BMT and Social Security Benefits.

[Guest guest]

My wife and I heard that once you have a BMT, you almost automatically

qualify for disabled status Social Security benefits. We went to the Social

Security office and filed, just to see what would happen. Sure enough, I

qualified for myself and both my children. We got three checks for me and

my kids with retro benefits back to my diagnosis in 2000 (a substantial sum)

along with three monthly checks going forward. Just an FYI for the

transplant recipients out there.

Personal note: Doing OK...June tests identical to May tests: 80% donor

cells and 1.0 BCR-ABL by blood pcr. I was discouraged by this, but the oncs

say that not getting worse is a very good thing at this stage, so I am going

with that. Next test July 21st, blood PCR only.

Dane