If you haven't already found one, there are disability lawyers who specialize in cutting through the BS. We engaged one and it sped things up considerably. We didn't get the lawyer until somewhere around year 5, which in hindsight was far too long for us to try to go it alone.

Part of my wife's problem was that what she suffers from is fairly rare and often misdiagnosed, and since even the quote-unquote normal ailments get the automatic denial-until-you-appeaase-us-by-appealing-repeatedly treatment, ones that are less common get sent to the special hell.

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