![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
The roller-coaster has left the tracks.
In early October I got one of the periodic forms from California EDD to recertify my disability. Like a good drone, I took it to the Medical Secretaries office. They take forever to do anything; so I wasn't surprised that it took two weeks for the card saying "your paperwork has been mailed" to show up.
As an aside.. mail? Hand filled in forms? It's 2011!
A week after that I get a notice that my state disability has been terminated. Because it has been determined that I am able to do my "usual duties." Bullshit. I'm still on blood thinners, and my usual duties at every driving job I have ever held means bruising, bleeding, and fall risks. Extremely confused, I email my primary care physician asking WTF was going on. In response I got a two sentence reply that had four mistakes.. including the doctor misspelling his own name.
Even more perturbed (not to mention pissed off and frightened as all hell) I write back, and also contact my pulmonologist. Finally, I get some real answers. The PCP had told the state that I could resume limited work but not my old job. They ignored him. Dr. Butcher said that as long as I was careful I could go back to driving, but nothing like what I did at PODS or Lord&Sons. I figure that since my own doctor said "he can't perform his usual duties" I have pretty good grounds for an appeal. But out of curiosity, I check Craigslist to see who is hiring drivers. The second thing I see is an add for auto parts delivery. They want people with small open bed pick-ups. Which I happen to own, and they advertise a good starting wage. Call them, go through the overly perky automated system, get a call back. . .
I have an interview tomorrow at 1000hrs up in Belmont.
Uh, yeah.
As an aside.. mail? Hand filled in forms? It's 2011!
A week after that I get a notice that my state disability has been terminated. Because it has been determined that I am able to do my "usual duties." Bullshit. I'm still on blood thinners, and my usual duties at every driving job I have ever held means bruising, bleeding, and fall risks. Extremely confused, I email my primary care physician asking WTF was going on. In response I got a two sentence reply that had four mistakes.. including the doctor misspelling his own name.
Even more perturbed (not to mention pissed off and frightened as all hell) I write back, and also contact my pulmonologist. Finally, I get some real answers. The PCP had told the state that I could resume limited work but not my old job. They ignored him. Dr. Butcher said that as long as I was careful I could go back to driving, but nothing like what I did at PODS or Lord&Sons. I figure that since my own doctor said "he can't perform his usual duties" I have pretty good grounds for an appeal. But out of curiosity, I check Craigslist to see who is hiring drivers. The second thing I see is an add for auto parts delivery. They want people with small open bed pick-ups. Which I happen to own, and they advertise a good starting wage. Call them, go through the overly perky automated system, get a call back. . .
I have an interview tomorrow at 1000hrs up in Belmont.
Uh, yeah.
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
Good Luck!
And if you don't get the job because of your health, you have something to go back to EDD with.
Re: Good Luck!