Posted by Rockets on May 15, 2000, at 20:01:21
Hi everyone,
I'm going back to work next Monday. The psych doctor said I shouldn't file for disability for the 5 weeks I've been on medical leave because insurance companies may decline my short term mental illness application. It would take me months of legal combat with them to get the $1,000.00 (which totals 66% of lost income for that period).
Furthermore, if I do file the disability application then it is on my permanent record that I was a basket case for the periods of ___ to ____. You get the idea. So I've decided not to file. Now that all my savings are gone, I'm going to go back to good old work.. to the job that helped put me in this condition in the first place! Yee haw.
I'll just have to see how it goes. Either I will be able to hang on and work there as I get better or I'll just end up in the emergency room again and then a month after that be putting my application into Starbucks Coffee. I'll be a coffee boy. Heh.. seriously I will be if that happens.
So.. what a trip. I'm so impaired I can't drive on the freeway anymore but I'm going back to work a poorer person. Live and learn. Let me know your thoughts.
poster:Rockets
thread:33523
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