Bruce's Journal

[CntryBoy777]

Well I was turned down several times, and had to get a Lawyer for SSI to even review the case. Most lawyers here work on a percentage of the 'Backpay', which I didn't get, so the lawyer was no cost to me. It may be well worth your while to "Jump thru the Hoops" to find out. I would, but it could take a year or so to get it....it is the Feds so they don't get in any hurry at all.

 

[Latestarter]

a good SSDI lawyer would have been my next recommendation. You have to fight for it sometimes.

 

[Bruce]

Yeah and a 'good' one can get SSDI for people that do not deserve it. My older sister's soon to be ex is an example. Somehow he got SSDI for something like a 15% disability and there is NOTHING that would keep him from doing any number of high paying jobs. I asked my sister how that happened. The answer was 'he got a lawyer'.

On the other hand, a good friend of ours had a stroke 2 years ago at the age of 57. STILL can't find the right words to say and will give directions while driving saying "turn left, but point right". If he is driving he can get where he is going because he knows what he means. It's like the "search the dictionary for a word to describe this thought" link is broken. Turned down for SSDI (even short term when few people could understand what he was trying to convey and then only with almost a game of 20 questions to figure it out), because he can do some kind of work. Now instead of being a well paid electrical engineer as he was for 30 years, he is cleaning rooms in a retirement home trying hard not to lose HIS home. But he isn't disabled according to the government even though he was totally unemployable for at least a year.

Given DD1 has no 'back pay' to recover I doubt a lawyer would take the case other than for way too much an hour in hopes s/he can push it through.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Well it certainly wouldn't hurt to check into it tho. The consultation is Free and ya can't be charged til ya sign the "Dotted Line".
This is not a "Racist Comment", but just the Facts of what has been faced personally by me.
I have been turned down for any assistance by every gov't agency my whole life, mainly because I am a "White Male", what hasn't been turned down for that reason, is because I only have 1 kidney. When I had the 1st attack in '05, I was out of work, no insurance, married with a house on 3acres and a 16yr old in the house. I went to get some assistance with foodstamps, medicaid, or anything else I could to survive. The medical bills alone were over $125,000 I was turned down because I was a "White Male", but Joyce and the youngst daughter qualified for Medicaid. So, I lost Everything. That's why I am here, and I decided to Fight for the $$$ that I'd paid since I was 18yrs old. It was worth the Fight, and I have plenty of family members that have paid too; and, any of them would rather choose to support your daughter over the Trash that is "Stealing" it....someday soon it will be too Late....don't let it "Bite" your A$$....TRY

 

[Latestarter]

I believe as a child of parents who have paid in all their working lives, she would be entitled to full compensation based on your SS deposits. Any of her doctors would be able to present evidence that she's incapable of working at any job and more specifically anything involving a computer screen and since we're in the "digital age" where just about any job involves computer screens, I'd say that rules out about everything. She should be eligible back to her 21st birthday minimum or possibly her 18th. And you won't be there to help her forever, so starting now while you can would probably be best. just a thought...

 

[Bruce]

Pictures of eggs that were frozen on 10/30/16. I used the last two today for pancakes. After mixing with the oil and milk, they seemed no different than at the same point with fresh. Took this picture today since I hadn't taken one of the six I used to make omelettes on Jan 1.



Thawed in the refrigerator in a bowl (it was in a ziplock), no "assistance" to speed thawing.


After mixing with a fork. There are some "globules" at first and is a bit thicker than fresh eggs. No globules today but I used a whisk, not a fork.


The front of the stove is a wee bit lower than the back so fresh eggs run toward the front and I have to use the spatula to keep them from getting too thin in the back or running into the grease gutter on the right side. These didn't, I had to spread them some after pouring them on with a measuring cup.


When asked, the 3 people eating them (including me) could tell no difference from the ones made with fresh eggs the week before.


Verdict: I will be freezing more eggs next fall. I have no frozen eggs left and only 8 fresh in the fridge dating back to the beginning of December. Going to have to squeak by with those until the girls start laying again. Unless they start soon, Sunday breakfast will be pancakes or waffles as they use fewer eggs per person.

 

[CntryBoy777]

How many dzs did ya start with?

 

[greybeard]

Well, regarding SS disability, the words 'should' and 'would' are debatable. The bar is set pretty high to discourage SS disability fraud, which according to GAO is in the billions of $ every year. This of course makes it more difficult for deserving people to be approved and receive benefits, but I suppose that is the price we pay for living in a somewhat dishonest society.
I don't think there is a nation anywhere in the world that doesn't have a govt program that isn't abused, our own certainly included. I've personally seen it abused in the Agent Orange program and even more so in the PTSD aspect several times.

 

[Bruce]

How many dzs did ya start with?

I only froze 1 dozen for testing purposes. Haven't tried baking (actually, I don't bake, but DD1 does) with frozen eggs. Gets a bit 'messier' then since some recipes call for whites separately from yolks. You can freeze them separately of course. I THINK the whites would work out better since the yolks are the part that tends to get thick.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Ya still squeezing out Eggs up there?