I taught high school for 24 years before my first cervical fusion. I never recovered. Besides being on drugs which obviously make you loopy, I cannot raise my right arm past my waist and I am in pain 24/7. After going through all therapies, injections, etc, I was forced into disability retirement. Due to all the pain I started seeing a psychologist. I was lying around the house in bed 24/7 crying all the time. Obviously the psychologist recommended to get out as much as possible so my husband and I started attending sporting events and concerts. I enjoy going on Facebook and I would post when I was at these events. My disability company sent copies of every post to my surgeon asking if I am really disabled then how can I go to these events. He basically laughed and replied that she is sitting in the stands, drugged up, watching basketball, not playing point guard. For some reason this still really bothers me and I wanted to know if anyone else has any similar encounters with their disability companies. BTW, since their stalking, I had a second cervical fusion and I am scheduled for a lumbar fusion next month. Will this disability company ever leave me alone or will they continue to bring me down into a deeper depression when they question all this agony and pain I am living with?
I am horrified. Am I just naive? Is such spying, yes stalking is a good way to put it, legal? Why on earth should a disabled person not watch a sports event! Go to the theatre etc!
thanks George. I still cannot understand how they were able to even stalk my fb page since it is set to friends only. I guess they expect all disabled people to sit home, become more and more depressed to the point they kill themselves.... now they do not have to pay.
i know excatly what your saying, your in the states by the sound of it so i really cant comment on your dissability companies as i know nothing about how they work.
i am going to have to apply again in june for benifit in the uk and i no they are going to take one look at me and think she can go to work . i have fibromiyalgia which sadly alot of people dont think exsist , any where else than in the mind .
which i can most definatly say by the area of pain in my body is not true ,
but like your good self our pain and physical problems cant be seen and as we dont have any thing visuable apparently they dont excist
, my gp said to stay as physical as i can because if i stop compleatly i become even more restricted in movment ,but if i tell them this they will see it as able to walk ,can work .
yes able to walk but not like a normal person , i did 15 min walks for 5 days in a row ,i was so flaked out for a fortnight after wards i havn't restarted them .again
i dont mind the pain iv sort of got used to it , its the fatigue that gets me .
i hope things sort them self out for you , its terriable when you are damned if you dont and damned if you do. the best thing for anyone is to get out when there ill it helps with the deprresion of being in pain and restricted . TRY and KEEP POSITIVE hun i no it isent easy when people seem to be trying to catch you out
good luck with your op next month .
goverment bodies and agency can find out anything about you . its big brother hun . f/b has been the down fall of many . some for the good when people have really been cheating on benifits and have been caught out.
but also for innocent people like us who are just trying to make the best of life as we can it works against us to . . my husband is a train driver and the amount of suicdes from people jumping from bridges end of 14/beg 15 has gone up big time. people must be so desperate to throw them selve in front of trains . the goverment dont care they wan tthe figures down and they dont care how they do it .
because george if you can do that ,dosent matter that you might have been in bed for 2/3 days after recovering
,thats not seen its just if you can make it to a game or to see a play .you can make it to work ,
what employer will let you come in for 1 day and then have 2/3 days of to recover i dont know ,
I have 2 reputable neural surgeons and a pain clinic doctor telling the disability company that with my condition I will never be able to teach again, yet this is not good enough for them. I do not know what else it takes besides death.
Do the train drivers then have difficulties with the system as they struggle to cope with such awful events? It must be quite unbelievably stressing.
well it goes with the job, you no theres absolutly nothing you can do you cant stop even with a dead mans break.there were 3 /4 between jumpers december and jan this year on yorkshire railaways
, the forth was a surviver god knows how . day before yesterday a train driver had to go home as he got a message that his daughter had been knocked down crossing the road , gues why !
yes you guesed it she was texting on her phone and walked into the road with out looking . she was very lucky the driver was within the speed limit and she got bruising and concussion .
and her dad will get the bill for damage done to the drivers car
we have nearly run down 3 people all been women all of them walking in to the road with out looking and on there phones ,two of them pushing prams . staying in touch is it that important ,no i dont think so .
what ever happened to look left look right and left again before crossing the road. i still do even on one way roads ,because you get some idoits who cant read signs or think they dont apply to them
even if your terminal you get trouble with them .