The ICI Experience:

So, I'm trying to get more personal in my writing. I like how my friend Aviva on SickMomma keeps an updated record on her doctor's appointments, etc. on her blog. But this post is even more personal; it's about a crying meltdown I had recently. From Fibro Viv, on Being Credible: If my own family does not support me, what am I to do? During my recent vacation, I was reminded of the lack of support for my current plight (cannot work, waiting for SS disability hearing) I get from some of my family members. I've accepted my father's view that I should just keep on keepin' on. I/we don't discuss the subject of my health at all, except in the most cursory of terms. But when I learned of another family member's (by marriage) feeling that it's not right for me (or anyone else, apparently) to be receiving assistance (which I do, from whoever will give it to me), or applying for public housing (which I'm currently in the process of - I've been li...

Some of the more recent history of human rights - From Wikipedia on Human Rights: The history of human rights covers thousands of years and draws upon religious, cultural, philosophical and legal developments throughout recorded history. We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal , that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights , that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness . United States Declaration of Independence ~Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776, as authorized by the Continental Congress, July 2, 1776 with minor revisions and released publicly on July 4, 1776. “ ...recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world ” —Preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 The term inalienable rights refers to a theoretical set of individual human ...

Went to the local DFCS office to apply for food stamps and medicare again. Bad enough having to do this, but now I know everyone in the office since I used to work there and it's exponentially embarassing. I told the lady who was doing my intake that, and said I just felt like crying. And then I did cry. I'm sure menopause isn't helping with the situation. I cried last night about the season finales to Desperate Housewives and Brothers and Sisters. But I laughed too. That was good. The welfare office was not good. I have to go back tomorrow to talk to the actual case worker. I also talked to three different social security offices today RE: SSDI app. What a mess. I'll have to write about that later, if I feel like it.

This is a history of my blog/journal attempts prior to this one. I started out at http://sherrillynn.greatestjournal.com/, as a record of the process I was going through in applying for Social Security Disability Income (SSDI) in 2004. Then I was able to start working and the journal laid unused for a couple of years. I worked part time in 2004-2005, then got a full time job in July of 2005. This summer of 2006 I was terminated from the full time job which I really liked, because I was sick with invisible (or concealed) chronic illnesses. Then I decided my blog should be a record of the claim I was filing on the discrimination of my employer on the basis of my disability. Then I (quite wisely) decided it probably wasn't too good to be posting stuff about my discrimination claim against my former employer, while the investigation was going on. Now the blog is about what happened, what's happening, and how I deal with it. I'm trying to channel my feelings into som...