Hi Peg, this is what this is all about, one person trying to help another person...
18's Marty On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:43 AM, peg <[email protected]> wrote: > Teri, I ran into the same issues with my local social security office, it > took years to get a hearing. That doesn't help you in the here and now. I > can tell you from personal experience that going to your congress person > will backfire, at least it did for me. Caused the local office to > automatically deny my appeal! You might want to contact HICAP > http://www.cahealthadvocates.org/HICAP/ Tell them that this change is > putting your life in danger and that you do not understand why you were > terminated within the appeal period. They have connections inside Medicare > and can sometimes make things happen quickly. I would not necessarily > mention that you have a lawyer if you can avoid that. Since they might > then defer all action to you lawyer. Anything they do should not affect > your legal case, I am just thinking that they may be able to get your > Medicare restored under the appeal. > > Marty...if you are still following this chain....thanks so much for the > kind thoughts. I will take all of them. I picture it like a brightly > colored parachute that I am sitting in the middle of. Each person who > wishes me well is holding a edge of this and together I am uplifted by it. > I wish you well also! > > Love to everyone...fight on! peg > > > On Tuesday, August 6, 2013 12:16:50 PM UTC-7, peg wrote: >> >> Terri, >> >> Your Nephrologist is an ass...and is not the final word on whether you >> are disabled or not, there are plenty of folks on disability because they >> are on dialysis. However, remember that you don't want to file a NEW claim >> but rather, reopen the old one. If you were to file it on the basis of >> dialysis it would start an entirely new claim with a new wait period for >> your Medicare. You want to show that your health has deteriorated as a >> result of the ORIGINAL claim, so all of that time applies to the wait and >> you could have Medicare immediately. ANY doctor that cares about you and >> recognizes that you are unable to work can file your disability. If you >> don't have one on your team that will do that for you, perhaps a disability >> lawyer can recommend one. >> >> Sorry about the tough road ahead...I relate...I have just been diagnosed >> with my third primary cancer since being diagnosed with CML three years >> ago, have had MS for 24 years and care for my husband who has brain >> damage. The best advice I can give you besides find a caring doc and a new >> lawyer is to take each day, one bite at a time. Message me any time I can >> be of help. I care. peg >> > -- > -- > [CMLHope] > A support group of http://cmlhope.com > ------------------------------------------------- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CMLHope" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CMLHope" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- [CMLHope] A support group of http://cmlhope.com ------------------------------------------------- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CMLHope" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CMLHope" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
