OT ---making assumptions, not a good thing.....

Posted by NC Wayne on September 11, 2005 at 19:40:53 from (64.12.117.7):

Sam 35, in answer to your question from the OT post below concerning disability, yes Mom and Dad both smoked. However DON'T BE PRESUMPTIOUS just because someone has a problem with their lungs that it's smoking related. Mom's problem is heriditary and has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with smoking. I had an Uncle die last year with the same condition within three months of being diagnosed. I'm not trying to be a smart a-- here but don't presume to tell me what the problem is... being heriditary it can just as easily hit me and I've never touched a cigarette. It's got a long medical name and I can't remember the initials they use for it, but suffice it to say it's not good. Mom has had ongoing medical problems since being hit by a car years ago. She nearly died then due to a ruptured vessel causing pressure on her brain. This was caused when her head hit the womans windshield. Lingering complicatins from that as well as the other physical trauma left her in pretty bad health in the years since. Still she managed to work and raise me and my two sisters at the same time and then contunue working when we were all gone from home. She wasn't the healthiest person around but she could work and wasn't "disabled". This time if her condition had been caught by one of her other doctors before it got to the stage it's at now it would have been more treatable though still not curable. But the doctors were too concerned with the mighty dollars they were making from the HMO's to do the proper tests when she started having symptoms. One of her long time doctors even told her that 'it was all in her head' and he wasn't gonna do any tests. That's what prompted her to find the guy she sees now. He couldn't believe the way the other doctor had acted considering her symptoms and ran the needed tests. When the results came back he told her that at the stage her condition had reached that all they could do was put her on full time oxygen and take it one day at a time, but that she was living on borrowed time. Now you can assume all you want but don't tell me that someone who has worked as hard as as my Mom has and raised three kids to boot, and worked even when she really didn't have to, doesn't deserve something back when their to the point that their physically not able to work....especially when those other a--holes are out there collecting their disability checks, not because they aren't physically able to work, but because their just mentally too lazy to get off their a-- and work..... Enough said....

Follow Ups:

• Re: OT ---making assumptions, not a good thing.... MarkB_MI 19:48:07 09/12/05 (1)
  • Re: OT ---making assumptions, not a good thing.... NC Wayne 19:56:01 09/13/05 (0)
• Re: OT ---making assumptions, not a good thing.... Coldiron 18:50:15 09/12/05 (0)
• Re: OT ---making assumptions, not a good thing.... txgrn 16:15:05 09/12/05 (0)
• Re: OT ---making assumptions, not a good thing.... JDknut 03:53:41 09/12/05 (0)

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