RE: Why Do Friends Not Believe Us - and now leaving a job and SSD

April 9, 2008

Angie - interesting that you should mention walking away from a job. If you

want to email a response privately to me, I understand unless you don't mind

answering here, unless you prefer not to divulge. What did you do for

income after the job walk away?

The reason I'm asking is I work a 25 hour shift from home doing

transcription, plus they put on another 10 to 15 hours of extra file work on

me a week. So I'm basically working full time but without the perks of full

time benefits. It's killing me. That doesn't even count having to do any

housework/getting groceries, etc. I am seriously considering quitting and

filing for SSD but need to do some more research on how to go about it. Not

only for the fibro, but I have degenerative disk disease, an end stage

herniated disk which the neurosurgeon says I'm a perfect candidate for a

fusion but won't do it because it will exacerbate my fibro, bipolar with

depression, anxiety attacks and IBS.

I've bookmarked a number of links that everyone has posted and am

researching the whole thing. But am wondering what do to in the meantime

for cash flow. Hubby works but don't know if we can make all our bills on

his income alone. From what I understand you're not supposed to be working

prior to applying. Is that right? In any case, pretty soon I'm not going

to have a choice - like I said, working is killing me. And it sucks because

I actually have a job that I love but as it always seems to happen -

something else intervenes and I am s**t of out luck. I'm almost to the

point where I'm ready to just quit and if they send us to collection for

medical bills or whatever else, well, I guess that's what will happen. What

good are paid bills going to do us if I'm totally incapacitated from trying

to bust my butt working?

Teri (central Wisconsin)

Re: Why Do " Friends " Not Believe Us

I know exactly what you mean. My mother was telling people behind my back

that there was nothing wrong with me. That I was just lazy and didn't want

to work. I left a job I had for 15 years that paid me almost $15 an hour

with great medical and other nice benefits. It killed me to walk away from

that job because of my illnesses. We don't ask to have fibromyalgia or

chronic fatigue. We don't ask to have severe depression or lupus or anything

else. And you are right. If they don't have this debilitating chronic pain,

they just don't understand.

Angie in Arizona

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