Re: ever wonder what I look like... here is a description/Kate

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Hey there Kate. Looks like we are on the same wavelength tonight.

On the medical record thing; I agree with you. By going on disability it

somehow opened up my entire medical file to the whole company and everyone else.

HIPAA my arse!! I'm going through the scrutiny as well. The only thing Unum

acknowledged about my health was acute anxiety and depression caused by the

workplace stress. They totally disregarded all my other stuff and still refused

to pay me. I think they are trying to point to the company and it being

worker's comp so they don't have to pay disability. It's all designed to screw

you over when you get sick.

Angie Harley Mama Double-D

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Re: ever wonder what I look like... here is a description

Oh Marti,

And.....everyone. ...I just don't get it. {I understand what YOU are saying..I

just don't get other people that have left us} We've all lost sooo much and

sooo many friends and family. This disease just sucks the life out of you.

Takes everything in it's path. SIGHHHH. Kinda like a major flood. It just

sweeps everything in your life away and leaves you standing with nothing left

including your dignity. A shadow of the person you once were. Everything is

gone.

You are left damaged and alone.

I've lost everything too. Family was never really there for me but now it's

taken the rest of 'em. But friends, good friends that I thought would be there

beside me/us forever..... gone. Disappeared. Or, the couple that remain are

sooo quick to judge and talk behind your back. We've even lost the " family "

that used to include us in everything including holiday dinners (it was shared,

we did our part too. They never did ALL the work by any means). Now they've

asked us not to join them anymore b/c they have new people to come instead.

How many times have we heard them say, in a public setting, " They used to be

like family but they really weren't our family. Our family is family...they

were just *like it*. " I call it the " Pretty Woman Syndrome " where he says to

her " When did I ever treat you like a prostitute? " and says " you

just did. " That's EXACTLY how they make us feel. My hubby agrees. Sad.

My mother stole my daughter and I was too sick to fight her the last time.

the disease took me son. I have nothing left. Hubby's family are all dead, he

lost them as a teen. We have nothing left.

Oh Marti, I never intended to make this about me. I am sorry. Just feeling

sorry for myself lately is all. I was only trying to say I understood how YOU

felt and agree with you. I better sign off before I stick my foot further

down my throat. LOL.

I do appreciate you!

~Jennie

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