The SSI Aggravation Issue Part II  

It was actually the supervisor from the SSA office that my representative called and I just bet she was pissed off as I'm betting she did give a mouthful from her. Thank goodness my Congressman is a pretty big wig here in NY area...very well known, so any representative of his has clout as well.
LOL-speaking of sleep I could nod off now since I was up so early..I'm so tired and drained at the moment otherwise I'd be doing a happy dance

I'm doing the happy dance right along with you Pye! It's such a pain in the neck to have to fight your way through life all the time, so this is really a nice ending to your story... just love it. Take care girlfriend!

Glad to hear your mother is getting better. Five months that's a long time to have that health problem..and here's hoping you get back on track with your rent. I imagine she had a lot of expensive medical bills right?

It seems one has a lot of hassles with our benefits system here---they sound a lot less complicated to deal with in the UK, are they?

Well Pye
When I read what you and others go through, it is certainly not that complicated here

Thank goodness I do have a good representative at my Congressman's office, and yup-I'm just betting the supervisor at SSA wasn't thrilled by being told what to do...LOL.

Lecanis, I wish you all the best in your application for your son. As for you, if you have not been to a doctor for your condition, the SSA may set up appointments for you to see their doctors for the purpose of evaluation. It's limited as all get-out, but if you can't afford or get to a doctor, it's not a total stop for your own application.

*hugs*

Well I hope you don't get the run around with SSI for your son--LOL..maybe you should seek your Congressman to speed things up. Congrats on getting a driver's license...oh, I never learned to drive so don't have a driver's license and I'm 54

Thanks for the tip, blummus! :D

Hehe, thanks, pye, maybe I should do that! And I totally understand on the license thing.. I sort of just didn't have a chance when I was younger, and as I got older it got harder and harder. Friends kept promising to teach me and then not doing it, or starting with comments like "everyone knows how to drive, here, just show me" and making me want to kick their teeth in because I was asking them to teach me because I didn't know!

I finally wound up taking a driving class, which was pretty hilarious because I was with a bunch of 15-year-olds taking it! One of them hit on me... lol.

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It was sorta hilarious though. I was like "Umm, I'm almost twice your age..."

But most of the kids seemed to think I was 18-20 ish. lol

Bet that made you feel good then :-)

Yeah she was rather rude. I guess that representative must have been on her case so didn't like being told what to do

Wow, you are doing great to be up and MyLotting. When is the next one?

Next Monday.

How many more procedures do you need? Did you have the same problem of not sleeping like you did last time?

Well, it's 2:54am right now, so I am having trouble sleeping. LOL I gave in and put a pain patch on, but they make me depressed like I've never been before. I quit wearing them about a week after he first prescribed them. The mental torment from depression was way worse than the pain. I'm hoping tonight the pain can go away long enough for me to sleep, and then I can rip it off in the morning. I'm supposed to wear it three days, and then change the patch. No way can I stand them that long.

I should have just this last neck procedure this coming Monday, and then the month after I'll probably have the back surgery where they'll cut me open near my lower back, and then hopefully just remove one piece of a disc. I think the worst is over.

I didn't realize pain patches could cause depression...gee, that sucks...like darned if you do and darned if you don't. Sheesh no wonder I'm anti-meds--most I take is good old aspirin

I wish aspirin would work for my pain. Before my car wreck ten years ago, the only time I had to take something stronger than motrin, was when I got a migraine. Ah, those days...

I had to take the patch off about 6 hours into wearing it early this morning. I was getting shaky and close to crying. I was hoping I had imagined how bad it was before, but I wasn't. I won't be using another patch. I'm just going to tough it out until I see him again.

I am with you, no bad news. Lots of new users on MyLot it appears, and mostly I am being nice to them.

I think they hope that a person will simply give up and walk away into the sunset without making a fuss...uh, they don't know me...LOL

Govt workers sure get enough as far as pay, I'm guessing..if they worked like this for some other company (non-govt) they be fired in a flash. I'm almost betting all that documentation I had sent is sitting on someone's desk or shoved in a drawer somewhere and wasn't even looked at, otherwise all this crap wouldn't have dragged on so for so long. As far as that supervisor being testy, she probable also was since I had a representative from a big wig Congressman helping me out and no doubt just didn't like being told what to do.

You can't believe how draining this all is...I wasn't in the wrong...the jerks at SSA were...I just bet all that documentation is still on someone's desk somewhere