I had to quit my job in Denmark because of PAH and I am currently in my home country Greece. I have no information yet if I will ever be able to work again. It's very heavy for me and my family, because I am only 34 and my younger sister also had a health problem that caused her difficulties with her career. I have zero income currently. Although medication has helped me I am often tired.
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I don’t know how your disability system works in Greece, but here, with Social Security, PH does qualify for disability though statistically they reject almost all applications initially. I did my own appeal process back in New York for a different lung issue and had to turn in quite a few sworn affidavits. Even then I think it only went through as I started to have stroke symptoms while being examined by their own doctor and they sent me to a hospital via ambulance.
I'm in NYS and mine went through first yome in just a couple months
Glad to hear you've improved and hoping you find a job that suits you really well 🙏🏻
I am doing currently much better than i was first diagnosed. My RHC was postponed. I do not have any problems with oxygen and its just my walking capacity that is not perfect and lifting weights. My previous work was not so physical to justify going completely out of work. So I was advised to just apply for sedentary jobs.
Julie,
Knowing how the disability system works, when yours went through so rapidly with no denials, did you feel like that is confirmation that you are worse or a lot messed up than you thought? ha I know I did.