Shouldn’t Be This Tired

The girl had an appoint­ment at the doc­tor’s office today, then we had to go to Chil­dren’s Health­care of Atlanta to have an EKG and lab work done–just part of the nor­mal mon­i­tor­ing for some of her meds. And that’s all we did today, oth­er than try­ing to pick up my meds (which weren’t ready) and pop­ping by the mailbox. 

So why did I col­lapse by the time we got home, and why do I still have a damned fever?

It’s ridicu­lous­ly frus­trat­ing to be exhaust­ed from fair­ly non-task­ing errands like that. This kind of thing is why, no, I can’t work, at all, out­side the home. It’s why I could­n’t man­age “nor­mal” col­lege classes.

My SS claim is still in process. They told me last year that I should have a hear­ing sched­uled around March 2008. When I called back in March, I was told to expect to hear some­thing in 90 days or so. Now they’re say­ing maybe next year some­time! So I was­n’t sur­prised to read that Geor­gia has the worst back­log in the nation right now, aver­ag­ing 30 months from the time of the sec­ond denial before an admin­is­tra­tive law judge hear­ing is sched­uled, accord­ing to the SSA rep­re­sen­ta­tive with whom I spoke today. And they’re deny­ing more and more peo­ple at the ini­tial fil­ing and first appeal, too, just to try to get rid of us.

If I thought Cana­da would let me emi­grate, I’d be there.