Lily.....you were wrong!

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I went and had my nerve tests done yesterday at the Pain

Mangement Clinic. I had an EMG done and Nerve Reduction

Velosity tests along with the EMG's and Lily......I have a bone to

pick with you!!!

The tests were not as painless as my dear friend and nurse Lily

said they'd be, unfortunately. I was okay with the shock portions,

where they shock you up and down your arm in several different

places, also on the back and inside of the palm, wrist and elbow

I only jumped off the table a couple times for that, but once the

doctor got out this five inch long needle and started using that to

test in the same areas......yikes, I'm sure my intakes of breath to

keep from screaming could be heard as far as the reception

room! IT DID TOO, HURT, Lily!!!

I did survive, though, to hear the news that there's some specific

areas of damage to the nerves, giving me a new diagnosis of

carpel tunnel syndrome in my left hand and a long list of things

now that I'm not supposed to do with it. He also wants me to

wear a wrist splint to bed every night. I didn't let him test the right

hand, which I'm sure is just as bad off, since that's my working

hand. I was just too sore from testing the left to continue any

further. Too disappointed, at that point, also, to stay there any

longer.

Though I forgot to do so today, I guess it would be wise to call my

disability attorney and have him add this information to my

disability claim, don't you think? My SSDI hearing before the

judge is supposed to be happening sometime in the near future.

I haven't heard anything more about it, but the papers did say that

it would be scheduled sometime within six months of my last

denial, which was at the end of February. That timing has me

expecting to hear something soon. Just as long as they don't

schedule it the day of the wedding......lol!

My husband and I were talking about the whole disability issue

again. I'd been intentionally not thinking about it and trying to

keep my mind occuped with other things until we heard about a

hearing date. But yesterday there was a multi-paged form in my

chart at the doctor's office that he had been asked to fill out. It

had my name at the top of it and it had all these questions about

pain on the first page that he was supposed to fill out. Neither

his nurse nor I knew where the form had origniated from, at first

she thought it was for me to fill out, that's how I got to see what

the first page had on it. The doctor was so busy that I didn't get a

chance to ask him where the form had come from. So we

started talking about the disability hearing again on the drive

home. He said that he just didn't understand how someone of

my age who had all of the medical problems and pain issues

that I do, could continue to be denied SS disability. He see's me

on a daily basis, so he know what's really going on, poor guy!

Now with this latest news, I'd have to say that if I don't make it

this time I will more than perplexed.......I'll probably be suicidal.

If it will make a difference, I'll schedule another nerve test for the

other arm and hand, but really don't want to do that test again. I

didn't handle it as painlessly as I planned, and my arm was

hurting all afternoon. I figure just knowing about the one hand is

enough. As far as strengthening my disability claims, do you

think having the diagnosis in BOTH hands would be better?

With love, hope and prayers,

Heidi

Heidi H. Griffeth

South Carolina

SC & SE Regional Rep.

PAI

Note: All comments and advice are based on personal

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