I went to see the lawyer who deals with Social Security disability cases today, to find out if he could/would help with my appeal. He only gets paid on a contingency basis (25% of the client's back payments), so he only takes a case if he believes he will win. He took my case.
Though my relatively young age and relatively advanced education are going to make the case tough to win, that's really the easy part.
The thing is, he says it's obvious to him, as my doctor has also said is obvious to him, that I can't work. Me, I went through the training school to try to get enough skills to work, then I kept going to the various people who help disabled people find jobs; and even though I couldn't get a job, I've been thinking and I've been telling everybody else it's because of temporary difficulties, nothing that can't be overcome if I get the right prescriptions filled and get enough sleep and eat the right foods and believe hard enough and pray often enough and am a really good girl and don't give up.
The thing I am not yet ready to admit is defeat.
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