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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Arthritis / March 2005SSDI!!!!
I got my letter today that said my decision was fully favorable....I am so excited...I can't believe it and I didn't have to go to court.... Just wanted to share some good news... Hugs Cindy Cindy, that's wonderful! Doing a happy dance. Gwen > I got my letter today that said my decision was fully favorable....I am so > excited...I can't believe it and I didn't have to go to court.... > > Just wanted to share some good news... > Hugs Cindy Can I ask you some questions about that by email? I am thinking about applying and was wondering some things. >I got my letter today that said my decision was fully favorable....I am so >excited...I can't believe it and I didn't have to go to court.... > > Just wanted to share some good news... > Hugs Cindy Sure Rhonda, I would be glad to answer any questions...my address is cindyl57 and make that at sbcglobal.net Cindy > Can I ask you some questions about that by email? > I am thinking about applying and was wondering some things. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >> Just wanted to share some good news... >> Hugs Cindy Thats good news Cindy. I had to go before a judge and its a long process to get to that point. However, it was worth it for me. debbie m. http://www.angelfire.com/ga2/angels1/ > I got my letter today that said my decision was fully favorable....I am so > excited...I can't believe it and I didn't have to go to court.... > > Just wanted to share some good news... > Hugs Cindy > Thats good news Cindy. I had to go before a judge and its a long process to > get to that point. However, it was worth it for me. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Just wanted to share some good news... > > Hugs Cindy Cindy: Great news. Very happy for you. I know how much of a burden the worry can be. Happy chair dance, progressing... Smokie Darling (Annie) Congratulations Cindy. I was approved on the first try and I remember the feelings of relief and comfort when that letter arrived. Ann >I got my letter today that said my decision was fully favorable....I am so >excited...I can't believe it and I didn't have to go to court.... > > Just wanted to share some good news... > Hugs Cindy well, that IS good news! congratulations! the daily struggle is hard enough, without having to add a struggle to get benefits you paid for. glad the system worked the way it should for you, cindy. kate >I got my letter today that said my decision was fully favorable....I am so >excited...I can't believe it and I didn't have to go to court.... > > Just wanted to share some good news... > Hugs Cindy Incredible good news. I remember I had refused to even think they would approve it right away. So sure I'd have to fight it all the way. Talk about a relief. Especially when you don't really have any extra fight left in you. Jo Happy Chair Dance!!!! DeeTee ________________________________ DeeTee and Bob Taggart http://www.marykay.com/dtaggart3 http://mysite.verizon.net/vze8fwov/ ________________________________ >I got my letter today that said my decision was fully favorable....I am so >excited...I can't believe it and I didn't have to go to court.... > > Just wanted to share some good news... > Hugs Cindy Yippee. Keep wondering if I should do this. Can't concentrate well enough to hold a job now. sigh Duckie > I got my letter today that said my decision was fully favorable....I am so > excited...I can't believe it and I didn't have to go to court.... > > Just wanted to share some good news... > Hugs Cindy  Signature_('> (_<_) _ _('< -quack (_<_) _ __('< *QUACK!* <_{__) _('< "|,,|_" (_<_) _('< "AFLAC!" (_<_) Oh Cindy, I am so happy for you. Doing the happy chair dance right now. That is great news. Congrats. SignatureLove and hugs to all Good thoughts coming your way too. Squirrely Jo >I got my letter today that said my decision was fully favorable....I am so >excited...I can't believe it and I didn't have to go to court.... > > Just wanted to share some good news... > Hugs Cindy Cindy, Great news. Did you have to be in a chair to get the disability? Also, how much does the governemnt pay monthly in financial benefits? Thanks, K hooray, cindy! this takes some of the unneeded stress off your shoulders. diane K, no I didn't have to be in a chair...I mean I am not...I have OA, FM, Anxiety and Depression...And the judge said one of the these on their own would not deem me disabled, but combining them and that is what he looked at. I am sure it is my depression and anxiety that made the difference. I have a really hard time with focusing and remembering and doing more than one thing at a time... Luckily I am not bad enough for a chair yet, even though I do use the motorized carts at the supermarket on my bad days... Good luck to anyone who tries to get thier SSDI...It can be a very long process and I feel very lucky..I used a service called ALLSUP... I recommend that if you are going to do this...Well they made every step easier. We are doing my husbands with the help of an attorney. It is much different. Allsup will fill out all the necessary paperwork for you from the first day. Not waiting until you have been denied first. And they will send you the questions and then call you...Then they will fill out the paperwork as they ask questions...And they know how to ask the questions. They know what SS is looking for. It can be overwhelming. Since I am on LTD, my insurance company is the one who referred me to them. I have a friend from where I did work. She had to go on LTD and they referred her to someone else in the same field as Allsup...I don't remember the name...But she got hers on the very first try...No appeals whatsoever.. Now I am considered young...47...lol...but as I read the judges whole decision...I have to be referred to Vocational Rehab for retraining, Continue with medical recommendations...and be reviewed within the year. He does think that I will get better and can work eventually... Oh well, I am not thinking about that today...I hope I do get better. I hope this dadburn pain will go away. I hope that I can be retrained to do something I enjoy doing...And I will try...But right now it is enough to know that my disease has been validated... Sorry that this is so long...I am long winded this morning I guess.LOL Hugs Cindy > Cindy, > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > K Hi Cindy, Glad to hear that you got your benefits without a lot of hassle :) I have a question for you though..since you are only 47, what do you do about health insurance? With my present condition, the doctor said the other day that I might not be able to go back to my former job. So I'm not sure what to do at present. I'm on short term disability, and will start cardiac rehab tomorrow. Thanks and enjoy, Carole :) > K, no I didn't have to be in a chair...I mean I am not...I have OA, FM, > Anxiety and Depression...And the judge said one of the these on their own [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] >> >>K > Hi Cindy, > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Thanks and enjoy, > Carole :) hon, considering what he said---call and ask your cardiologist if you can file for ssdi and if he will fill the medical part of the paperwork out for you. if he says yes, then go for it, carole. since your job has STD, you're job probably also has Long Term Disability and medical coverage which will carry you through until medicare kicks in. if it doesn't have LTD, then ask your cardiologist what state program or other program would pick up the gap for you until ssdi (4 to 6 months) and medicare (18 months) kicks in. his staff should know this kind of thing, because they deal with this stuff all the time. and don't let anyone stonewall you about this stuff, sweetie. tell your doctor/cardiologist this---"this is *very* stressful for me, making me worry and become anxious about it and i *need* to have it resolved asap!", which should get your doctor and his staff moving on it quickly. kate >> K, no I didn't have to be in a chair...I mean I am not...I have OA, FM, >> Anxiety and Depression...And the judge said one of the these on their own [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] >>> >>>K > hon, considering what he said---call and ask your cardiologist if you can > file for ssdi and if he will fill the medical part of the paperwork out for > you. if he says yes, then go for it, carole. Ok, the next time I go to see him, I will ask him about it. The last time I saw him (last week), he said it could be one month, or two months, or I might not be able to go back to my former job. One of my problems is fatigue (I can't stay awake for the length of time that it would take me to get to work, work 8 hours plus an additional hour I have to be there for lunch, plus get back home. I'd be falling asleep by 12noon). I also need a job where I can get up and go to the bathroom whenever I need to as I am on diuretics to get the fluids out of my system so that they don't all back up in my lungs. I am going to go to Worksource this week and see if there are any funds available for retraining. I don't have the stamina to go back to teaching, and I'm seeing a lot of jobs for medical billing, so I'm going to see if I can get training for something like that. I could even do that at home. > since your job has STD, you're job probably also has Long Term Disability > and medical coverage which will carry you through until medicare kicks in. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > about it and i *need* to have it resolved asap!", which should get your > doctor and his staff moving on it quickly. Actually, the whole money situation is making me stressed. So much so that last week I had to call him and go in for a visit that was not scheduled. I was waking up during the night, and having attacks during the day of shortness of breath and chest pains. I thought I was having a heart attack or some form of one. He explained to me that since my arteries are clear, I wasn't having a heart attack (what do I know? :) He said I was having anxiety attacks, and now that he explained more of the specifics of my condition, I haven't had anymore episodes. But it is in my medical records that I was having them. I start cardiac rehabilitation tomorrow, so I'll see what happens with that. Thanks :) Carole Carole, please try not to stress too much. You have some options here. Retraining is one. Also SSDI rules say you have to be not able to work for one year at the least, and not at any job (not just your current type of work) If the doctor thinks this may be the case, then you definitely should file. But what he is telling you now is that it is short term. Also, with treatment the fatigue should get much better. As far as the diuretics go, I take them too and after they remove the initial fluid from your body and the medications straighten out the problem you will not be "running" so often. I take my diuretic pill early in the morning and after about two hours there is no problem. It wasn't like that when I first started taking them though. One thing to keep in mind is that Medicare health benefits do not kick in until you have been on SSDI for 24 months. That means you will not have benefits for that period of time. I was lucky to be able to pay my Cobra through my job which usually lasts for 18 months but can be extended up to 29 months once you are approved for SSDI (but it comes out of your pocket for those months). So, what I'm saying is don't start worrying about what may not happen. Concentrate on getting your heart problem fixed and as long as you have that short term disability you should be okay for a while. Ann Thanks, Ann. I don't think I'll be unable to work for a whole year. And I know there are other jobs I could do. I'm going to see what my job counselor has to say. Perhaps they can find me something that would be better for me. I've also thought about going to the HR dept at the company where I am working now to see if they can find me another position that would be better for me. I can't give up my benefits as this has been a HUGE expense. My out of pocket has already reached the maximum for the year ($1500 + $200 deductible), and that doesn't include copays for the doctors and all the prescriptions I have to take now. I don't even want to think about what all this would cost without the insurance! As soon as all these bills come in, my Mastercard will be maxxed out (another thing that is causing me stress). My best friend in NYC said she was going to have a fundraiser for me and sell Krispy Kremes on 5th Avenue, LOL :))) I know I'll get through all of this, I'm just going to have to take it slow and easy :) Hugs, Carole :) > Carole, please try not to stress too much. You have some options here. > Retraining is one. Also SSDI rules say you have to be not able to work [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Ann >> hon, considering what he said---call and ask your cardiologist if you >> can file for ssdi and if he will fill the medical part of the paperwork [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > Thanks :) > Carole boy, i'm so glad that those anxiety attacks stopped for you. carole, your doctor's "one or two months" prognosis is a very good indication for you that cardiac rehab will be positive for you. i didn't intend to make the ssdi suggestion sound like it would be, or even had to be a permanent situation. it used to be that if your doctor determined that you would be disabled and unable to work for over 6 months, that you could qualify for ssdi (i can check with my nephew's wife who works as a caseworker for social security in the disability insurance dept. to see if that is still the case). that is why i said to ask your cardiologist if you *can* go on ssdi. i do know that nobody *has* to be on ssdi forever and one can take his or herself off the ssdi rolls at anytime. but in this state, when one does determine it is time to remove one's self from the rolls, the state of washington assigns you a caseworker. that caseworker works with social security to vocationally test and retrain you, because you cannot return to your original profession; and it pays for that retraining while ssdi keeps you on the rolls and while you still collect ssdi. (through my caseworker, i was actually offered a chance to go back to college up through a bachelor's and a master's degree, paid for by the state. but i had an infant to care for, so my dh wasn't keen on my going to college. so, i took the shortest retraining course available at the time--real estate--to accomodate his wishes and because the state wouldn't allow me get off the ssdi rolls unless i retrained in something.) i'm sorry i wasn't more clear about what i meant. i saw ssdi as this kind of an option for you, sweetie. kate > Ok, the next time I go to see him, I will ask him about it. The last > time I saw him (last week), he said it could be one month, or two [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > seeing a lot of jobs for medical billing, so I'm going to see if I can > get training for something like that. I could even do that at home. sounds like a good plan, Carole. If you can get something you can do from home as you are getting all of this adjusted that'd be great. once you've done more of the caridac rehab and the meds are more precisely calibrated with that, you might be able to work back into something else. SignatureNann remove the Gator cheer to email me Simply the thing I am shall make me live --- William Shakespeare > sounds like a good plan, Carole. If you can get something you can do from > home as you are getting all of this adjusted that'd be great. once you've > done more of the caridac rehab and the meds are more precisely calibrated > with that, you might be able to work back into something else. Yes, I am also hoping for that, Nann :) Getting used to all these meds is a thing just in itself. Before all of this, I never even took tylenol unless I was in real pain. The only thing I took was glucosamine chondriotin. Now I have to take 9 pills with breakfast and two with dinner. And that's part of the reason for the fatigue and sleeping problems I've been having. Hugsies, Carole > I got my letter today that said my decision was fully favorable....I am so > excited...I can't believe it and I didn't have to go to court.... > > Just wanted to share some good news... > Hugs Cindy Wonderful news! I've been thinking about applying and it's gonna be such a pain with all the moving and concommitant doctor changing over recent years. and I'll have to back date it as I'm a few months past the limits for having paid in.... sigh. SignatureNann remove the Gator cheer to email me Simply the thing I am shall make me live --- William Shakespeare |
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