Hearing, Now Seeing
We have a hearing!
Almost exactly one year since I hired an attorney to fight the Social Security Administration's decision that Amy suffers from no disabilities, we have a hearing date for our appeal - September 7th.
I had to go back through my blog - yes, it's become a virtual replacement for lost brain cells - to remember when I actually first met with the attorney to discuss Amy's case. It was almost exactly a year ago and we've been through a heck of a time since.
I don't go back and read my old posts much, but I did today. I have to say it was pretty painful.
Amy was on her computer writing a whimsical email to some Pastor somewhere, and I was doing a pretty poor job of holding back my tears reading...remembering.
I don't know how all this disability stuff will work out...I think we've learned by now not to get our hopes set too high. Truthfully I can't envision how anyone can look at Amy's medical records and say she has not been disabled.
But it's the government.
I'm more thankful than anything else. Honestly, going back through those memories has made me appreciate today a lot more.
My wife is sitting in the same room with me, she's happy and she's relatively healthy...her pain is controlled...she has more good days than bad days.
And boy...now I realize...so do I.
Praise God!
posted by Michael
©The Main Point by Michael Main
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5 Comments:
"More good days than bad days", pain under control, and time for whimsy -- all good, indeed!
Hi, found your blog through RLP. I'm curious about your wife's disability. I was injured in an accident last year and am not able to do what I did before. My leg is deformed and I am deal with pain everyday. I have been wanting to connect with others that struggle with disabilities from accidents, etc.
I am glad the good is outweighing the bad.
And I am Gladder Still that Amy sits beside you.
Still. :)
Oh, and as a person who works with kids with disabilities and the whole thing with the courts saying who's disabled and who's not:
I pray that God's will be done in all this, and that you receive the news you desire. :)
Thank you for your prayers...truly God will take care of us and we are not worried...at this point I truly pray only that we not "stress" over this hearing and continually remind ourselves to put it all in His hands...
To "Journey" - Amy's disability is sort of an exhausting story, one not easily explained, but in essense she had a surgical procedure 4 years ago...a year later she began suffering complications, and pain. She has had repeated hospitalizations, for a time was unable to eat because of the resulting pain, and has endured more than I thought possible at time. She still lives with pain every day, although we are blessed to have found a pain specialist who understands and has been able to help her, along with several other very good doctors.
Pain can take on a life onto itself...I have watched this in Amy, and it is indeed difficult to explain even to friends, much less lawyers and the government.
I will pray that your pain be eased, and also that you might take some comfort in knowing that there are others...others who understand how hard it is for you.
God Bless,
Michael
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