Three months ago, I posted a thread that was a much needed vent.
Several members
urged me to file for SSDI, which I was in the process of doing for the third time (the first two times I never completed the application). I filed online which said the app. should take 30 minutes to complete. It took me approximately 30 hours to get all the information listed.
A couple days after I completed the app., I received my telephone interview and about a week later I got my function report in the mail. I had a very hard time completing the function report because of the strike-outs and corrections that were necessary due to brain fog from my meds.
I listed my husband and adult daughter as others that could fill out the reports but they never received any.
This past week, I had an IME for work comp. The doctor was one that my WC attorney said they have had good luck with. He was very personable and one of the first things he said was that he had never met anyone with so many levels fused. When his assistant took my blood pressure, it was 178/96.
Right away he knew it was from pain. When he was checking my range of motion, he asked me to bend backward and before I even had a chance to do it he said, "Oh, I suppose you can't do that." He was pleasantly surprised that I could bend back about 5 degrees. My husband was in the exam room with me and although he had signed a list of rules (including that he was not to say anything), the Dr. asked his opinion and feelings on several items.
Anyway, I called SSA to give them the name and address of this doctor, as I believe his report is going to contain much more valid information about my current condition than my surgeon's file. When I spoke to the SSA rep., she asked for my SSN and after she entered it into the computer she said "Oh!" in a surprised voice. I wanted to fish for information to see if that was really what I heard. I asked if there was any missing information or anything they needed from me. She told me they had everything they needed and my file was out for medical determination. I was told if I didn't hear anything by early September to call back.
I am fairly (ok, greatly) curious, if it means anything that they have not had me see their doctor or psychiatrist. My primary physician and neurosurgeon do not know I have filed for SSDI, so they must not have had to fill out any additional paperwork. I told my therapist when I started seeing her and she didn't know, so there wasn't anything in my file or said by my PCP. I am grasping at straws, I know but I am trying to see something that may look promising.
I am also not a fool and know that more than likely I will be denied.
One other thing, I am on an "in the line of duty" disability retirement which the state's doctor had to determine I could never return to my time of injury job or any other job within that department.
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