Posted by Krazy Kat on June 20, 2002, at 22:44:28
In reply to Re: ..disability better, posted by Willow on June 20, 2002, at 21:36:44
oh, willow:
please forgive my typing - i am very tired. thank you, love, for your comments:
> > this man also asked me how i've been recently - i wasn't going to lie, so I said "better". But does he understand that that does not mean "cured"? I doubt it...
>
> Oh Kat, I wish you had brought your spouse in to answer that question. An optimist always looks at the bright side, apparently for a disability application you have to dwell on the negatives, (which for me is too painful to admit that any exsist.)My poor hubby had to go into the city for several meetings today. The State called me on Monday (!!) of this week re: this appt. and said it would be at least another month if I didn't come in. So, we're stuck -- hubby has to go to meetings to try to pay bills, I have to go to this meeting alone to try to get funds to pay bills. It's not fair... But, you are correct. I needed him there.
>> I'm currently still receiving my assistance but I've had to appeal to have it continued and emotionally I'm not going there, so I have a lawyer looking after it for me because in my opinion it will not help me on the road to "living."
Yes, yes. I need to be able to turn it over to someone. I'm FREAKING about bills this month and that doesn't help. We have worked so hard and tried so hard. When I was "really" ill all I could think about was if I would survive that day. But now, I can think beyond that. It's kind of a curse...
>> I hate to be the one to tell you but often there are no cures for some of these conditions anymore than there is a cure for me having straight hair. I need to accept my hair as it is or perm it, and neither option is ever going to make it curly permanently, so I live with it and or put a hat on. (Slip in any symptom for hair.)
My hair is Curly and I wish it were Straight. ;) Weird, huh? I understand. I'm actually not as concerned about a cure as these, can I say, IDIOTS, seem to be. Even my Mom, who is having a really tough time with this, seems to have come to a point where she sees it as an "on-going" thing. Oh, and she used the term "biochemical" today. Really groovy. (She's a very bright woman.)
> Your psychiatrist filled out the application too? Hang tight, don't expect anything either way, and once you get an answer proceed forward.
No, they didn't give him any "forms" just asked for his notes. He called me right after he received their request, and said that it was unusual. Asking for his notes, is like asking for my journal over the last two years - there's no filter or scientific rehash. He's not happy with it either (I'm really fortunate to have this man).
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