Different Day Same Story

Okay, I finally got my "denial letter" from the ALJ. I was denied due to the fact that (duh!!!!) I was trying to work to keep from going under. Which I am under anyway. If it were not for my wonderful Daughter-In-Law and Step-son, I would not know where I would be. But the issue with the Disability and the denial is that the judge didn't even ge the facts straight. First he says that I make 15,000.00 or more a year and I show I make 5760.00 a year. That is a huge difference from over 15,000.00 to 5760.00. Second he said that I work for Broadway Suites (don't know what that is). I work for Best Western, Bradbury Suites. Then he had the nerve to say that I voulunteerly left my job to move to Savannah. After I had already told him that I had to move to Savannah because I had lost my house and my car due to the fact that they had foreclosed on my house and I coukd not make my car payments. That is the reason that I tried to go back to work in the first place was to keep all of that from happening while waiting on the great system to help me. Then he said that I have gainful employment and that is why I was denied. How is working 15 to 20 hours a week at 7.00 an hour considered gainful employment??? What is that going to help me with? Don't get me wrong, it does help with small things like gas to get to the job and a few groceries, but not enough of anything to be gainful. Why does it say on the website that I can work and make up to 670.00 a month and still draw disability if that is not the truth??? I have also gotten letters of denial that say that even though I am in a great deal of pain and discomfort I am able to continue to work if I have some medicine for pain. Isn't it against the law to take prescription pain medicine and work around machines and operate a motor vehicle? If I were to take the pain medicine and drive due to the fact that SS Disability said I could do so and I had a wreck and killed myself or someone else, could my family sue SS Disability for causing my death by telling me it was okay to work and drive on drugs that say not to drive or operate heavy equipment or operate machines??? So here we go again with what the next level of jumping through their hoops again. I am so ready to give up because I don't even care anymore. It is killing me to write this but according to them I am fine.

My feet are both on fire everyday and hurt so bad that I don't know what to do. On my left foot the third toe crosses over the 4th toe and you can't even see it on my foot. And it hurts on the bottoms of both feet. It feels like the bones are being pushed through the tops of my feet. It took me about 2 hours on Sunday to find a pair of shoes that I could wear when I try to dress up and had to settle with a pair of sandals even in this cold weather due to the knots on both sides of my feet. I also had to buy new tennis shoes because the ones I wear are worn out but are formed to my bad feet. So even buying shoes is a major task. my husband went with me for the first time in a long time and will probably never go again.

So life goes on. Giving up is beginning to sound really good.