This week has been utterly insane in the amount of flail worthy happenings ( Read more... )

Apologies for the recent radio silence. Been having a real rough go at it the past week or so. My teeth/jaws have gotten worse and the changing weather makes them flair real bad. The nerve pain I get from it is overwhelming.  My Gaba meds just manage to take the edge off. But then breakthrough pain hits and I take more Gaba to beat it back. Once ( Read more... )

Stage one of Disability determinations completed. I called SSA today and apparently I have a new worker, which explains part of the run around. She confirmed everything with me and told me she'd be submitting my case to their doctors for review tomorrow. Now waiting to hear back on the medical determination stage. This is the big one, where the ( Read more... )

Quick update. Ankle is still tender but as long as I am not on it too long I can tolerate the pain enough to walk on it for short amounts of time and for short distances. Puppy is doing good, will write more about that in a puppy update I am working on.

Getting increasingly aggravated with the SSA and this disability determination process.  They ( Read more... )

Disability Stuff
This month is flying by. Have had so much going on with finalizing my filing with the SSA.  A few aggravations along the way, but those were made up for by going in to drop off paperwork for SSDI and unexpectedly getting to apply for SSI without needing an appointment as I originally thought I would.  Everything sort of fell into ( Read more... )

I have been a little scarce recently. Taking care of medical related stuff.  I am finalizing my Disability/Medicaid application process next week.  I will be going in person with faithful Ember at my side to present my 3inch+ thick folder of medical records and documents, letters of support ( thanks again to those who wrote them ), and fully ( Read more... )

(TLDR Version) I went and met with trainers and staff at Canine Partners. I had a chance to work with some of their dogs in the special mobility harnesses they use. They think I'm a good candidate for a service dog through them. I have been added to their waiting list.  They're going to start looking for a dog partner that matches my needs. So ( Read more... )

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As of Friday I heard back from CPL about my application for a new assistance dog.

"Your application is with the trainers.  I want to let you know that Fall Team Training will start Saturday so we are in hyper drive here so the trainers might not get a chance to review the application until after team training.  - Carol"

Fingers crossed this puts ( Read more... )

Apologies for the lapse in presence on and off recently. I have been busy for a little while working on putting together all of this information for my disability application process. Digging through old paperwork to find things to use ( thank goodness I kept it ), collecting and sorting documents from providers.  Just waiting on responses from two ( Read more... )