When thinking about disability

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Oh, I’m sure they take all the money back. I have a 95 year old mother and a brother on disability that goes through all this. My brother only gets by because he has a union retirement after 35 years, but Obama took 2/3 of it away. He retired at 52 and when they took 2/3 of his retirement away he applied for disability. It only took him 7 years to get SSDI to pay after he sued them.

I’m 61 and would have the wife’s insurance until she retires. After we both retire, I’m not sure what I will do because you can’t use the vendors co-pay card if you are on medicare or medicaid.

I guess I will have to work as long as I am physically able and try to put away as much money as I can for when the day comes.

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The interesting thing is, and I work for a state government, the state put on this big horse and donkey show two years ago about how they were going to allow employees to work from home. Now, you have to consider the public’s perception of government employees working form home. What happened after the big public roll our was that it was left up to each department’s commissioner to say yea or nay to it. Mine said nope.

If it had been that simple they could have just told me I could work from home when I felt bad, my boss at that time even told me this would help me a lot. Nope.

After I got a new boss, they fired the the other one, she saw how much time I was missing and not getting paid for but knew I was having to work while at home. She went to personnel and made them give me ADA papers to get an exception. After jumping through hoops, I got an exception. I can, on a limited basis, work from home on days I feel terrible, and get paid. 90% of my work is on the computer and by phone. By not just letting me work from home per state policy they have now given me one foot out the door by having to grant me an exception.

This all started because they moved our offices from a location with plenty of parking next to the building to downtown. I have to be at work by 6:30 now to get one of the 5 handicap parking places so I only have to walk 150 yards. Not exactly ADA compliant. Before, if I didn’t sleep due to pain and got to work at 9:00, it was no big deal because I had a place to park. Now, if I am not at work by 7:00 I will have to walk near 300 yards to my building, or park 1 mile away and ride a shuttle that does not run but a few hours in the morning and evening, making it unusable to me. Neither of those options are going to happen. If I don’t sleep and get up late, I just don’t go to work now and work from home.

I have busted the states chops over the non-compliant ADA parking, but got now where. I could get a lawyer and they would have to let me park under the building where the big-wigs park, but I am sure it would cost me in the end.

We have a new governor and I make myself friendly every time I see our new commissioner, waiting for the day I drop a hint that the parking is non ADA compliant and I may have to take disability because of it. :wink:

I guess if my number of days I work from home goes up and they get tired of it, I’ll be forced to take disability before they try and fire me. But, if they fire me for a disability, I’ll be able to retire anyway!!

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It’s a hard transition, especially if you’ve been somewhat successful in your career. I was in your place 2 years ago. My turning point came when I realized that I was only able to drag myself to work and couldn’t do anything else. I missed my nephew’s graduation party because I couldn’t do anything but go to work and rest. I was also missing about a day a week. My state had a disability pension which took a.year to be approved. SSD took exactly 5 months to get approved and I did it myself. I heard if you’re older its easier to get approved. If your rheumatologist is on board you’ll get it. I’ve never regretted it.

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That sounds like me now. I miss about one day a week and I am too tired to do anything else but work. I sleep most of the weekend to recover.

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Thank you. Unfortunately I’m a nuclear medicine technologist. I don’t have patients to come to my home even if I find a way to buy a gamma camera :rofl::rofl::rofl:
My doctor told me we could try cosentyx. Hoping it helps… Thank you very much…

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Cosentyx worked for me so far all the best

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Thank you. I needed that… I’m hoping!!!

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