Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Re: [epilepsy] Finally having my SSDI hearing



Kelly,

I hope everything goes well for you at the hearing. When I went to the
hearing for my disability, I was so scared and nervous. My lawyer told me
that my nerve problems is what got my disability approved. I had tried on
seizures alone 2 other times and got turned down. If they see how much it
bothering you emotionally, it might help in the outcome. My thoughts and
prayers will be with you when you have to go. Take care.

Tammy

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Kelly Porter
<kellyporter@frontiernet.net>wrote:

>
>
> After 3 years 3 brain surgeries and many meds I am having my SSDI
> hearing on June 16th!! I will travel to Reno by on the 15the have my
> hearing the 16th and come home on the 17th. My lawyer and I will be
> having a lengthy discussion before that, but I am almost dreading the
> emotional toil this is going to have on me. All 5 of my post op
> seizures have been stress induced.
>
> The thought of trying to tell someone who doesn't know me, who has to
> determine my future, why I cant work though I "look" perfectly normal
> freaks me out. The reality is it really is "all in my head" and all in
> those pill bottles I open morning and night!! Well partially no longer
> in my head since part of what has caused this is that they took part of
> it out! A head that my husband and I have come to realize will forever
> be different emotionally and mentally--but that I can maybe learn to
> deal with if I can control my environment and the number of "boxes" and
> people I surround myself with. How can someone who has never
> experienced that decide my future for me in one meeting? Everyone I
> know has realized that I cannot deal with anything outside the "norm"
> anything outside my "schedule" anything that happens that "rattles me".
> The more that I have going on in my life the more likely that is to
> happen. The more people I have to deal with the more likely that is to
> happen. The more it happens the worse my side effects-and the worse I
> react-the worse the cycle becomes.
>
> Yet on the 16th I will go to this meeting with my lawyer and we will
> present all the information we have and then I will wait to see what
> this person determines about my life.
>
> Kelly
>
>
>

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