Latest Pathetic Conservative Attack on Social Security: Disability Fraud Hysteria

[DebJ]

73. It took 2 years for my Mom to get SSDI after she was crushed in an auto accident

at the age of 60. The accident was in 1986; she got her first SSDI check in 1988.

She was forced into a wheelchair for the rest of her life when some drunk (in his 30s but driving his Dad's
car I am guessing because he couldn't get his OWN car insurance; so many are repeat offenders)
did a 180 degree turn on 355 in Montgomery County, Maryland, and drove at 55mph right under
her truck, through the drive shaft.

Of course the driver and his passenger were fine...they were airlifted to Baltimore shock trauma and
released one hour later. Their car was littered with beer cans. No tests for alcohol levels were done.

My mother, just before her 60th birthday, had to be cut out of her vehicle. Her left eye socket was
crushed (and she later suffered cancer in that eye). Her jaw was crushed and had to be rebuilt.
The dashboard smashed into her body and her legs. A two inch piece of bone just disappeared from
one leg; likely pulverized to dust from the impact. Every major bone in her body had a compound
fracture. She had majory surgery every week for 12 weeks,
and her blood was completely transfused 11 times, leaving her now with severe immune issues and
healing of any injury takes forever (a bee sting took 2 years to heal). She was in a coma for a long time.
We all were visting her daily for many weeks, and even though she spoke to us, she doesn't remember the
visits.

The passenger in the other car sued my MOTHER, and just a few weeks after leaving shock trauma where
she had been for months, she had to be wheeled into the courtroom and face the accuser....case was tossed
out, but the stress on my very ill mother was enormous.

Suffering from compulsive responsibility, my mother actually attempted to return to her clerical job for
a few weeks, but it was way too much.

She has suffered repeatedly for the last almost 30 years because of the ramifications of this accident.
Among the suffering, my Dad was forced to retire early, cutting out hundreds of dollars a month of
retirement benefits he WOULD have had, so a loss of income for the rest of their lives...so far almost
30 years....for every single month for forever, hundreds of dollars of lost income.

IT TOOK SOCIAL SECURITY TWO YEARS TO APPROVE HER DISABILITY.
Even though on top of the injuries, she already suffers from some genetic disorders, causing
heart and bone problems (like a collapsing spine).