Thread:OylerD/@comment-25989346-20160422203748/@comment-26904473-20160424230241

Dean, stick it out and keep jumping through those hoops. It will be arduous and time consuming, but with just the little bit you've shared on here I have no doubt that you will be successful at the end of this. It is truly a process. And if your attorney gave you an outline for the doctors to follow, that is excellent! Hopefully there are those proper legal phrases along with the medical terms to describe your conditions and their extent and effect on you. It all comes down to being a "blacksmith of the right words" to cut through the disability wall and get it awarded for you.

The ALJ who heard my case didn't get the timeline of when my symptoms started to occur because I said "after I defended for my thesis" and the word "after" didn't register with him, which led him to think that I was running around campus while in grad school and couldn't possibly have had the symptoms I was describing that left me unable to walk, etc. So very important to have a timeline presented also I guess, but it depends on the ALJ. Your attorney will know and sounds like you have a good one! Good luck on gathering the info you need and as always, wish you the best because you deserve the best!