In retrospect -- do you think it's worth trying for employment and risk
getting knocked off benefits?  I find a thin and disturbing line between
learning helplessness and accepting this illness.


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From: Barb_MSN <[log in to unmask]>; [log in to unmask]
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To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, June 07, 1999 12:16 AM
Subject: Re: social security disability


>Don....
>
>I've gone thru the SSDI experience not only once, but TWICE,
>having gone back to full time employment after being on SSDI for 3
>or 4 years.
>
>I got a job 7 day-a-week-job averaging 14 or 15 hours a day job
>the online industry, working right outta my home.   It was
>grueling and when, 2 years after I'd begun working, I parted
>company with my employer, Microsoft, I found that the good folks
>at Social Security had screwed up royally by noting in my file
>that I had been "CURED" of the Parkinson's I'd had for 22 years
>(have had PD for almost 25 years now).  Thus I no longer had my
>"disabled" status and lost SSDI and Medicare benefits which had
>taken me three full years to get the first go 'round.
>
>It took me another two years to FINALLY reestablish my SSDI status
>and in both cases required the assistance of a SSDI attorney it
>cut thru the red tape.
>
>I STRONGLY urge you wife to start the ball rolling ASAP with
>regards to qualifying for SSDI and Medicare benefits, and to not
>let that entity get her down (and believe me, they are past master
>in the art of making the SSDI applicant go 'round the bend from
>sheer frustration!
>
>Good luck, and please keep us posted on how your wife's doing.
>
>Barb Mallut
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: DonaldR.Smith <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Sunday, June 06, 1999 6:21 PM
>Subject: social security disability
>
>
>>My wife has had Parkinson's for quite awhile now and is having a
>real hard
>>time at work.
>>Anyone out there that has gone through the process to obtain
>Social Security
>>Disability?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Have a great day...............................................
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