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How can a person be diagnosed with Neuropathy if not Diabetic?
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@dinosoke I had to quit my job in 2015 due to the pain in my hips, knees, and feet from osteoarthritis and neuropathy. You can't begin receiving disability payments until you've been "retired" from your job for 5 months first. Everything that we'd been told was that almost everyone who applies for permanent disability is turned down the first time, and that you'll need to appeal in order to qualify.
So when I applied, I went in person to our local SS office armed with the medical records from my GP, 2 orthopedists, a neurosurgeon, and 3 neurologists as evidence that I would never be able to do my job again(I drove a truck and delivered heavy loads to customers for over 35 years). It took about 2 months before I was notified that I indeed did qualify for disability. I was put on permanent disability, which meant that I had an ADA card proving that I was disabled, and qualified for handicap parking passes for both of our vehicles. I received benefits for 10 years before SS sent me a letter a couple of months ago stating that because I'm turning 67 next month, that I no longer am qualified for disability benefits, but instead will begin receiving my regular SS benefits due to my age.
Why you have to be unemployed for 5 months before receiving any benefits is beyond me, I think it's a stupid rule, but it is what it is. Gather your medical records from all of your doctors, and have them ready when you finally decide that you're no longer able to continue working. We had to sell our home and move in with our son and his family for 2 years when I walked away from my job. We lived on my wife's income alone for over a year before I started receiving any benefits.
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@mrmacabre First and foremost. I am very sorry to hear about all of what you had to go through in order just to survive here in the United States. If that is going to be my case then I won't be able to make it. Sadly to say that I have no family to rely on nor any friends I could count on and I would be in worse shape than I was previously before any of this had started. I have been working mostly under the table mind you in bar's and night clubs only while doing this I had been living on the streets living day by day because there wasn't a way for me to save up for a room nor an apartment because once I received my paycheck I had been either staying on the street walking round each night after work or finding an empty space somewhere just to sleep and then payday would come and how little I would receive went to getting a hotel room for as many days I could and washing clothes. I would always put on a smile and I never once would ask for a handout nor beg for anything. You would never know I was homeless until you asked me where I lived and I would say "Right here" and point to the street. No on could ever believe that a person who is liked so much and a person works as hard as I do in making sure that everyone is safe and having a good time and a person who goes out of his way listening to people and helping them when and where I could lived on the streets but unfortunately it was true. Today though with the help of a friend who I had met at a motel introduced me to a family member of theirs and said that they are looking for someone to rent a room out of their house because of their Mom passing away and gave me a break until I was finally able to catch up and am making my rent for 2 years now and proud to say that I have been off those streets going on 3 years this April and if this is going to be the case of not having any income, well let me just say there's no way I am going back to where I have just left. I honestly don't think I can make it through any of that again. Sadly to say that but it's the truth.
Right now I am trying to hide the pain so they don't see that it's bothering me so much that just standing up once sitting down is a mind and physical challenge for me and when the owner of the place is standing in front of me and all of a sudden one of those electric volts zaps me it's kinda hard not to show the pain you are in because my throbbing vein on the side of my face and the redness on my face kinda gives it away and then you know that the owner of the bar and the owner of the company I also work for are showing a lot of concern about my health due to liability issues and how much longer will I be able to handle the job and if they only knew just how much pain I am actually in I would be out of a job again. Life truly does suck when you are alone in this world.