Archive for 'Disability' Category
Social Security Misinformation
22 November 2010For five months I’ve waited for Social Security to make a decision about my disability application. In that time I probably spoke to people in the SS office at least ten times and every single time I was told that if my application was approved I would be paid back to the date I became [...]
Answered Prayer
12 November 2010After five months of waiting and being unable to get any answers I’ve finally been approved for Social Security disability. Even though my case is clear cut I still feared being turned down and having to fight. And now I find my benefit is almost $100 more per month than we had calculated. Thanks to [...]
iPad Good & Bad
18 October 2010Let me start by saying the iPad is a game changer, indeed, a life changer for me. Even though the screen is small, with the right glasses and holding it close enough I am now able to read fairly easily for the first time since becoming legally blind several months ago. I just cannot adequately [...]
Changes
8 October 2010A lot has happened since my last post. We’ve moved from South Carolina to Georgia, we’ve rented out our condo in SC, we’ve been looking for a church and I’ve triedti find things to occupy my time. That’s been no easy task with my new limitations. But that is changing. I haven’t posted because it [...]
Latest Update
8 August 2010I know I’ve been a little slack in posting but I have an excuse. We’ve been pretty consumed with trying to move back to GA. And now that is happening! <y lovely wife finally found a job in Atlanta making much more than she can make in Charleston. We move in two weeks back to [...]
A Little More Boredom Please
19 July 2010For the past month or so I’ve had off again, on again pain in my right hip. At times it’s been pretty severe and I wasn’t sure whether I actually had a hip problem or a sciatic nerve problem. I wasn’t too worried about it because it had pretty much gone away when it came [...]
New Ideas
9 July 2010I wrote, a few posts back, about my experience with the lady from the South Carolina Commission for the Blind and how she basically accused me of being in denial. As time passes and I’m forced to face my limitations I find that she may have been right. I’ve been convinced that I could still [...]
A Blind Man’s Car
2 July 2010One of the hardest adjustments I’ve had to make is the loss of my independence because I can no longer drive. I haven’t given up my license yet because of my hope that something might change but that’s a pretty slim hope at best. Then there’s my car. I have an SUV that I used [...]
Assumptions and Conclusions
28 June 2010While I’ve had a few down days. I think I’ve generally handled this whole blindness thing pretty well. Others seem to think so too, if their reactions to my reaction are any indication. I seem to get one of two responses. The more prevalent response is amazement at how well I’m dealing with it. Some [...]
Blogging Blind
23 June 2010Blogging while legally blind presents some interesting challenges. Generally speaking it is relatively easy to control the size of things in a browser. In WordPress, however, when you make things too big on the post editing page, the text area goes under the sidebar controls, making it impossible to see some of what you’re writing. [...]
