New at this, so any helpful hints will be greatly appreciated. I am a 40 year female. Married for 18 years, and have one child. I am disabled. I have not worked a full time job since July 2005. I was a certified lab Tech/Phelbotomist for 15 years. I enjoyed my work very much and miss it. Due to outstanding health problems I can no longer work. My Husband, "Dana" has been very supportive. I have filed for disability three times now. The first two I did on my own an of course I was denied. I now have Mr. Crumley and Assoc. on the case. We are awaiting a hearing date now. It should be coming up very soon. But not soon enough. Life has been hard for us the last three years. We have reached levels of stress unimaginable. It has reached its limit I'm afraid. My poor husband works himself to death just to keep us barely afloat. My son whom is 17 yrs old, "D" is his name. He had an accident last Sept13 that left him with some short term memory problems. He now is disabled as well. He however was granted his disability immediately Thank goodness. D is attending GTCC in the evenings trying to obtain his GED. I have push him to at least make this accomplishment. I do not believe he would have persued this if I had not insisted. He really is a great kid. Always has been. Somehow a year ago he got of track when we moved from where we had been living for 9 years. He did not adjust well to the change. He hated the High School in the new area. The kids there were so totally different from his old home. Things just did not click for him. My husband has reached his limit I'm afraid. I am seeing signs of resession. He is tired and I understand completely. When and if I do get the disability soon, we will be taking a vacation that is very much needed and well deserved. We are very strong in our faith. I do believe it is the only thing that has gotton us through this ordeal and continues to today. We were attending a wonderful church in our home town of Asheboro, NC. The church was C4. Gosh we miss it so. We tried to go for a while, but with gas soaring to outrageous prices it has made it difficult for us to continue. So we had to visit some other churches in our area. Praise the Lord we were able to find one that is so remotely close to C4. The name of the new church is DayStar. They are rocking. If you live in the Greensboro, NC area, an are a believer, you should visit and see if you do not just fall in love. They have an awesome youth group. I am currently trying to get my son involved with it. He needs to be around people his age. He is with my husband an I and our friends way to much. He is seventeen but acts 35. You know what I mean?

So as you can see I am an average lady, with an average life. I desperately needed a place to express myself. There is times when I have so much locked up in my head that it is not even funny. I think I am going to expload. Finding blogger was great. I keep journals, I have for years, but I prefer this better. Hopefully I myself will meet some nice christian people that can give advise. I guess this will do for the first time. You can believe there will be more to come about me and my world. See ya.