I haven't admitted this to anyone here at DU

[madamesilverspurs]

39. I feel your apprehension

having dealt with faceless indifferent bureaucrats for the last fifty years or so. There's really nothing quite like trying to explain that having to crawl because standing to walk isn't possible, only to be answered with "Don't any of your friends have a car you could ride in?" (That was a real conversation with a social services worker who insisted I needed to come in to fill out some papers.) There were many days when I just laid on the floor and cried.

Over the years there have been so many episodes of sparring with one office or another; and it doesn't help that we no longer have case workers, we have technicians -- and doesn't that speak volumes about how we are regarded.

I just spent the last two months in a bit of panic because one of the county nitwits decided that I really am not entitled to the status that was conferred by Social Security Disability more than thirty years ago; and that decision had a wide cascading effect across a number of benefit structures. The county had managed to lose my recertification documents (something for which this county is notorious) and it was up to me to fix it. I finally reached someone who agreed to send another packet for me to complete and resubmit; and I sent it via registered mail so that I some proof that they had received it. I've received nothing from the county, but a letter from Social Security confirmed that the error had been corrected and I would be immediately reimbursed. As my mother used to sigh, "Ye gods!"

Anyway, like you, I see no reason to credit the incoming administration with any humane inclination, they will be who they are. All this wordiness is just to let you know that someone in Colorado is thinking of you. And I very much wish I could do more.