perhaps propriatory to each company . I don't think all companies offer it. I do know that if i miss 16 days of work i am eligable for short term disability which ads up to @ 600 a month.
________________________________ From: Todd Tarno <[email protected]> To: TMIC <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, September 11, 2010 3:23:25 PM Subject: Fw: Re: [TMIC] Medications my employer's disability program Roger & John, I believe it might be called Long Term Disability. Todd in CC, TX --- On Fri, 9/10/10, john snodgrass <[email protected]> wrote: >From: john snodgrass <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [TMIC] Medications >To: "Roger & Terese Pratt" <[email protected]> >Cc: "transverse myelitis" <[email protected]> >Date: Friday, September 10, 2010, 5:27 PM > > >perhaps i should talk to the HR person where I work and see what can be done? > > > >----- Original Message ---- >From: Roger & Terese Pratt <[email protected]> >To: john snodgrass <[email protected]> >Sent: Thu, September 9, 2010 10:15:57 PM >Subject: Re: [TMIC] Medications > >John, I am on disability and collect both from my employer's disability >program > >and from Social Security Disability. It adds up to about 60% of what I was >making. It wouldn't hurt to talk to someone and find out. I've been on >disability for about 16 years. My wife works, which helps alot. > >- Roger in Kennewick, WA > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "john snodgrass" <[email protected]> >To: "Janice Nichols" <[email protected]> >Cc: "transverse myelitis" <[email protected]> >Sent: Thursday, September 9, 2010 1:40:47 PM >Subject: Re: [TMIC] Medications > > > >I am going to fight this thing as long as i can without stoping working. >if i go on disability i will get @ 1400 a month if i am lucky. > >thats opposed to the @3000 i get working. > >still paying for my home. > > > > >From: Janice Nichols <[email protected]> >To: john snodgrass <[email protected]>; Janet Dunn <[email protected]> >Cc: transverse myelitis <[email protected]> >Sent: Thu, September 9, 2010 4:09:59 PM >Subject: Re: [TMIC] Medications > > >I have stopped going to my neuro. If there is a change, or something I don't >understand, I will go back. He just did not have anything new for me - >either > >meds or advice. My meds now come from my family doctor - who was right >with >me all the 9 weeks in the hospital calling in specialists for each problem > >that developed. Also, my other meds come from my Pain Management Doc who >has >been very helpful. At this point, I really don't need a neuro. > > >John, why not disability? You are in pain quite a bit. I don't know how >old you are, but I could understand doing it. > >Janice > > > > >From: john snodgrass >Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 2:57 PM >To: Janet Dunn >Cc: transverse myelitis >Subject: Re: [TMIC] Medications > > > >it really bothers me to hear of these instances of people not getting to the >Dr >or having to travel vast distances and wait times when I can go to my family >Dr >on a whim and my neurologist works at the same place as my sister-n-law and is >always asking about me and making sure i have appointments every 3 months. > >however,,,,,,going to the Dr doesnt make me any better than i would be if i >didnt go at all now. > >I just get my scripts on time and they watch for other things i reckon. >(depression talking) > >as for working,my boss and superintendant allow me to work but keep suggesting >that i go on disability. > >so does my Dr's. >one of my Dr's is a senator in this state and told me today that should i ever >not be able to go on that he would go to bat for me. > >thought that was interesting. > >I still dont understand why a dr is a senator or why is a senator is a Dr..... > >His name is Ron D Stollings > >as for hydrocodone,,,,i read on one of the med-sites that if you take 2 >tylenol >with the hydrocodone that it will do better than either one of them by >themselves.So I did,and it does. > > >then you have the extended use of acetaminophen effect that might eat your >liver > >or something. > > >Pill time,,,bye bye. > > >From: Janet Dunn <[email protected]> >To: transverse myelitis <[email protected]> >Sent: Thu, September 9, 2010 10:59:59 AM >Subject: [TMIC] Medications > > > > >Hello to all > > > >I find it very interesting the number of us that are on or have taken >hydrocodone, especially when it is “said” that opoids do not help with the >pain >of TM > > > > >For me personally, I wouldn’t make it if I didn’t have a member or two of the >hydrocodone family in my drug repertoire. I take 20mg or 40mg of long >acting > HCL in the morning, depending on the legs, and have perocdan as a filler for >the day. I also take Lyrica, Effexor, Wellbutrin and baclofen. Even today, >after 2 days of working 8 hours, and moving around and doing housework, I >hurt. > >I want to lay in bed. But . . . just like the rest of us . . . duty and life >are calling. > > > > >I really appreciate the medication information simply because I live so far >away > >from the nearest neurologist, and the wait time is up to a year, if we can get >in at all. Then we must travel either 400 miles out of province, or 850 miles >to Vancouver. So the information on here is absolutely priceless. However, >you > >cannot have my MasterCard! ;) > > > > >Janet > > > > > >From: john snodgrass [mailto:] >Sent: September 8, 2010 2:09 PM >To: Rev. Craig Crossman >Cc: transverse myelitis >Subject: Re: [TMIC] Neurologist visit > > > > > >I have been taking gabapentin 400mg for the last 2 years 3 times a day. some >people say that they can take 1 and it knocks them out. i have never >experienced > >that. perhaps because of the extreem pain. > > > >I also take hydrocodone,baclofen, and lorazepam. > > > > >
