ruby

I am sorry to hear you lost on the first try. Most people do unless they are over 55 or they are highly educated. You'll get it in the end. While the money will help you now, at least you'll get back pay when you win. Ruby

Free, I am sorry for your loss. I am sorry you feel you have to defend your actions, you don't. Some people don't understand what it cost now a days for a funeral of any type. Cremation is expensive also. Being put through my Mom's, Dad's and my brothers funeral with minimal help as no one wanted to do it. You do the best you can under the circumstances. If you honored your husbands request and you did what you felt was right, then you did the right thing. Funerals are for the living and not for those that past on. You do what makes you say in the future I don't regret what I did. Sure anything can be done differently in hindsight. It's the what ifs, or I should have, or I wish I had or I wish I didn't, that's what bothers people. So as long as your ok with what you did no matter what it cost then you did the right thing. Because I believe funerals are for the living to grieve, I am not preparing my funeral, my daughter will do what makes her feel comfortable and she can live her life knowing its OK. She has to live with those decisions, what she wants is how it will be, therefore, no regrets. Whatever you did was the right thing for you to do, at that time. God Bless Ruby

I don't know the legal in's and out's, I would think you could do a NOD. I would get the IMO fine tuned and submit it, don't be late on the time frame. You need to get the doc to state specifically that each and every symptom you have is due to inflammatory reactive arthritis. This type of arthirits over time will cause bone spurs throughout your body. I think thier called enthospaties (sp) which are tiny spurs. I have them on my ribs its called costochondirits (sp) --really bad speller tonight. At times I can't take a breath without severe pain. There are articles out that say uneven gaits cause bulging disc, you need to get that in an imo from an neurosurgeon or ortho doc I would personally wait until I got the rest of this granted. You have to much to fight right now. There are articles that say osteo is common with people who have reactive arthritis. People who are double jointed are more incline to develop arthritis in those joints. You have to understand the difference in reactive and inflammatory. reactive is a general term used to describe some forms of arthritis. They are inflammatory in nature but you may never have more than a one time acute attack which may or may not have caused damage. You can also have intermittent attacks. there are no definite test for each type, they are usually dx by your symptoms. If your going to fight this you need to show how your symptoms are the hallmark of inflammatory reactive arthritis. Get you IMO doc to state each and every symptom is related to the inflammartory arthritis. I have what use to be called reiter's arthritis, if your not familiar with that then start googling it and you will see if you have reiters that is now known to be reactive arthritis which is 100% inflammatory. One of the major ss of reiters is uveitis/iritis, cystitis, vaginitis and bilateral SI involvement. My arthritis is severe. basically the inflammatory arthritis are reacting to a gene you carry and when exposed to the right agent you develop a form of arthritis. Most but not all inflammatory arthritis pt are positive for HLB-27 gene, this is what more than likely caused the reaction to the infection. You also have an abnormal or high normal sedimentation rate which indicates you have an active infective process. If your doc won't do it voluntairly then back door him with your symptoms, so he has to write it in his notes. What I mean by this you need to tell him what your symptoms are each time you go in, but be specific and limit your problems, when you tell them a bunch of stuff they write the easiest and quickest. Have you had a bone scan, if not ask for one. I have normal bone mass so they say. I have minimal to no osteo. my arthritis is all inflammatory reactive. When you are bedridden due to the flare up make them document those facts, I had to go to bed for a week due to the sciatia pain in my right leg the pain was 8/10 and nothing worked that I take to eliminate the pain. If they tell you to rest when this occurs tell them they need to write it in thier notes. If you SI hurts get a cane to help you walk as your gait is unsteady due to the pain. Ask for physical therapy to help you with your mobility. Most important if they ask you to bend over stop when the pain starts. I can bend all the way over, I am very flexible but I am in pain when I do it. I am telling you this as the PT people will use a gonimeter to measure your ability to bend. Stop when the pain starts thats what they want to know when you start to have pain. I can lift my leg straight up but it hurts about l ft off the ground. I can cross my legs but they go numb and I have shooting pain down my leg to my ankle. I have a high tolerance for pain and a low to non existent ability to take drugs to help me. Its a bear for me when my pain is severe. PM me with you causative agent and I will guide you where to look for help in proving its inflammatory arthritis. Are you in Florida, I didn't look, I would also suggest that your IMO doc specializes in reative arthritis.

While I really don't have a clue on what you should do. I would probably file another claim for those conditions to be secondary to your reactive arthritis. While you would lose the time it might be worth it in the end if a DRO will take a long time I have reactive arthritis and I just now filed a claim for it. I am waiting for the comp exam. which I normally get 9 months later. I filed for a change in my dx from scar (infected cyst) and the reactive arthritis secondary to the infected cyst. That's it nothing more. In your claim did you claim those specifically to be secondary to the reactive arthritis. Inflammatory arthritis means that you have frequent to constant pain, it shows on xray's as darken area. You can have reactive arthritis and not have inflammatory episodes. Inflammation will cause you pain, redness and swelling. If your comp exam was on a good day and you didn't limp, that's not good. They can either rate you from what I have read as individual joints or rate you on incapaciting episodes but not both. Problem with this is you have to have a doc say bedrest, like you can walk to the clinic to tell you not to walk. I am going to have my doc write in my records that he is prescribing me bedrest during each episode. Once I am rated for the reactive I am going back to ask for ie bil heel spurs, bil achilles tendon, bil knee spurs, bil shoulder spurs, neck spurs, bil elbow spurs, costochronditis (spurs on my ribs), bil wrist spurs, bil carpal tunnel, bil hands, bilater SI's. All of this is well documentated in my VA records. Once I get that I am then going to file for the 5 bulging disc resulting from my uneven gait that I have had for 30 years.--there is research that shows uneven gaits can cause bulging disc do to the uneven pressure on your spinal column. I am doing it this way for the simply reason, I am afraid if I went after it all it would get ignored like yours and then I have to file an appeal. Consider if you didn't apply for everything and each area was not addressed in the denial or approval, refile it as a new claim. Also, make sure you rheumatolist says you can't do any repetitive motions with any part of body. Let me say this reactive arthritis can occur as an acute episode and never occur again. While you may have reactive arthritis it may not be inflammatory. You would fight it on that, inflammatory is swollen and pain joints as indicated by comp exam, imo, your xrays. Get imo on your xrays results, thier only as good as the person who reads them. Trust some rads havent a clue but thats what they do. Now can I ask you if you got your decision easily or did you jumped through hoops.

Who knows with SS, however your age and the fact you have others that consider you disabled you have a better chance. Go to the sites I used and see how to write your claim. Type it out, don't do it on line. Call get an appt to fill out an app in person, take everything with you.

Sorry, I know this isn't really funny but I am lmao. Man you really have a dits for a rater.

I believe its written somewhere they have 30 days to submit thier findings to the RO. I have found they are submitted within 2 weeks. You can go to the FOI office in your clinic/hospital and get a copy of the report if they have sent it to the RO. While I may be lucky in my 2 claims in the past I knew the rating within 30 days of the RO gettting the Comp Exam results.

www.ssdanswers.com www.ultimatedisabilityguide.com You can look at a FRC that is filled out to see as an example of how you can do one. If your computer literate you can make a disc and ask you doc to put it on thier letterhead. If your using the VA doctors they won't do it, but some will sign it for you. Mine did without hesitation. I hope these sites help others. On the ssdanswers.com (there might not be an s on answers) you can ask for free emails of info, I ask its worth doing it. Its free and he never harassed me to use him, its by a lawyer from Georgia. Good Luck to All.

Cowgirl I sent you pm but not sure it went through was having a problem with my computer. You want to tell the what you can't do and why you can't do it. What drugs you take and the side effects. You would do a before this is what I did, basically hour by hour accounting from getting up to going to bed. Then you would do an after you became disabled the same thing hour by hour. How you life has changed since you became disabled. DO NOT SAY WHAT YOU CAN DO! Do not say I can pull weeds in my yard or I can knit or work the computer if you can do those you are not disabled. If you can only do them for less than 4 hours and then you must rest 30 mins + thats different thing but you must be forced to rest. If you can do an RFC and have your doctor sign it, that will help you win it both on the local level and at the appeal level if denied. If a Judge doesn't have something from your doctor say she can only sit for periods less than 4 hours, stand for 4 hours or less, no repetitive motions, can't pick up more than 5 lbs, no lifting, pushing or pulling. No stooping, bending or stretching. Go online and get one from a disability site try disability doc--I think. Fill it out as you think your doctor would and ask them to sign it. Good Luck

Free Ask you congressionman to find out why you were denied as untimely when you have proof it was timely. Be very exact in your dates and time. Provide a copy of the date stamped as evidence 1-2-3 etc. If you don't have evidence state why they refused to take app or appeal--therefore it was not stamped. Make sure you provide them the law that says if a person dies during adoption process it is consider a legal adoption- whatever it says and print a copy of the statute as evidence. While this will take time, it might get you somewhere in the end. If you know that you are 100 percent accurate call the papers and see if they will take it as a human interest story. How your son was denied his legal rights due to his adoptive fathers untimely death. Your right about the lawyers and they may not take it for that reason, they will have to work for the money and they don't get that much so they usually don't take cases that require effort on thier part. I wish you luck.

Read what Allan just posted under Chapter 5. It might help explain what, why and how they view buddy letters. I know all my buddy letters came from nurses, but I didn't have them put thier initals by thier names or even mention they were nurses. I will from now on.

Make it as long as you like. I did one that was 50 pages, knowing they had to repond to everything in it. I would suggest for comfort and easy of the reader to summarize yur complaint on the first page and then put your concerns and complaints in the body of the letter. If the first page or two grabs them they will read the rest. Ususally all the do is forward the complaint to that dept. who must respond to all you complaints. do bullets ie I am requesting your assistance in helping me with the following problem (whatever it is). The following is a summary of my complaints for easy reading to assist you. Attached is the complete details and evidence to support my concerns. 1. filed xxx 2. xxx 3. xxx 4. xxx Hope this helps

I am truly sorry for all your problems, I hope you get them worked out soon. I have always for legal reasons sent all correspondence to anyone ie creditors, VA, SSI by certified mail, return receipt. I have a signature of the person who took whatever I sent them. It's legal proof of the date and time it was sent and recieved. I would suggest you send it CMRR in the future.

Thanks for the reply's and help. Don't we all have some form of PD. I don't know a single person who in reality doesn't has some form of PD resulting from thier childhood. It's just a matter of how functional you are. I think I got caught smoking in a non smoking area and got suspended-that was 40 yrs ago who really remembers, not I am not sure if I just got in trouble verbally or suspended. I skipped school a couple of times, hasn't everyone at some point skipped. Whatever PD I might have had prior to the military, when I went in and for the 3 yrs I was in there was no mention of PD. I managed to function and fight those who perscuted me for telling the truth and reporting the MST. That I can prove with my with both my service records and medical records. I understand what your saying and taking your advice.

Way to go! I am so happy for you, you fought a long hard battle and you deserve it. Ruby

Thanks for answering, It looks like something, that someone would be asking me and they fill out the second part as to if criterion met--This is not something I am looking forward to doing. I was given 4 types of questionaires to fill out 1. Personanility assessment inventory 2. Item Booklet-has 100 question rate them from 0-3 3. Quality of Life questionaire. 4. PTSD questionaire

Is it normal to get this paperwork to fill out at home-It says Clinician administered PTSD Scale For DSM 4. If so how do you answer both sides at the bottom of the 2nd box it has criterion A met?

It depends on what you taking and yes there can be serious side effects. I hope someone told you the risk and benefits before agreeing to do IV steriods

I believe it was due to being lightheaded and fuzzy in the head. I had severe nauseau from it to the point I had to stop taking it. I am going to try it again down the road. If you don't have any side effects take it for as long as you need it. Its not recommended beyond 6 months.

Before you apply search the net for sites that show you how to do it, to get it aproved. try disabilitydoc.--social security disability blog---how to win your social security disability.

Thank you to everyone for your support during my crazy moments RUBY

I think I tried that but on the wrong person. I went to SSA today and its approved but in QA, I won't know anything official for another month. The local office was nice, I said that I know it was decided a month ago and when I called the 800 number they told me to go to the local office and they would tell me the answer. When she said let me see if I can tell you or a counselor, my heart went to the ground. She comae back and say there was no decision as it was in QA. I ask can you tell me the inital decision and she said it was allowed. YIPPEE!!!!!!!!!!

Went to SSA office this morning, they told me the claim was in QA, which I knew I ask if she could tell me the intial decision and that I understood it could be denied by QA-- ITS APPROVED!!!!!!!!!! If QA DENIES IT JUST SHOOT ME. I figure I won't get the offical notice for a month, they have 60 days to review it. Thanks for all the Support.

When you follow up with info ie RFC you want to say this is what I use to do this is what I can do now. I did a matrix: Before-This described my day from the time I got up to the time I went to bed. It was many pages long, if you think about what you did every day, how many times did you push pull lift, squat et After-what my days are now- hour by hour I think if you go to the dept of -hum can't remember- goggle job description for what you use to do in all your jobs in the past 15 years. What it requires you do to, you tell them what you can't do. Many people tell them what they can do, you don't want to do that, you tell them what you can't and why you can't do it, what your symptoms are and how long you have to rest between doing something.

Cherie I am in Tampa, on all of my CE's I had the award letter within a month of the CE. It took 6-9 months to get the CE. I really can't help you on how the VA will look at it, I wish I could.