A New Day

This clinic is in a hospital, and they say they are desperately searching for a replacement or maybe even two since the practice has grown so large.  I'm just terrified they're not going to find someone in time to keep us current on our meds, or that they'll find someone who has a totally differently approach to PM.  We've been through so much together.  He's compassionate, and doesn't hesitate to prescribe what I need to make me as comfortable as possible as I try to keep working. These meds. are they only thing(other than my faith) that give me any quality of life.

His PA told me to do my homework on disability, and to bring in anything that the doc has to complete into my next appointment, & he'd get his part completed. I've come to the realization that I don't need more meds, aqtiq, or Fentora. I need to accept that I can't continue to teach. I was ok with what I am on over the summer & even better when I wasn't working. It's just too much for me.  I don't know when I'm going to quit yet, since I can't until my husband gets a job. I don't know about dating paperwork for disability and so many other things, my head is spinning. I know I've got to take it one day at a time and try to stay calm, keeping faith.

Thanks again to all of you for being here for me.  I know my sharing with you it's saving my poor mother a lot of concern and feelings of helplessness.

You can only apply starting the day you quit work or are let go because of your medical condition. So, if you feel that you are not going to go back to teaching this fall, then you need to officially quit asap so that you can file.

If you have a less clear cut condition, like back pain, depression, or fibromyalgia, Social Security will have to determine both whether you are unable to work and whether you won't be able to work for at least a year. If you work up until the time you apply for disability, this can throw doubt on your claim that you can't work.

You'll need to provide evidence that, even though you were working when you applied for disability, you weren't succeeding. In your application for disability (the Adult Disability Report), Social Security asks you questions about your last job. If your medical condition caused you to be absent or reduce your hours, or if your employer had to give you special help for you to complete your job despite your impairment, make sure you include this.

I certainly don't know everything about this but I know a lot more now that I have filed myself a few months ago and have been reading up on every single detail I can get my hands on.

You can go to the website http://www.ssa.gov/disability/  and learn all about it..