied and pasted it.

I am a little confused as to why you did not recognize your own quote and then tried to make fun of me for your error. :rolleyes:

Why are you guys arguing over words? finz, you have the god given right to say that you are disabled and not ill. No one will argue this point. But there again, everybody has the right to use which ever terminology they choose to describe their situation. I personally have several disabilities and some of these disabilities do make me very ill. Is it not my god given right to describe it this way if I choose to? This is a discussion forum, not an english class.

That's the core of the issue RLJ.......everyone else does have the right to describe their condition however they want to. I have not and would not dispute that. The problem is that some people here are making judgements about ALL disabled people that are grossly incorrect. All disabled people are not ill.

All disabled people do not have diseases. All disabled people are not ill. If you broke your neck in a fall and are paralyzed from the neck down, you are disabled, but you don't have a disease. If a child is born without limbs, they are disabled, but not diseased or ill. If a soldier losses limbs in a military skirmish, he is going to be ill for some time. If they recovery goes well, he might end up being disabled, but won't be ill anymore, and won't have a disease.

I will always try to educate and change the misconceptions people have about the disabled.

You should take a deep breath and calm down finz and learn to choose your battles more wisely. This is so not worth having a tantrum over.

no one here said all disabled people are ill. if you have lost limbs or are blind you may well not be ill. what i said is that someone with rsd, tos and fibromyalgia and the resulting pain and limitations is ill. Most people who have any one of those usually feel ill never mind all 3. if you have those 3 and have no symptoms and no pain then you certainly are the exception.

Finz,
I understand completely what you are saying. I don’t understand what you mean about passing judgment. People ask for advice and support here and other people give it. How is that considered passing judgment? I just don’t see the purpose for arguing with someone about the terminology they use. It dose not matter if I say or anyone else says I am disabled or ill because most of the time, I know what they mean. Is it not true that some illnesses lead to disability and some disabilities lead to more illness? Whether it's a disability or an illness, it is a problem that most people in this forum have or they wouldn't be here. They come here asking for advice or support and you decide you don't like their words or how they use them so you choose to argue with them or the person giving the advice or support. I simply don't see any point in it and I may be wrong but I'm sure there are others here that would agree. If you don't want people saying that you are ill, simply put something in your signature stating that. I don’t mean to offend you and I'm not holding it against you in thinking you can educate everybody on this forum or any other forum for their misconceptions of a couple of words, I suppose that is your right. But I personally think you would have better luck shooting fish in a barrel.

LM has referred to all disabled people as being ill.....repeatedly

I responded to something LM said assuming someone was ill because they are disabled in this thread after reading her similar sentiments in another thread. She HAS said that ALL disabled people are ill and I corrected her on that. Per LM: "Like I told someone else, I don't like to say congratulations to someone who has lost body parts and will be ill the rest of their life" I'm disabled. I have not 'lost' any body parts that I am aware of and while I'm sure I will have some sick days, I certainly don't plan on being "ill the rest of my life"

I tried to enlighten her *edit*. That's it........

Never said anyone here wasn't ill

or

threw a tantrum

I have had to do an edit above and would like to give a reminder that making negative personal comments about other members here is against our guidelines.
One can correct information that is not accurate without becoming personal.

A request to *all* to please not let this thread deteriorate into a pedantic personal back and forth between individuals as that really is not helpful to anyone!



thanks

Hi RLJ.

I don't think you do get my point, because it's not about me being called 'ill' or "a misconception of a few words" This is about being against stereotyping and prejudice. That's what it is called when someone generalizes about an entire group of people, making assumptions about what they are, or are not capable of.

point made and well taken Finz.

After reading the post by Chemar above, I will not post any more comments on this subject. I consider the conversation closed.