I could not agree with you more. Disability, SS or State or Insurance, is not a "Hand Out." These are things we have earned and paid for. In the past ten years I had a couple of prolonged periods of unemployment that drained my savings and retirement funds. A sad lesson I learned was that as I got older and more advanced in my profession I was less employable. So, add to the age factor the big "C" and nobody will touch you with a decent work offer. Take you disability with pride, you've earned it!
Richard Troxel, CPA
dx 2/2003 IM 3/2003 PCRU 9/2004
On 11/10/05, Patricia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
For those of you finding yourself not able to continue to work, you
are not alone. I didn't work a day after being told I have CML. In
hindsight, my job performance sucked prior to diagnosis and I started
missing a lot of days. It was all I could do to get through the day. I
knew I had something seriously going on with my body and in spite of
my fears, I just was too scared to know. My first fear thought was
cancer and my gut feeling was right...lucky for me I got a kind that
can be controlled.
As for disability, I was terrified in the beginning. I kept asking my
doctor about it and he'd say well, lets see how you do in a month or
two. Well, in a month or two, I'm gonna lose everything I've worked
all my life to have. My husband became disabled prior to myself and it
took him 3 years to get his, mostly because he had a suck lawyer. I
knew if we had to wait that long, we would lose everything. I gave up
on the doctor and filed in May 2004 and got my first check in July 2004
(I was diagnosed Nov. 28th 2003) I was totally shocked I had been
approved so easily. I don't know if it is like this in every state,
but in TN, if you apply and are denied, you can then take those denial
papers to a disabilty lawyer and the lawyer will fight for you to get
it. They get paid when you do. I really went through some emotional
issues after being diagnosed as disabled. I felt like I was taking a
handout, that I was just worthless. I've since learned that it is not
a handout, it's my money that I've paid in out of every check I earned
for the past 20 years. I am not worthless, I just can't work right
now, but there are other things to do in life. I remember being at
work thinking I wish I didn't have to work, I'm sick of working...and
then when I wasn't able to work...it's God, how I wish I could go back
to work. The average human is never satisfied. As we southerners say,
"you don't miss your water, until your well goes dry."
I don't dwell on it anymore....I just take one day at a time and try
to enjoy it. It is nice to not have to get up early in the mornings,
make that commute to work, have to be nice to everyone you come in
contact with even tho you are so sick and hurting so bad, you just
want to cry. Good Luck to those of you trying for SS.
Love, Peace, Hope & Prayers, Pat
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