Post #133,619
1/5/04 1:54:54 AM
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How 'bout that
I qualify automatically for the Federal dole. I had no idea.
I'm considered "slam dunk" disabled, having condition 4.11, "chronic venous insufficiency of a lower limb with extensive brawny edema". Since it is genetic in origin on the recent record, it's pro-forma to qualify for SSDI benefits. I suppose this means I also get Medicare medical benefits.
At least it looks like this will prevent me from becoming homeless.
Do I like being on the dole? No. But, any "Joe job" I might get would require me being on my feet all the time, and as it is an adventure taking a shower, this is not possible at the moment.
I've had an amazing tendency to minimize my physical problems. I'm sitting here with an oozing hole and extensive tissue damage that makes normal walking impossible, and I'm worried about the shame of the dole. I have to adjust my thinking. This is why we invented these systems. Should I feel guilty about it? And who knows, I may recover under consistent treatment, something I've never been able to count on since this began 17 years ago. Then I can go back to work. Or maybe I'll go back and snag my PhD.
-drl
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Post #133,621
1/5/04 1:56:30 AM
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Please, reap the benefit of all those taxes you have paid.
You deserve it; take it!
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Post #133,628
1/5/04 6:48:56 AM
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Take it
Go back to school.
Stop worrying.
I often considered you a "great thinker", someone who society SHOULD be paying merely to exist. I'm proud that some of my tax dollars will go to you.
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Post #133,629
1/5/04 7:14:23 AM
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Excellent! *SOMETHING* is going properly
You have been contributing to the system all your life. The point of the system is to help those that need it. You qualify. It's great that you do so without a lot of screwing around by the bureaucracy. Take the help without shame or hesitation. Benefits are not always for someone else.
Hugh
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Post #133,636
1/5/04 9:25:36 AM
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Its time to start TAKING BACK from the community
"I believe that many of the systems we build today in Java would be better built in Smalltalk and Gemstone."
-- Martin Fowler, JAOO 2003
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Post #133,638
1/5/04 9:27:23 AM
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great! relax, get well, cash the checks and get a good doc
stick a spork in it.
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Post #133,639
1/5/04 9:32:01 AM
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Good lord!
Why are you worried about that? You need to get a sense of proportion...
Go and get well.
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Post #133,647
1/5/04 10:53:06 AM
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Do it.
Think of it as society's way of paying you to work on the next big physics breakthrough.
I have a blue sign on my door. It says "If this sign is red, you're moving too fast."
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Post #133,653
1/5/04 11:41:40 AM
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Halleujah!
I've been praying daily for a solution to your problems, whether it be medical care, or a job, or something, and it seems that it's happened!\\
That's wonderful, and you have nothing to be ashamed of. You didn't make yourself disabled, so take the option and get better and don't feel guilty!\\
Nightowl >8#
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Post #133,655
1/5/04 11:43:35 AM
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take it and get well
put your mind at ease. You need it, it's available, put the two together. With less to worry about, you can use those brain cycles for more productive purposes.
Have fun,
Carl Forde
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Post #133,664
1/5/04 12:12:26 PM
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Great news!
Having options other than eventual homelessness is a "good thing"!
Don't feel bad about dipping in, that's what the pot was set up for.
Alex
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US president
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Post #133,670
1/5/04 1:02:04 PM
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Take the money and become a physicist
If anyone deserves it, it's you.
--
"It\ufffds possible to build a reasonably prosperous society that invests in its people, doesn\ufffdt invade its neighbors, opposes Israel and stands up to America. (Just look at France.)"
-- James Lileks
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Post #133,769
1/5/04 10:43:36 PM
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Take the money and get healed first
Becoming a physicist will take a lot longer.
lincoln
"Windows XP has so many holes in its security that any reasonable user will conclude it was designed by the same German officer who created the prison compound in "Hogan's Heroes." - Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times
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Post #133,821
1/6/04 7:02:08 AM
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He is already one
I should have said "a physicist on govt payroll" :)
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"It\ufffds possible to build a reasonably prosperous society that invests in its people, doesn\ufffdt invade its neighbors, opposes Israel and stands up to America. (Just look at France.)"
-- James Lileks
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Post #133,673
1/5/04 1:37:23 PM
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Good news!
All you had to do was come up with something that could be easily found ont he checklist. Nice!
Not belittling you, Ross, this is great news. My sister-in-law is certifiably whack-o, and she cannot (to date) get qualified...primarily because she doesn't appear to fit into the checklist as cleanly as you do.
And yes, do readjust your thinking. Remember, you did pay for it....
jb4
shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating that facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT
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Post #133,715
1/5/04 5:47:56 PM
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Physics
- is it worth anything?
[rhetorical]
This is Cthulhu's way of allowing you to uplevel from hunter-gatherer to, a forager in the dark recesses of: exterminating ignorance via directing light quanta into the bogeyman mentations all about.
er - Go With the Flow ---->
(I hereby assign 100% of the portion of my past taxes which are funding the new Plutonium fab - to your account. Vaya con Dali!)
If Salvador Dali had owned a computer, would it have been equipped with surreal ports?
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Post #133,718
1/5/04 5:54:26 PM
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Re: Physics
I'm resistant. "Pull your weight" is part of my breeding. But I have no desire to haunt the streets either. It's a distasteful situation. I could of course easily work if I could stay off my feet for long periods. The real problem is that the problem is intractable. Therapeutic doses of blood thinner cause hemorrhages. Nothing to be done about that. So that is my rationalization, but it is distasteful in the extreme.
-drl
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Post #133,720
1/5/04 5:57:56 PM
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Thinking about physics IS pulling your weight.
It's your weight to pull, and yours only. Quit slacking! Get thinking! You're getting paid for that, you know!
:-)
Glad to hear things are looking up, Ross. Get that hole healed so you can lift some with us at Bill's this year.
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #133,773
1/5/04 10:52:16 PM
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Good!
It helps everyone when people in need take advantage of the safety net.
Hang in there, do what you can with your physics and music (and your other talents). Good luck!
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #133,813
1/6/04 5:19:53 AM
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Nice to have such a well-fitting hole to fit in.
After all you've been through, I'm really pleased for you.
Wade.
Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please
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Post #133,973
1/6/04 10:23:09 PM
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Concur...
...time to give and time to take....this is the time for the latter.
And....go for the PhD. :-)
All the best,
-Slugbug
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Post #133,994
1/7/04 12:41:05 AM
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Good for you
I have been praying that you get better and that you get disability.
Don't worry about it, count it as a blessing. You now will have free time to go back to college, or do anything you want to. Do not be ashamed or feel guilty, this is what disability is for. You paid into SS all these years, and now you are justing getting back what you paid into it before SS funds run out.
I myself am going back to college and maintaining a 3.88 GPA even if my brain is swimming with perscription medication for my mental illnesses and I have problems remembering things and concentrating. Takes me longer to write papers and read pages of a book. Disability helps me to keep my house, even if I cannot keep a job. I feel no shame or guilt for this.
"Lady I only speak two languages, English and Bad English!" - Corbin Dallas "The Fifth Element"
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Post #134,003
1/7/04 1:29:20 AM
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count me in support
Sure, you're reluctant to take the proferred disability stipend, but consider...
Most of us are not opposed in principle to the welfare state, under which those in various forms of need are subsidized, to the tune of fractions of a cent per annum per capita, by those in robust good health with paying jobs. It's the tendency of the welfare state to attract grifters and cheats that frosts people, and you do not fall into that category. You have a vile suppurating sore on your leg; this will only get worse if you're turned out on the street, and then you'll really be a charge on the public purse with those costly emergency room visits. I say take the money with a clean conscience: my tax dollars have been spent on Central American death squads times past—I'll cheerfully underwrite my fraction of a mill on the off chance you're actually on to something with your take on gravity.
cordially,
Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
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