Re: Where is this quote from? and SS disability question

[Guest guest]

http://www.ssa.gov

All you ever wanted to know about Social Security and Supplemental Security

programs

" il faut d'abord durer " Hemingway

[ ] Where is this quote from? and SS disability question

> Ring the bells that still can ring,

>> forget your perfect offering,

>> there is a crack in everything,

>> that's how the light gets in!

>

> I love it. That was my first smile today.

>

> I'm currently not doing anything but naproxin, and feeling a little worse

> every day. Reason is every time I try to restart the MTX I get another

> something with my lungs. Feel like I've been on antibiotics since Mom

> died

> in July. My rheumy says she's going to have to think hard and long

> because

> she doesn't know what to do next -- she said everything that would be an

> effective treatment can't be used. Not too encouraging.

>

> In the meantime, my husband fell off the wagon as it were and got a couple

> of dui's and is now on home confinement -- he's absolutely a sweetheart

> and

> does understand when he is himself aka sober. And of course now he's dead

> sober. I didn't have the heart to make him stay in prison for a year

> instead of doing the homeconfinement bit... the whole thing was a

> nightmare.

> I'm back seeing my counselor from days of old when I first got diagnosed

> with clinical depression and that is wonderful, I also have great

> neighbors

> who will do any emergency driving I might need.. they're friends, not

> " just "

> neighbors. Am I lucky. Of course all of this stress in the wake of Mom's

> illness and death has just hammered me emotionally. I'm going to be in a

> position of deciding within the year whether to stay married to him, with

> the condition that he never drive a car again -- I know I cannot take the

> stress of his being on the road ever again --- or he finds somewhere back

> West to go. It makes it a bit harder that I do appreciate the help of

> having someone considerate living here. Which he is, when sober. He

> feeds

> the dogs and cats and does the dishes and laundry and cleans the yard up

> after the dogs. That's a lot of work -- I used to handle it fine; I

> handled

> it while he was in prison. But I don't know how I will be as time passes

> :-(

>

> I wish they'd invent some effective treatment (don't we all) that wouldn't

> give you nightmare diseases if you're using it when you get an infection.

> sigh

>

> Now too long story, very abbreviated: in the wake of my Mom's passing I

> am

> back in touch with my " baby " cousin who was " lost to the family " when she

> moved to Texas after the divorce from 7 hells many many years ago. That

> I

> am very thankful for. But it turns out that the monster (her ex) never

> put

> her on health insurance as he was supposed to ... why does this not

> surprise

> me .... what horrifies me is that Nan must not have been getting medical

> attention for all these years because she would have known that! Anyway,

> she surfaced and then vanished for 2 months-- turns out she was in the

> hospital for 2 MONTHs and had peritonitis and almost died. Anyway.. she

> is

> applying for SS disability.. I mean, she is not allowed to drive or walk

> much for months.. ..... Of all the people I know, you guys are the best

> source for " what is a good contact/contacts, source of information " ....

> i.e. , a ... someone ... " Tell me where to go " please. Thank

> you

> so much

>

> love, Carla

> I'm going to learn the Native American flute.. I can still hold flutes!!

>

>

>

>

>