Same here,

My students and home town came through with fund raisers and anything else I could have asked for while in treatments. Not so much from the places that you would really expect support from.

SS, no luck, but then I came through the whole experience in fair shape, can work a few hours here and there, not enough to survive on though.

It's been 6 months since I had any medical coverage or minimal income. Still no help and I really would like to get in for a follow-up, but I am not the kind to run up a bill I KNOW I can't ever pay.

Owning a couple of $400 cars, buying the crumbling old house I have been in for 30 years and getting a little uneployment seems to be the barriers. It seems that you must be living in a cardboard box before they will talk to you, but then again, with no perminant address...

Interestingly enough, minimum funding IS available to go back to work, but like getting the "unofficial" diagnosis years ago, they can't actually assist with medical issues, even if to be certain you aren't going to drop dead after they pump $$$ into putting you back to work.

Time to give another try to all the above, but it seems to me that having a little faith and not expending all of my energy on dead end bunny trails might actually be best. Keeping a sharp eye out for stray METs of course.

Tired and broke,

UncleVern