Just an Update

There is actually nothing at this time to report to anyone, however, I thought that an update might be nice for anyone interested. I have talked to my caseworker on the 3 year old appeal and she is still hopeful for a favorable decision by the appeals board, even though it might mean another hearing. I have a fllow up appt. with my regular Doctor here on January 20th. The only thing is that the doctor I was seeing is no longer there and they have scheduled me an appt with a new doctor. What this means is that there will be another report to get and send to Binder and Binder. Every report I get I have to pay for so this is really not a good thing. However, I have to keep all scheduled appts to all doctors. So I have to go. It is only a follow up so maybe it will not be something important other than the fact that I went and kept the appt. That is my hope anyway. Then on Febuary the 2nd I have to go back to Atl. to see my RA doctor. These are the most important appts to keep. Even though I have to go to Atl for these appts., and there is a complete inconvenience to my stepson and daughter-in-law(because we have to lean on them to get my husband to work the days I am gone)and it is becoming more difficult for me to drive the 3 hours, I go because without Dr. Lieberman I would not be able to do what I do today. He has been my rock as far as the doctor part is concerned. I don't have money or insurance so they take 25.00 out of my checking account every week to pay his bill and he doesn't charge me as much as other patients. He also has the lab there in his office to do my blood work and that is a big plus. Even though I have been apporved for my Disability, I have to wait until 2011 to get Medicare so I can't change doctors to Savannah, because of the cost of starting over. They want like 370.00 for first visit and the blood work is sent out to be done so yet another bill. I just can't afford to do that so going to Atl every 2 months is the best and cheapest route for me. The good thing is that since I am having dificulty in driving, my husband may have to start taking off and driving me, which would be nice except for no pay that way. Or the next thing, which I would totally LOVE, is that my daughter-in-law may start going with me.
We will get to stay overnight in a hotel and then go to the doctor first thing in the morning and hit the scrapbooking store she wants to go to!!!! Sounds like a great way to go to the doctor to me!!!!!!

News on the 3 year old appeal

Okay, I have heard from Binder and Binder on my 3 year old appeal. It is looking favorable they said that I would either be awarded more back pay or that we would have to go before the ALJ (Administrative Law Judge) again and have him retry the case. Not great news but it is good news because they said due to the fact that they awarded me my second claim, it puts me in a favorable position to have a re-trail!!! Hopefully this means that if they do this that I might not have to wait as long to recieve my Medicare benifits. I did not think to ask my caseworker that but I will next time I talk to her. The possibility of just being awarded more without the fact that I might not have to go back to court is great. Binder and Binder and the ALJ says that the appeals council can award the claim without going back to court if they want to or they can send it back to the ALJ for review on his end. Either way is ok, but I would prefer the first way better. But at this point I don't care. I can finish 3 more days of my 2 wks notice and be done with working in pain and not having to spend the next day and half in bed til time to go to work again. I will soon be a FREE Woman!!!!!

More News to Come

I spoke with my caseworker from Binder and Binder and this is just the beginning. I may still have more money coming.
This is only from the case they filed in December of 2008. So from the time I filed the original case, there may be still another year or so that might be awarded me. Due to the fact that part of the original filing was from July 2006 to Novemer 2008. From October 2006 to August of 2008 I worked full time. So we pretty much know that is a no go. But from July 2006 to September 2006 I was not working. Then from August 2008 to September 2008 I wasn't working. Then in September 2008 I started the part-time job of 12 to 20 hours a week. So we think that the money I have recieved so far is only for 6 months. I think she said like June of 2009 to now. So there is a possiblilty of more back pay if I am lucky. I won't know everything til I get my info in the mail from SS Disability showing exactly what I was paid for. So cross your fingers and keep praying that I am still waiting on more back pay and if so, that I get it soon as well!!!

IT IS OFFICIAL!!!!!!

Ok, I am pleased to let everyone who has stood beside me all of this time know that I have been approved for my Disability. I went to check my bank account this morning and to my surprise there was a deposit in my account from SS Disability. Ok, not knowing if I was dreaming or just plain crazy, I contacted Band B and Lisa informed me that I had been awarded my disability claim and I would be recieving a check every month from now on. The only draw back is that they make you wait 24 months to get your medicare, so I won't get that until June of 2011. It's okay!!!! I can do this!!! I have been through soooo much that this will be a walk in the park!! The best news of all is the fact that I can finally give my notice and quit my job. I don't have to work in pain or hurt any longer!!!!!!

I just want to thank Binder and Binder for all their help and as the ad says, they do all the work and worry and you don't have too!!!! Plus they are still working on the appeal from the judges decision back in November of 2008!!! Could still be more back pay coming!! Wow, how great would that be???

Just more waste of time/Bit of good news

Well, as I stated in the last blog, I was to see the Disability doctor on October 24. I did and he was very good and very through. And was wondering why I was still working and not on Disability. Well, as usual, the answer was they say I have gainful employment. He was not happy with that either!! But he is only the doctor they have to evaluate me. So if he had his way, I would have had Disability a long time ago. So hopefully what he writes to them will be the right thing. Although, again, it is not up to him, my future is still in the hands of people who do not have to worry about a light bill, rent, or any other bills to pay!!!! Duh!!! They work full time and have execllent Govenrmnet Benifits that you and I pay for. We pay for everything they get, yet we get absolutley nothing from them when we need it!!!!! The doctor told me of a clinic that would help me with my RA and told me where to call. Well, another down fall. The lady I talked to said that after 40 yrs. the hospital closed the clinic down. So back to round one.

Okay, now for a more positive bit of good news. I was approved by the drug company, Abbott Laboratories for free Humira for one year. This gives me a three months supply of shots at a time and is good from October 15, 2009 to October 15, 2010. So on a good note, there was a small bit of sun from this. At least until I can get some help from our WONDERFUL GOVERNMENT, this will be of some help!! Until then, I will continue to work my 15 hours a week at minimum wage and be "gainfully employed". Hope I pay enough taxes in on all that money I'm making. Wouldn't want that on my head. That millions I make at minimum wage at 15 hours could break me if it wasn't taxed right!!!

So in the end of this post, just remmeber, you work for the GOVERNMENT, and they DO NOT WORK TO HELP YOU, unless you are one of them and don't need the money to begin with. If you are one of them you have nothing to worry about!!!! If you are like me, just keep paying them and don't expect to get anything back from them. Maybe I should write something that would make them want to follow what I write and see if that would follow me for months before doing anything about it. Maybe I should write things that would scare them like everyone else does. Seems they follow every move they make, but they don't do anything about them either til they do something bad. Then it is oops, we've been watching him. Wonder should we have acted faster thatn we did!!!!!

Hopeful of help

Well, it has been a while since have written anything, but there has been nothing to wrtie. It is always hurry up and wait!! Well, after 3 months of not hearing anything from SS Disability, I finally have to go see their doctor. On October 24, 2009 I have to take a trip to Statesboro to have SS doctor take a look for himself and see just how disabiled I am. Wish they had someone to follow me around and they would see. That's asking way too much of them. Anyway, they needed more information and "proof" about the reason I am asking for disibility. Go figure, I have to have proof. Just because my atty. sent them pictures of my disibility and all the paperwork from my doctor here in Savannah and my RA doctor in Atlanta. This wasn't enough, they need more. My doctor here signed all the paperwork they wanted her to sign and she told them I needed disability and had no business working in the shape I am in. She said even 12 to 15 hours a week was too much for me to be working. But they have to have a doctor that they hired to take a look at me. How biased is that????? Anyways, I have been living on predisone for the past 3 months. Every other week I would have to call my doctor in Atl. to get me more predisone. It went from a 7 day medpak at 7.5 milagrams to a ten day medpak of 10 milagrams. Now I can't get him to give me anymore because I have had so much in the past 3 moths. In July I was off of the predisone about 3 days out of the month. In August it was a liottle better, but he has given me all I am going to get. So I guess I will have to make an appt. with my doctor here for more. Thank God they do ot contact each other before they give me the meds!!!

Back to the original matter at hand. I am looking forward to this trip to Statesboro. This doctor has no idea what kind of shape I am in. Will be interesting to see his reaction to the way I can't do things. I have to have my husband help me in and out of my clothes, fix my hair, and sometimes tie my shoes or other things where I have to move in certain directions. I even have trouble getting in and out of the tub. So he has to help me do that to. Oh and there is a travel voucher in the paperwork I got. It says they will give me 47.00 for mileage and food for the trip. Remember it took me almost a year to get 160.00 out of them. Can't imagine how long it will take to get 47.00 out of them !!!!!! Oh, well, will gve you guys an update after I have gone to the doctor a month from now. Lots of laughs on that one.. A month away, do they really think a month is going to make any difference in my condition???

More and More

Okay. We got the 160.00 from Atlanta SSO finally. It took almost a year but it finally came around the end of June. So that said and done, that is the last thing that SS has done.

In June I recieved another letter from SS stating that they had received my paperwork and I would hear something within 90 to 120 days. As usual nothing has come of that and even Binder and Biender told me that they knew that was wrong as well. SS takes their own sweet time doing anything. So i am still calling the doctor for predisone all the time. In the month of July, I was on medpaks all but about 5 days. I was trying not to call in August but finally got to where I could not even sleep on my back, sides, or anything so I had to give in. But it is not working as well this time. I am taking things I am not supposed to take with it, but they work so I have to do what I have to do. I am not supposed to take Ibuprofen with the predisone or my methatraxate. Says it can cause liver damamge if used together for long periods of time. Well, Duh!!!! Guess what?? If I am without pain taking all of it together until SS does something, I am going to do it. Maybe if something severe happens to me SS will step up to the plate!!! After I am dead like they did my cousin. They approved her just before she died.

Well, that is the update for now. By the way, if I am every approved, I am going to be sitting on the doorsteps of the congress and senate until they change the way they do things for the peopel who really need them and have to be put on back burners so the drug addicts and lying butts can get theirs!!!!! You may see me in jail before it is over, because I will not give up!!!!!!!!