# SSDI Docs Thurs. And Fri. Wish Me Luck! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 15, 2009, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ssdi-docs-thurs-and-fri-wish-me-luck/513870 "2009-10-15T04:00:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ssdi-docs-thurs-and-fri-wish-me-luck/513870/21 "2009-10-18T02:00:37Z")
I’m working on reporting the results of the SSDI examination _here_, but the most _immediate_ results are on the blog. If you need me to be more “clinical” I can do that, but what it boils down to, is the decision of the “tribunal” (that’s just a made-up word, BTW). And were I to not **get** appoved the first time? Let me out of my “stall”! I’m ready to join the herd. We’re living to be older, but we do NOT deserve spending our last days on the street! [www.alz.org](http://www.alz.org) Thanks! Q ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ssdi-docs-thurs-and-fri-wish-me-luck/513870/22 "2009-10-18T02:31:45Z")
I’m crossing my fingers for you, **Quasi**. It sounds like you had better docs than the one I got sent to some years ago by Social Security, who in five minutes decided that the rare diagnosis that had taken several expert doctors from the time I was nine months until I was _five years old_ to pin down was wrong and I just have chronic scoliosis…riiiiiiiiiiiight. I had the fun of telling that to somebody today who has a similar diagnosis to mine and the look on her face was _priceless_. They didn’t turn me down when I first applied, though. And I’m now off it, though obviously our situations are totally different. It was there when I needed it. Hang in there! ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ssdi-docs-thurs-and-fri-wish-me-luck/513870/23 "2009-10-18T03:31:50Z")
Were I to give SDMB as a ref, and were they to track my posts? Guess what they’d do? 🙂 See what I mean? (cue that _Cuckoo’s Nest_, “lining up for the meds” music) God, I’m just _kidding!_ 🙂 ETA: Thank You White Rabbit! Q ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ssdi-docs-thurs-and-fri-wish-me-luck/513870/24 "2009-10-18T13:49:04Z")
Glad to help! ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ssdi-docs-thurs-and-fri-wish-me-luck/513870/25 "2009-10-18T18:19:13Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > The comments in the other disability thread might be worth bringing up here – in at least some Social Security offices, policy apparently is to deny any disability claim until proof is adduced, often by a lawyer or advocate. Not true. Not even CLOSE to being true. Although, admittedly, it feels true a lot. There are a lot of people who waited for years to get approved. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ssdi-docs-thurs-and-fri-wish-me-luck/513870/26 "2009-10-18T19:04:30Z")
I wonder… one of the disadvantages of hiring people with experience is that you get them “mistrained.” Your company does things a certain way, but the people you hire (specially if they’ve had a single job) arrive with the idea that “everybody does things!” the way they were done in their other job(s). You know, like that guy who thought that “everybody” measured density in kg/gallon… (yeah, he’d only had the one job). So I wonder and it’s just idle musings, how many of the SS workers whose instinct is “just say no” had their previous job as the first-line “just say no” folks that some insurance companies use. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ssdi-docs-thurs-and-fri-wish-me-luck/513870/27 "2009-10-18T19:52:44Z")
Oopsie, forgot to mention that the doc I saw when I got approved was great. The idiot was when I was sent for a review a few years on. That’s what I get for posting when I’m slightly under the influence, I suppose. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ssdi-docs-thurs-and-fri-wish-me-luck/513870/28 "2009-10-19T21:03:31Z")
**Quasi** , lots of good vibes headed your way! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ssdi-docs-thurs-and-fri-wish-me-luck/513870/29 "2009-10-19T21:05:51Z")
Glad to help! ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ssdi-docs-thurs-and-fri-wish-me-luck/513870/30 "2009-10-19T21:15:36Z")
Looked at location. Georgia! Whew - that’s one file that is never gonna come across my desk! Good luck! Re: retroactivity, you could be eligible for retroactive benefits before the date of award. The regs are available on SSA’s public site. ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2009, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ssdi-docs-thurs-and-fri-wish-me-luck/513870/31 "2009-10-21T16:17:03Z")
Good luck, Quasi. Give 'em hell! ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2009, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ssdi-docs-thurs-and-fri-wish-me-luck/513870/32 "2009-10-21T16:21:33Z")
Do you know when you’ll hear about the decision? ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2009, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ssdi-docs-thurs-and-fri-wish-me-luck/513870/33 "2009-10-21T16:31:46Z")
Didn’t catch this thread 'til just now–good luck, **Quasi**! ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2009, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ssdi-docs-thurs-and-fri-wish-me-luck/513870/34 "2009-10-21T22:13:07Z")
> [@PandaBear77](#): > > Not true. Not even CLOSE to being true. > > Although, admittedly, it feels true a lot. There are a lot of people who waited for years to get approved. I have to disagree with you. Social workers, shrinks and lawyers here in Pennsylvania have always said that everybody gets turned down the first time. I also found that the intake person for the county office was EXTREMELY unpleasant. Everybody who has handled my case since then has been a saint. I got the distinct impression he was chosen for intake to scare people off. **Quasimodem** IIRC, when I was finally approved I was retropaid til the date of my application. After being denied a few times and getting even more red tape and paperwork thrown at us then even my father (37 years for the Department of Defense and a master of bureaucracy) could handle, we went to a lawyer. He found that I had finally been approved that day and charged us nothing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ssdi-docs-thurs-and-fri-wish-me-luck/513870.md?page=1)