Hey everybody, Thursday at 11 a.m. Central, I have an interview with unemployment. They want more explanation of why I didn't file when I was first out of work (um, well, for one, I was unconscious in a hospital bed for the first 3 weeks or so, and two, I didn't know I had a valid reason for filing till somebody mentioned it in mid-Feb.). They also want to know why I can't work fulltime right now (um, well, drs. don't think I can handle it and have only cleared me for 20 hrs., and I'm not convinced I can handle THAT).

I applied for SSI and SSDI, but it will take them at least another month to get their ***** together and make a decision. Right now I have no income, and my family is beginning to resent the hell out of me because they've been paying most of my bills since December.

The best I can hope for with unemployment is that they will agree I qualify, and backdate a check to the first week I didn't work. The least I can hope for is that they will agree I qualify, and allow me to start collecting benefits from the date I applied. Either way, I need money out of these folks, or I have no choice but to give up my independence, beloved city, friends, support system including T and pdoc (both of whom I've had for years), and move to MN to live with my sister. My family is attributing the current state of my mental health -- crappy -- to the fact that I just won't give in to them and go do that right away. *I* don't see why they fail to understand that, at nearly 41 years old, and having lived alone since age 21, I really don't want to go live with a family member till I'm healthy enough to get a fulltime job.

So please -- wherever you are Thursday at 11 a.m. Central time -- send some positive vibes, or good karma, or whatever your belief system allows my way! Somebody, somewhere, sometime, should WIN one against a bureaucracy, and I need it to be me! LOL

Wish me luck, and thanks.

Candy