Sandi Tonight

She remains the same with her stomach bothering her and cuasing frequent trips to the bathroom. While she is very naseuated at times, she has still not thrown up which is the one small peice of good news in this gastric distress. Expected to last a couple more days before subsiding.

Got reams of paperwork from the state disability review folks today in the mail. Of course, this stuff duplicates everything they already have via Social Security and was supposed to be avoided by the expedited application filed back in January through MASH. When Sandi filed then it was supposed to take 120 days max to determine she did qualify for Social Security Disability. Now, because the state of Texas is making her fill all this out --which she can't do until she finally gets back home in mid or late June---it means that it is going to be months more before she is approved --if she is---by the state so that she can receive her SSD.

I'm absolutely disgusted. I called her this evening and broke the news and she started crying hard. Just brutal.

Sandi and Social Security Disability Interview

Sandi had her three hour plus interview with a representative of MASH for Social Security Disability this morning. It only covered the last two years of her medical stuff as there is so much to document on that. They will pull the records going back another fifteen years.

This MASH thing is supposed to expedite the process for patients such as Sandi with advanced cancer and other serious conditions. Whether or not this actually saves time as sixty days have already passed since she first filed for all this through the doctor's office, as part of this expetdited process, remains to be seen.

All it seems to have done for sure, at this point, is exhaust her so she has gone back to bed for a nap.