Bec,

I don't know what it is about government agencies and people who need long term help. When people try to get on Social Security Disability down here, it's almost 100% turn down on the first try. Amazing. And there's a certain criteria you have to meet to even attempt to get it!

My sister had to quit working because of her illness. Even though her diagnosis was terminal she was turned down the first time. Through the pure luck of fate, her attorney's assistant was in the elevator with clerks from the SSD office and overheard them talking about her case and that she had been turned down because she was too young to have a terminal disease. HUH???? Needless to say the next time she went, they gave her the SSD.

Keep plugging away, and don't let the bean-counting bastards get you down.

Lisa