Let them eat cake!

Still fighting for SSI and my own Ins. company's disability... no fun. I paid for both, have been since I was fifteen.
I am a HUGE burden on my family.

[Trilby]

rkzen--I'm a specialist--I know how to score claims. My job as an occ. nurse was to try to deny claims..some claims just cannot be denied and other claims are too hairy to get into--easier to settle. PM me. As an occ health RN at GM AND AKSteel--I know what flies and what doesn't. You know that the average GM price of an auto is puffed up via three thou. b/c of ctd? (continuous truama disease)? Every time you buy a new GM auto you are subsidizing an elbow/wrist/shoulder CTD/surgery. With time off to heal. usual length --6 months. then, after said employee has been surgically fixed-90% come back with job-killing restrictions. You all expect GM to remain competitive after that? False claims have brought our production to it's knees. You wanna blame a senator for shipping jobs to China? Try blaming those who have fucked and sucked the system forever--

Originally Posted by Brianna

rkzen--I'm a specialist--I know how to score claims. My job as an occ. nurse was to try to deny claims..some claims just cannot be denied and other claims are too hairy to get into--easier to settle. PM me. As an occ health RN at GM AND AKSteel--I know what flies and what doesn't. You know that the average GM price of an auto is puffed up via three thou. b/c of ctd? (continuous truama disease)? Every time you buy a new GM auto you are subsidizing an elbow/wrist/shoulder CTD/surgery. With time off to heal. usual length --6 months. then, after said employee has been surgically fixed-90% come back with job-killing restrictions. You all expect GM to remain competitive after that? False claims have brought our production to it's knees. You wanna blame a senator for shipping jobs to China? Try blaming those who have fucked and sucked the system forever--

It's "funny" I have been told by the govt. and my ins. company that "eventually" they will have to pay and they know it, they are just putting it off for as long as they can because I am young (how long I have to live non-withstanding).
Problem is that what is wrong with me is so rare there is no name for it. What they are doing is taking each of my symptoms separately...
You can work with a herniated disk (I don't know about three, but there you go), advanced arthritis, osteoporosis, nerve damage, liver damage, broken bones, etc, etc... so they are denying the claim as many times as they can get by with.
I have one more time of just filing before getting into the review board with a lawyer with them... again.
When we get our paperwork together, I'll contact ya', thanks a lot.

[9th Engineer]

Rzkn, it doesn't matter how rare it is, if it's out there there's a name for it. What you are describing are symptoms which are isolated from each other, you would have to show that some common factor connects all of your symptoms for it to be a single 'condition'. The name for what you seem to have is 'Man with many painful injuries'.

[keryx]

Originally Posted by 9th Engineer

Rzkn, it doesn't matter how rare it is, if it's out there there's a name for it.

Not necessarily.

Whatever my dad picked up in Vietnam has yet to be identified and named. For 40+ years he's suffered from this. It has various symptoms that are treated as best as they can be, but no cure forthcoming.

Not to mention the unknown infection Mr Fargon got at the VA, unable to be cultured. Suspected to have been transmitted from one of his three room mates, all Vietnam vets.

If Rkzn says his condition does not have name, I am inclined to believe it.

[busterb]

Originally Posted by 9th Engineer

Rzkn, it doesn't matter how rare it is, if it's out there there's a name for it. What you are describing are symptoms which are isolated from each other, you would have to show that some common factor connects all of your symptoms for it to be a single 'condition'. The name for what you seem to have is 'Man with many painful injuries'.

Not so.Mike went to Mayo in Jacksonville and the DR told him, If I can't find it I can't fix it. After 3 days of test. WTF.

[Griff]

My friends son went without a diagnosis throughout his short life. I believe they named it after his autopsy. Genetic disorders don't always fit neatly into little boxes and folks don't generally have unlimited time and money to pursue a name. Ease their suffering now, work on the label later.

[Trilby]

els--i went from 50,000 year to 15,000/year. I'm still here.

[Elspode]

Mari and Stephen are surviving. And who the hell said anyone was giving up...or should give up? The issue isn't whether they will survive, at present. The issue is if they should shut up and like it, as I've been reading it.

Check back in a few years and see if Mari is still online, or if Stephen is still living independently and indoors. At this point, though, I would expect the opinon to go something like, "See, toldya you should have saved up."

Sorry, but I see some very judgemental points of view being thrown out here, mostly by people who aren't in these circumstances. Speaking from the point of view as regards my son, the only way he is living above his means is due to things either provided outright or subsidized by me. He's luckier than Mari in this way. And trust me...my kid *wants* to earn more. But he's incapable of doing so. Utterly incapable. Anyone who wants to drop by and look at his humble possessions and learn how he got them and see what he does to maintain his "lifestyle" is more than welcome to check it out. In fact, more than welcome to *try* it for awhile.

And, Bri...your current income, with tutition, child support/ADC/etc...is $15k? If not, how long did you have to subsist at that $15k level? Just curious, as that's a couple of thousand more than my kid makes right now with disability, food stamps and his job, after taxes and child support are taken out.

[Trilby]

and I've never needed to go to a food bank--thank goddess.

perhaps mari isn't praying to the right god?

thing is, els, people CAN make it. despite hardships or Absolutecan't do it-ships. even the least of us can contribute----I've a neice and a nephew who are CP--you think I or their parents feel they are doomed? Hardly.

[Trilby]

els--my income is indeed 15,000/year. I used to bring down 50,000/year. I lived on 535/mo with 200/mo in food coupons for five months. I fed a 14-year old on 200/mo--that breaks down to 50/week for food for a teenage boy who measures 6'1" and 180 pounds. i have a sister who is raising two children who suffer from CP--a 14 year old girl and a 10 year old boy. Because I prodded them, the parents applied for bene's. it depends on mom and pop's income how much the children are entitled to. every year they submit their income to get an estimate for the two disabled children. both children suffer grand mal seizures, ADD, fine-motor disability and more. You think we've all forsaken them? No.

i've lived on 535/mo with 200/mo food stamps for six months including a 15 year old boy. It can be done. Currently i am living on 1600/mo. i was awarded a stipend b/c i won a scholarship--i applied and won it based on merit. sue me.

PS-as a workingRN i made 2300/month.

[Elspode]

Girl, I'm not getting snippy with you about what you've done for yourself (quite the contrary, I remember at least one PM wherein I lauded you for your efforts), nor did I say anyone was abandoning anyone. I did say that a time would come when there wasn't someone around to take care of my kid. That might happen to your relatives, too, some day.

Screw it. I'm getting too defensive here. I guess I'll just leave it at "handicapped people deserve what happens to them if they aren't miserly" before I piss off a friend.

[lumberjim]

Originally Posted by mariwhatever

A year ago when I bought the dog, I was allowed to earn $400.00 extra dollars per month by SSDI.

allowed? meaning, if you earned more than that, you'd lose your benefits? isn't that a little fucked up? couldn't you earn more than that plus the meager benefits that you whine about if you moved out of the mountains and looked for work?

it sounds to me like you;re content with the deal you have worked out, and are happy with that lifestyle. that's great. i still have to pay my taxes, and they won't get any cheaper if you get a job.

my only advice on this topic is that if you are unhappy with the product supplied by the food bank, let them know it by not patronizing it. maybe they'll go out of business, or a competitor will arrive and outshine them.


then again, if you got too hungry, you could always eat a dick

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by lumberjim

allowed? meaning, if you earned more than that, you'd lose your benefits? isn't that a little fucked up?

Yeah. It ought to be set up so that for every dollar you earn, you lose 50 cents of SSDI, or something like that, to make it easier to ease back into the workforce.

[Trilby]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

Yeah. It ought to be set up so that for every dollar you earn, you lose 50 cents of SDDI, or something like that, to make it easier to ease back into the workforce.

mr. Obvious? No.

the 'system' should help the helpless to engage in society. It's good for the mental health plus more. You wanna deprive good people the chance to contribute? talk to someone else. Lots of folk want to m atter...you can volunteer without loss of benes....or didn't you know that?