Moving Forward

Several people from both hospitals have encouraged me to have Justin apply for Disability. I looked into it last year and it said you must have been sick for one year to get benefits. Well, it has been over 10 months already, so the time is now.

I have this sinking feeling that we will spend many hours on this project (you have to jump through a hundred hoops) only to find out he does not qualify for some reason. I will have to take some time off work to visit the local social security office, and take dozens of informational papers, like who his doctors are, the dates of his treatments, future appointments, his patient ID numbers, medications and their prescribers, and even a copy of his birth certificate. It will take me hours to get all of this information together. I will try to keep a positive attitude about it, but I just have a feeling it is a lot for nothing. But, you can't know until you try, so we will try.

I called the Social Security office and they gave us an appointment for 1:00pm this Wednesday. I was actually surprised that we got in that fast. And yet that is not too much time to have all this information put together.

This is the tiring part of illness.