More Obstacles

Okay there is more drama and more obstacles in my way to make me want to give up and say "I Surrender". But my daughter--in-law says I can't give up now. Okay the appeal has been filed with the hearing board and I did that on the 23 of January. when I went to the SSO last week, the girl I spoke with said that she saw the "pending appeal in the system. So on Monday 3/9/09, I received a call from the attnys making sure that the appeal had been filed as this was my last day without having to start the whole thing over again. I called the 800 # for SS just to verify. Again nothing in the system. Being this was the last day, I was ready to kill someone just did not who to kill at this point. So I got up this morning and took my husband to work so that I would be at the SSO when it opened. And I was. I got a very nice lady who was not sure where the other girl had found her information last week. Instead of telling me that there was no pending appeal, she got on the phone with her supervisor who told her where to look for the info. this is where the going got tough. The intercom calling people back was so loud that the lady could not even hear her supervisor. She had to go to her and apologize for not being able to hear and asked her to help her in her office. Which she did and they did find the info I needed. She also asked that they turn the intercom down as it was so loud no one could hear. She asked me if it was that way in the lobby and advised her that it was really deafening. Back to the story!!! I asked if I could get a print out of the pending appeal info and was told again that I could not have one because it was done electronically. I advised that my attny needed it for his file. (even though they have not actually said they would take the case) Sometimes you have to pull all the stops. Wish I had more for this but I don't. Anyway, when she came back from her sups desk, she had a print out showing where they received my request for appeal on January 28 and where they started review on Feb 27. Wow, a whole month!!! What a surprise!!! Now it shows screened and ready for an analyst to review. But now I have a number to the office where the appeal is actually being reviewed. That was their first mistake, to give me a number t0 reach someone through. Of course, trying to get through is the first obstacle to have to fight. Anyways, as of now it is back to wait and see status again. In the meantime, I guess I just need to lay down and die so that I won't have any trouble receiving it this time. If I am dead, I would be able to draw it so, I guess that is when I will get it. Therefore they don't have to pay out too much. But seriously, this is getting ridiculous!!!!! So we will play the waiting game again and see what hoops I have to jump through next.