Victory!!!

I'm doing a victory dance because I won my disability case! Amazing as it is on my first try I was able to not only get approved for disability but they also back paid me for the time I was unable to work since May of 2008 when I first got hospitalized. So I've got a pretty good chunk of change sitting in a savings account and I'm finally not having to worry how I'm going to pay my bills each month. Wow! It's amazing how much better you feel when you're not constantly stressed out over money issues.

So since things are on the up and up I'm signing up for school to be a medical transcriptionist. My plan all along has been to get a treatment regiment that allows me to be in a sort of "remission." I'm going to use this next year to go through treatment, do school at my own pace, and just get myself in better health. Of course this may take more than a year but at this point my doctor and I are shooting for the goal of "remission" in a years time. After which point I would like to get off disability and go back to work full time.

At the moment I'm sitting here going through medical bills and calling to settle what debts I can. Luckily through all of this I've learned that since it's taken me so long to be able to settle my debts I'm able to haggle back and forth until we come to a lower amount that both parties agree will cancel out the debt if paid in full. I'm trying to make the money stretch and pay as many people off as I can.

I'm really enjoying the fact that my fatigue (which for the most part has been the hardest symptom for me to deal with) has lessened drastically and I'm now able to things that I enjoy. Zane will be flying in on the 23rd to stay for a couple of days and meet my family. I'm super excited about this and hoping everything will go well. Guess that's all the news I have for now :)