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03-17-2011, 11:35 PM | #1 | ||
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I hope for the best, and keep positive thinking, but it's been over 3 years that they owe me for now, and I really need this income. I don't choose to sit home all day over working. I've always worked and I had a good union job with job security. I didn't give it up because I wanted to. I did it because I had to. |
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03-18-2011, 05:40 PM | #2 | |||
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03-18-2011, 06:11 PM | #3 | ||
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Hi Steve,
Welcome to NT ! I hope the judge decides in your favor.
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03-19-2011, 12:39 PM | #4 | ||
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thank you! I'm hoping for the best, and I don't know what to do if this judge denies me. I wish there were a way for them to experience the pain and issues of the applicant for 1 day just to see what it feels like and then they could make a proper decision. I'm certain that if they could feel our pain literally they would not deny people. I'm going to keep holding my breath for the next few weeks and if everything goes ok I'll get the fully favorable decision I should have received years ago.
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stevesworldnyc. Conditions: 4 cervical herniated discs, Peripheral Neuropathy, chronic kidney stones, Spinal Stenosis, 8 herniated discs (4 lumbar, 4 cervical), migraine headaches, sciatica, radiculopathy, HIV, lipid disorder, insomnia. Meds: Oxycodone, metaprolol, Atripla, Tizanidine, Frova, Ambien, Dronabinol, Combivent, Topomax, Crestor, Albuterol Sulfate via nebulizer, Advair, Trimethobenzamide, Excedrin Migraine, and Miralax. |
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03-19-2011, 06:06 PM | #5 | |||
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03-19-2011, 07:22 PM | #6 | ||
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You are gonna laugh, but I was actually working for many years for a healthcare company as an admin, while writing and doing comedy on the nights/weekends. So I was in clerical union. Had no problem at all getting my disability pension. It was as simple as filling out the form and submitting dr. letters, then having them revised to suit the company's wording requirements. I naively thought that with my numerous health issues that SSDI would be just as simple. I worked for a couple of years after I was hurt, until the migraines started, then I just couldn't do it anymore. Just taking the subway would bring on the migraines, and if I made it into work then the fluorescent lights would bring them on, or a particular smell, and I'd inevitably end up spending half the day in an unused conference room balled up on the floor with the lights off and door shut, dark and quiet, running to the bathroom when the nausea hit. I could work with the pain from the 8 bad discs, the HIV and it's associated issues, the athsma, everything except the migraines. Once they hit I was done. I had a very cool boss who saw me kind of going downhill and put up with my memory problems and absenteeism and illness without a complaint most of the time. (He did complain once, when I was out sick a few days and locked his yankees tickets in my desk, but that's another story).
Anyway, I'm a nervous wreck now because I've spent all my retirement money over the last 4 years buying a home to retire in etc, and I was depending on my SSDI coming through. I actually thought I would be getting pension, SSDI and LTD all at the same time. The pension covers basics but when stuff like insurance and costs related to flying to NYC for back treatments bimonthly come up, I charge everything and that's starting to add up now that it's eaten up the savings and what was left of the retirement after the house purchase. My health insurer being my retirement former employer promised they would put me in a health plan in Florida when I moved, then went to "for profit" status and reneged, leaving me stuck flying back and forth for treatment or pay 2 grand in deductibles/copays. Once I have my medicare I'll be able to look for decent care down here since I'll be dual insured. Until then I just seek emergency care here.
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stevesworldnyc. Conditions: 4 cervical herniated discs, Peripheral Neuropathy, chronic kidney stones, Spinal Stenosis, 8 herniated discs (4 lumbar, 4 cervical), migraine headaches, sciatica, radiculopathy, HIV, lipid disorder, insomnia. Meds: Oxycodone, metaprolol, Atripla, Tizanidine, Frova, Ambien, Dronabinol, Combivent, Topomax, Crestor, Albuterol Sulfate via nebulizer, Advair, Trimethobenzamide, Excedrin Migraine, and Miralax. |
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03-19-2011, 12:32 PM | #8 | ||
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stevesworldnyc. Conditions: 4 cervical herniated discs, Peripheral Neuropathy, chronic kidney stones, Spinal Stenosis, 8 herniated discs (4 lumbar, 4 cervical), migraine headaches, sciatica, radiculopathy, HIV, lipid disorder, insomnia. Meds: Oxycodone, metaprolol, Atripla, Tizanidine, Frova, Ambien, Dronabinol, Combivent, Topomax, Crestor, Albuterol Sulfate via nebulizer, Advair, Trimethobenzamide, Excedrin Migraine, and Miralax. |
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05-31-2011, 08:03 AM | #9 | ||
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I was diagnosed with Degenerative Disc Disease and my doctor also found problems with my knees back in Feb. 2009. I have a total of 8 herniated discs and S1 nerve impingement and facet athropathy in the lumbar region. Finally I had a hearing in late April. I hired an attorney and things seemed to go pretty well. The vocation expert could not name a job that would allow for my limited mobility or not being able to sit for more than 45 mins.
But it is annoying that the Judge may take 2-4 months to make a decision. And now I am hearing that if you DO win you have to wait an additional 5 months before getting your benefits ?? Being in constant pain is bad enough but with the cost of living on the rise and my husband unable to find work ... the constant 'not knowing' just makes it worse.And since I live in Arizona I am on their form of Medicaid called AHCCCS and the governor is trying to cut benefits to childless couples (like myself). That would mean that I would no longer be able to afford my thyroid and high blood pressure meds unless my disability comes through. I guess all I can do is wait and wait some more. But thanks for allowing me to vent. |
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05-31-2011, 12:31 PM | #10 | |||
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well your at the right place to "vent".first llike to say welcome .glad you found us.we all here are going thru like what your going thru.i have been out of work to since2009 to.i also cant sit more than 45min like you.my case is being appealed.but just want to let you know that any time you have a question or want to talk were here to listen.oh by the way this section of the forum here was started by me and a real kind person by the name of "Legalmania".if it werent for her we all be lost and deperate here
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