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Nov 16 12 7:30 AM
I love the invisible rope surrounding us. I can’t decide if I’m cooking for Thanksgiving. I don’t want to, but I always think this could be the last Thanksgiving for my Mother and Aunt. My son won’t be home… so I probably will just cook a turkey breast and a few fixings.
Well DH got approved for his Social Security. They approved it based on his bad back. The attorney said we want to get this rated on a physical condition if possible. We don’t want to mention the anxiety, depression or PTSD… it’s better if we can stay away from any mental illness. WTF??? I just don’t get it… don’t get me wrong, I’m so grateful that he got rated as disabled, but why does the entire world skip around PTSD? People this thing is real!! I saw the attorney at my work today and I thanked him for helping us. He said he should have never had to have a hearing. He said it was the most well documented case he had ever seen, and it was totally ridiculous that he even had to go before a judge. The judge was a Navy man… only asked DH a few questions about his back. Then said this is off the record and asked him a couple questions about PTSD (off the record). I'm really hoping they do this to avoid putting the veteran through having to relive the war at a hearing. If that's the case then I'm thankful. The attorney thanked him for his service. He said I know Vietnam was terrible. He said he was in the Vietnam age era and he could have easily been in Vietnam, but the military turned him down for a physical condition. Must have been something serious, because back in those days I think they would have taken a monkey if he could run and shoot a gun. So glad it is over and now hopefully we can move on to some healing. We've been fighting for benefits for four years.
Hope everyone has a good weekend.
Hollywood
I forgive myself for having believed for so long that... I was never good enough to have, get, be what I wanted. Ceanne DeRohan
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