This embarrassing disease should be no reason to lose your job. Here are some tips to help get you back on your career track.
Jennifer Jaff, an attorney with Advocacy for Patients with Chronic Illnesses Inc., in Farmington, Conn says, “A good strategy is to keep a diary for at least a week. Write down the time when you go into the bathroom, the time when you come out of the bathroom, what you eat, what time you eat it — everything you do that week,” she says. Bring those records when you have meetings to discuss your case so you will have concrete examples of the impact that Crohn’s disease has on your life.
One of the most important tips is to be brutally honest about your everyday situations. Telling a social security judge that you need to be near the bathroom is not going to win a case — but if you tell the judge that you are fecally incontinent that holds a completely different meaning.
For the full article, visit EveryDayHealth.com.
For more information check out Advocacy For Patients and the National Organization of Social Security Claimants.
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