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Redbird ([personal profile] redbird) wrote2024-01-23 04:42 pm

Social Security disability application, and neurologist

Yesterday's mail contained two envelopes from the Social Security disability determination office for Massachusetts. One of them asks about any medical care I've received since the last paperwork I filed, and the other looks like a form I sent them at an earlier stage of this. That would make sense given that I asked them to reconsider turning me down. [personal profile] cattitude pointed out that the first thing I should do is call the lawyer who is representing me about this, so I put everything back in the envelope and wrote myself a reminder to call him today.

I called the lawyer this afternoon, and after saying he was glad I had called him right away, he asked me a bunch of questions. It took me a little while to realize that he was filling out the form as we talked, but at the end of the call he said he would fax the form over to them right away.

The lawyer also said that I can wait to update the medical information; I'd thought they might at least want to know about the pulmonologist. I did describe the balance PT, but I don't know if he added it to the "function report"; I didn't give him the therapist's name. There's no point giving them the name of my new neurologist yet, since so far I'm just a name in his appointment book.

I made that appointment with the neurologist at about 10:00 this morning, when the MS clinic at Beth Israel Lahey called me. I will be seeing him on March 21st, and somewhere between now and then I will look up the address ("Shapiro clinic, 8th floor") and the doctor's first name. Jacobson is a moderately common name, but I assume that if there were two doctors Jacobson there the scheduler would have given me his full name.
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[personal profile] adrian_turtle 2024-01-23 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I suspect the schedule DID give you his full name, and it's Jacob Sloane.
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[personal profile] princessofgeeks 2024-01-24 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
Fingers crossed that with the lawyers help you will get approved!
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[personal profile] minoanmiss 2024-01-24 12:31 am (UTC)(link)

whee, adventures in living.

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[personal profile] snippy 2024-01-24 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
That sounds normal as far as the disability appeal. Glad you have a good attorney who immediately fills out the form and sends it back, that's excellent responsiveness in my experience.