I have thought about filing disability, but we are in too much debt right now. One thing after another has broke down in our house in the last 6 months, right after we made two big purchases of a big screen TV and a new car... which we would have been fine with just those two, but then we had to replace our sewer line, fridge, oven, microwave, hot water heater, sump pump, and probably something else I'm forgeting. We just can't decrease our income right now.
I can't even afford to take off for surgery until Aug (If I'll be off longer than 8 weeks) if I want to supplement my STD with my vac and sick leave to get 100% income.
Plus, my job wouldn't be here when I came back from disability, I know that, I would be off longer than 12 weeks and they wouldn't be able to hold it longer than that. It's a good job, I can't afford to lose it.
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Herniated L4/L5 May 2004 (Bed ridden)
Discsectemy June L4/L5 2004
Discssectemy L4/L5 January 2007
MRI May 5th - showed "moderate sizd protruding disk in the the left paracentral location at the L4-5 level which appears to a more porminent comparison to the prior examination" and "appears to impinge upon the exiting nerve root"
May 11th Dr Apptment - Told that another Discsectemy could be done.
Looking for Surgeon for second Opinion
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