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Hurting I feel like my heart has fallen out of my body. I didn’t know it would take so long for my mom’s passing to hit me. I thought since I wasn’t a basket case at the time and had even seen it coming since last September, that I had gotten through things okay. Part of …
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Oops Usually I start feeling better after Mother’s Day. My low point has always been Valentine’s Day to Mother’s Day. But this is my first Mother’s Day without my mom. I thought I was doing good yesterday. But not today. I just want to go to a country-style restaurant and get fried chicken, turnip greens, black-eyed …
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Pain, Physical and Emotional For the last few weeks, I’ve been concentrating on my knee rather than my brain. If everything went welI, I will have a total knee replacement (last Monday) and have been trying to heal and regain motion ever since. I’ve known this operation was coming for quite some time. I’ve been using a cane, but […]
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Rejiggering Meds Again I think today was one of the worst days I’ve had in a while. I started off good at work but when it came time to switch tasks, I lost it. I was too anxious to open the document and work on what was needed. Then I got three emails for new tasks needing to …
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Disability Denied I applied for disability once when I had been suffering from extreme depression, a symptom of my bipolar 2 disorder, for approximately three years. I couldn’t work. Without my income, my husband and I were running out of money and looking for financial assistance. Here’s what I learned about SSDI from that experience and subsequent […]
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