I was feeling wierd yesterday.  I couldn't figure out what it was. Thought it was my medicine cause after I took all of them it when it first hit me.  I took a nap after grand doggy left and I felt better so I decided I needed to go get a bit of groceries for hubbys lunch the next day. Got up to the train tracks and there was a train sitting there. I was about car #10 in line so I figured it would be moving soon.  I had looked in my rear view mirror and there sat a Sheriff car.  That didn't bother me. People started making U turns in front of me and going back the way they came. It was 1/2 hr later that everything started to move. It's the GM loading station and they are only to tie up traffic for no more than 15 minutes. One train was moving real slow, one train was just sitting there and good lord there came another train going in the opposite direction really fast. That's when the panic attack hit. I didn't know what to do and I don't know what triggered it. If I still smoked, I swear I would have ripped the bottom off the pack of cigarettes and smoked them all at once. What's bad about it was the fact that when the last car of the fast moving train went by, there sat another train not moving but blocking the road.  This was now an hour after we all got to the crossing. The cop got mad, turned on his lights got out of his car and actually walked up the tracks beside the stopped train until he found someone from CSX. They moved the remaining train off the track and we finally got moving.
Then I got home and got the mail. Yay!!! a letter from Allsup. Went inside and read it. GOOD NEWS! they said. The ODAR received my case and is awaiting action by the administrative law judge. The hearing level takes an estimated 8 to 18 months but in some instances it takes 24 months or longer to schedule a hearing. What a bummer.   By the time I get a hearing, I will be eligible close to early retirement age. So I ate some M&M's and went to my happy place. Music turned up loud as I could singing at the top of my lungs. |
"in august 2008, i accidentally found this site and i love it. i have struggled with narcolepsy since 1993 and to this day i have never met another narcoleptic in person. to share my story and read the stories of others as well as try to help others means the world to me. i want to thank all those who are there to listen to me and to give me advice...." (sleepySheri)
