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I don't often post to the list, but Mike's letter riled me. I can only hope your comments were meant to be humorous even if in very bad taste. Between the PD and the drugs, there is not a whole lot of life left over. If I had not got disability I sure as nuts are nuts would have been fired for incompetence. How am I going to get to work if I can't drive the 60Km (37 miles)? How am I going to work if I can't write? How am I going to work if I freeze on the spot halfway to the office? Amongst the members of this list we could add another 100 barriers. If I had been fired how would I have fed and clothed my family? The bureaucrats think of PD as a disease where people shake - what's the hardship in that. To go to them looking normal they are going to have this belief reinforced. The whole process of applying for disability is traumatic enough without having some petty clerk looking down his/her nose at you. Having got disability you now have to deal with the fact that you are no longer a useful member of society. At normal retirement age you expect to have to stop work, but at 45? There are many days that I feel I could do a days work, well perhaps an hour or two and I feel guilty not contributing to society with my labour. But there are many more when I could not do any proper work at all. If the letter was not in humour, take ME off the list - I don't wish to be associated with this type of person Regards, DaveSA >>> Laugh, be creative and touch someone's life everyday <<< ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Falcone" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 8:47 AM Subject: Re: How I got SS Disability on 2nd try > This is deplorable! > > You bunch of lazy ass fakers make me sick. > > Unsubscribe me immediately. > > Mike > > > In a message dated 10/3/2001 2:42:08 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > [log in to unmask] writes: > > << On first try I wasn't "bad off' enough and my neuro did not fill out > required > forms and I didn't go in person because symptoms weren't bad enough yet.. > > On 2nd try I had 3 page ltr from chief honcho neuro in San Diego, CA., Dr. > Dee Silver and he really snowed them with info they probably didn't > understand. The ltr was originally intended for my primary care Dr. as I > live far from San Diego. I also had 3 different neuros signatures on my > year's California State Disability forms all with PD diagnosis, easy to get, > but only lasts a yr. > > After grueling hour trip on medical bus, I staggered into Riverside SS Office > in person with ttyped statemente of Whwy RAyaialyn Bowwrownw can't work, > wiht all errorrs, I Haad been oding parttime owrworod processing ;after > reetierinng froom teaching. > > I was in tears and shaking when I was interviewed by sympathetic bureaucrat > who said I had good documentation, and didn't care about those stupid > questions like "what books do you read?". > > I guess what worked was: > 1. Going in person to office in bad condition > 2. Having good documentation, some of which they couldnd't understand > (involves findiing right neuro who had enough pride to send great info to my > primary, DR. Silver even gave me a couple of free books) > 3. Demonstrate why you can't do job you are doing, in my case the bad > typing. > 4. Good Luck > Rayilyn Brown >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn