Guest guest Posted September 16, 2009 Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 Sorry to hear you have one of those Pulmonolgists with an attitude. I did as well for the last 10 years I lived in Seattle prior to retirement. As to filing with Social Security, I had no problems getting on disabililty. I had a lung biopsy done at UW Seattle along with PFTs etc. in '07 and I went through a 3 day transplant evaluation (to include PFTs etc) at UW Madison, Wisconsin in '08. All these records went to Social Security and they determined that sometime between the biopsy and transplant evaluation, my stats dropped low enough to qualify me for disability so they started my checks right away. In addition, they decided to reimburse me for several of the past months where I didn't receive a check. They had some type of formula they used to approximate just when it was I likely qualified over the period of 13 months between my testing. I have heard different stories from different folks but for me it was not a pain at all (except for filling out the forms on-line). I'd say go for it - it is well worth it! Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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