Busy for 10 days doing what?

What can I say? I haven't posted for 10 days. The rapid pace of retirement or, in my case, disability. Yes, just a couple of days ago, I heard from my Prudential rep (who is never friendly, but that must be their job, to be quite stern with you, a poor sick or hurting person) and they granted me disability from December 2007 until February 2009. And speaking of that word granted, I actually thought of that verb when I picked out Grant's name. Grant - to give - it seemed, well, nice. Some people can take all the nice out of it. Her name is Alisa and she told me I had to file for disability thru 3 levels of refusals (unless they "grant" me it).

So on Monday or Tuesday I sent in the online application for social security disability benefits. There is still other stuff I have to do like take my certified birth certificate which I luckily have to my nearest social security office and begin to write down all the medical info I have, which is considerable since I've been at the facial neuralgia since May 2004 and Crohn's disease since 1973 or more recently June 2007 (when all hell broke loose).

Meanwhile I have had, in the last 10 days, about 2 good ones and 8 bad ones. The good ones are not what a "normal" person would call good, but to me, they're awesome. They allow me to do such things that I enjoy, like read, do jigsaw puzzle, and play with Mojo (or as Irma, the cleaning lady calls him, Moho).