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Re: Experience applying or disability?

Posted by sleepykitty on August 19, 2003 at 16:30:27:

In Reply to: Re: Experience applying or disability? posted by Austin on August 19, 2003 at 15:00:23:

I really appreciate your thorough spelling out of the process. I am in the initial app process of applying for SSDI. I don't intend to have an attorney unless it gets too much for me to handle w/o one. I do have some contacts that will help me in the legal field if I find myself in a bind.

Austin, I forget your story from your previous posts, and don't have time right now to go read them, but surely you realize that having N affects all of us differently, and there are many PWN who are truly unable to work at any job.

I am only 36 and because of the stress I have been thru in the last 3 yrs, I am fully disabled. Not able to do any job for even part time hours. No energy, must nap when I have to or will become stumbling drunk, staring trances, inability to concentrate, etc. No job that I have seen or heard of in the past 3 yrs would work for me. Housework is so overwhelming, that I only do what absolutely must be done, and I am not sleeping my days away. Just not fully functional, even if my brain still works well sometimes.

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