[TCTC]

My wife was badly injured in a car accident where an 18 wheeler ran a stop sign and ploughed into her. She was in a coma, came out with TBI (traumatic brain injury), cyclo-rotation of one of her eyes causing double vision to this day, plus several other things..

Let's say the accident happened 03/01/2012. She worked from the time she was 15 and became a stay-at-home mom back in 11/2005 at the age of 29.

We just applied 2 months ago because we were hoping she'd eventually get better, but she hasn't. We didn't want to unnecessarily take benefits if she was going to get better.

However, we were denied by social security because they said her accident would have had to occur by 12/31/2010 to be covered. Is there anything we can do?

We were waiting until our kids were both in school before she went back to work, but she's never going to be able to hold a job now.