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Need Precedent Opinion For Chronic Sinuitis And/or Rhinitis

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If I am to explain to a ENT specialist what I need in a IME/IMO to help win my claim, I was hoping their is some Precedent Opinion that would help me or rather my specialist to know what they must provide in order for their opinion to be of sufficient value to rebut that of a NP C&P Examiners findings and what the VARO rater perceives as countering evidence?

I will continue to read what I can, but any help would be appreciated very much since my mind seems to work in sperts before it becomes fatigued to the point I must stop and start fresh another day.

Rockhound Rider :lol:

Are you a paranoid schizophrenic

if the ones you think are out to

get you, really are?

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I couldn't take it any longer, dam the pain and to the lung congestion I knew I would have to deal with. I caught my neighbor just as he and his wife were headed into town to work. I asked him if he would help me get my lawnmower into town to a repair shop. I'll have to deal with how the cost of the repair is going to impact me this winter, but the weeds are reaching near waiste deep and it wouldn't take more than a random spark to set it ablaze along with my mobile home, even though I have a fire hydrant right on the edge of my property for the fire dept. to hook too. I doubt they would be able to same any part of my home should a fire start.

My neighbor said I could barrow his while mine was getting repaired. It took me all day to do just about one 1/3rd of my 1/3rd acre lot and boy can I feel the pain I knew would come as a result. I'm maxed out on my muscle relaxants and pain meds and I used the last of my bottled oxygen, but mentally I feel a bit better, worrying less about the fire danger, since that portion of my property that borders the roads has a lot less fuel to feed a fire.

When I came in having finished the last segment of weeds for the day, I fixed my kitten some food before I forgot, since I knew once my meds kicked in, I would, hopefully be fast asleep. Sleeping through most of my pain. But instead of my kitten purring at my feet, knowing what I was fixing, my kitten was no where to be found. Being quite unusual for her to mix a meal, being like a psychic, knowing when I am fixing her something to eat. I went from one end of the house to the other, but no kitten, I was beginning to think she had found her way outside and I wasn't in any shape to go looking for her outside.

Ow and behold, I was about to do just that, when I heard a little meow, It took me a bit of time to zero in on the sound, but finally I found her in the last place I thought she would be. She was inside her carrier case, curled up asleep, the meowing was, I guess her having some sort of dream. I couldn't believe she would go inside her carrier like that on her own, she seems to hate being put in it when we travel outside and away from the house. LoL :P

I guess it's time to find some carpet and take some of the scrap wood I have and make her one of those cat trees, with cubby holes and purches up high, so she has the best of the two things she likes the most. Hiding out of sight when she takes her naps and a place she can get up high to survey her kingdom. LoL I hope I can find a simpathetic carpet store that will either donate some scrap carpet or some they will sale to me cheap.

Well tammy is asleep once again, but she is next to me while I am typing on the keyboard and I think I will take the hint and lay down and try to get some sleep. It's been pretty difficult to do the last few days, so I am hoping the added muscel relaxents, pain, and psych meds will be enough to put me into La La land. Even at midnight it is nearly 90 degrees inside, but the temperature is dropping, even as I type. I just hope I don't sleep in, Wednesday is trash pickup day and I have been neglecting to put out my cans and they are beginning to over flow, which is par for me, since living by myself, I don't generate enough trash to put my cans out each week.

Good night to all and thanks for the words on my kitten.

Rockhound Rider ;)

Are you a paranoid schizophrenic

if the ones you think are out to

get you, really are?

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