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Completed application
Jul. 9th, 2012 01:17 amCompleted online disability application and medical report and electronically signed medical records release. Should take SSA a minimum of 4 months to even get all the medical records I've authorized them to get, so the very soonest I will hear from them will be sometime after that. So there's absolutely no point whatsoever in fretting till then. Right?
Because the reality of the situation is, even if right this minute I were to have the thoracotomy to have the third lead placed by external means, and even if that surgery worked perfectly and the third lead improved the dissynchrony and raised my EF, so that I was something closer to able to work after I recovered, who the hell would hire me at my age, not having worked at all in 7 years, with a known medical condition that would be a huge drain on their company health insurance? When there's 26-year-old new-minted PhDs and CPAs out there who would work cheap and aren't even used to jobs with benefits and are in good health and have more recent training and???
Footnotes: the "mini-thoracotomy" involves cracking open a couple ribs, but not the sternum, so it's technically considered "minimally invasive surgery" ha ha. 5 days in the hospital and 4 weeks recovery at home with nursing care or in a rehab center, a dismally depressing thought. My insurance would probably not cover all of it. There's about a 50% chance it would work, and even then, no telling how /well/ it would work. You can see why I haven't rushed to do this.
Because the reality of the situation is, even if right this minute I were to have the thoracotomy to have the third lead placed by external means, and even if that surgery worked perfectly and the third lead improved the dissynchrony and raised my EF, so that I was something closer to able to work after I recovered, who the hell would hire me at my age, not having worked at all in 7 years, with a known medical condition that would be a huge drain on their company health insurance? When there's 26-year-old new-minted PhDs and CPAs out there who would work cheap and aren't even used to jobs with benefits and are in good health and have more recent training and???
Footnotes: the "mini-thoracotomy" involves cracking open a couple ribs, but not the sternum, so it's technically considered "minimally invasive surgery" ha ha. 5 days in the hospital and 4 weeks recovery at home with nursing care or in a rehab center, a dismally depressing thought. My insurance would probably not cover all of it. There's about a 50% chance it would work, and even then, no telling how /well/ it would work. You can see why I haven't rushed to do this.
