It seems the long wait may finally be nearing an end... And what I call my early retirement near its beginning.
I am to be examined by a doctor who will then report my status to the Social Security Disability Administration. I'm sure to be diagnosed with cognitive memory disorder, which fibromyalgians lovingly call fibro fog, because I've been diagnosed with it twice. Said disorder is the reason someone I know was awarded disability, so I feel pretty good about my newfound idiocy being just cause for "awarding" me benefits.
(This is a snip of a conversation I had with the first psychologist who diagnosed me with cognitive memory disorder:
"So basically I'm a moron now."
"That depends on what your IQ was before you got fibro."
At the time -- and this one -- I'm still intelligent enough to find the above hilarious.)
Also, there's the fact that no one will hire someone who has to eat OxyCodone and Klonopin like candy and that, for months at a time -- times like now -- I have to sleep for sixteen hours of every day.
I would be a total liability to anyone who would hire me... Whacked on Oxy and Klonopin (most people think of these two as incredibly debilitating in and of themselves... However, they allow me to function. Still, no one would put me at the helm of a steamroller... I'd be a lawsuit waiting to happen), unable to remember what happened or what I was told to do any given five minutes ago...
I'm unemployable.
I feel reasonably certain that will be the finding of the doctor I see Wednesday.
...It's an odd thing, to hope that this will be his conclusion.
But there is no other to draw.
03 May, 2008
WEDNESDAY I GET EXAMINED BY A SOCIAL SECURITY DOCTOR!
Posted by Andy Rooney at 4:57 PM
Labels: anxiety, benzodiazepines, chronic fatigue, fibro, fibro fog, fibromyalgia, fibromyalgian, klonopin, opiates, opioids, oxycodone, oxycontin, social security
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