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Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia and Receiving Social Security Disability

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Leukemia is a type of cancer that affects your blood or bone marrow. It is evidenced by an abnormal accumulation of blood cells that are usually leukocytes (white blood cells).

Leukemia is used to refer to a variety of diseases. It is pathologically and clinically divided into groups and categories. The first division is into leukemia’s acute and chronic forms. Then, leukemia is divided according to the kind of blood cell that it affects. These two divisions are myelogenous and lymphocytic.

Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) is one of the types of lymphocytic leukemia. It affects your blood and bone marrow.

Acute lymphocytic leukemia gets its name from the word “acute” that indicates that the disease develops rapidly and affects immature blood cells, rather than mature blood cells. “Lymphocytic” is a reference to the white blood cells that the disease affects.

Acute lymphocytic leukemia is also known by other names. It is also called acute lymphoblastic leukemia and acute childhood leukemia.

Although adults, especially those 65 and over, get this form of leukemia, it is the most common form of leukemia in young children. In fact, acute lymphocytic leukemia represents 80% of all the childhood acute leukemias. Most of the cases occur in children 3 – 7 years of age.

There are several effects that acute lymphocytic leukemia can have on you. Some of these are:

Severe or frequent nosebleeds
Shortness of breath
Fever
Weight loss
Bleeding from your gums
Fatigue, weakness or a general loss of energy
Infections that happen often
Skin that is pale
Loss of appetite
Swollen lymph nodes that cause lumps around and in your groin, stomach, underarm and neck.

These effects caused by acute lymphocytic leukemia can be debilitating. You or a loved one may be disabled and unable to work because of this disease.

You may be looking for help if this is the case. You may be searching for financial help.

Where will that financial assistance come from? Who can you turn to? Who can and will help you?

Have you, on behalf of your child with disability, or your loved one applied for that financial assistance from the Social Security Administration because of the disability caused by acute lymphocytic leukemia? Was your child with disability or your loved one denied by the Social Security Administration?

You or your loved one may plan on appealing the denial by the Social Security Administration. If this is what you decide to do, here is something for you to think about.

You will need a disability attorney like the one you will find at socialsecurityhome.com to help you in what can be a long and trying process. The reason this is true is because people who are represented by a disability lawyer are approved more often than those people without an attorney.

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Tags: Acute lymphoblastic leukemia, Bone marrow, Cancer, Conditions and Diseases, Get Social Security Disability Benefits, Leukemia, social security administration, Social Security Disability Benefits, Social Security Disability Benefits Application, White blood cell
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Angina Pectoris and Receiving Social Security Disability

Friday, November 6th, 2009

When you say the word, “angina” most people immediately think of pain in the chest. They think of pain related to the heart. Angina, however, can refer to other parts of your body.

There are also other types of angina that are not directly related to your heart. However, when you say the word most people think of chest pain and the heart.

The angina related to your heart is angina pectoris, or most commonly referred to just as angina. Angina is a Latin word that refers to a painful constriction or tightness somewhere in your body. Angina pectoris is pain in your chest that results from ischemia (a lack of blood and hence oxygen supply) of your heart muscle due to spasm or obstruction of your coronary arteries (the heart’s blood vessels).

People commonly equate the severity of angina pectoris with the risk of a fatal heart attack. There is a weak relationship between severity of pain and the degree of oxygen deprivation in your heart muscle. In other words, you can have severe angina pectoris with little or no risk of a heart attack. On the other hand, you can have little or no angina pectoris and have a heart attack.

Angina pectoris is classified in two ways. It is classified as stable or unstable angina.

Unstable angina pectoris is usually grouped with similar medical conditions like acute coronary syndrome pain. Some of the ways that unstable angina pectoris can affect you are:

Pain that gets worse and worse, which is called, “crescendo” angina
Sudden-onset angina while resting
Pain that lasts for more than 15 minutes are symptoms of unstable angina.

These symptoms require immediate medical attention, and are usually treated like a presumed heart attack.

Stable angina pectoris refers to the more common understanding of angina related to a lack of blood supply and oxygen of your heart muscle. Some of its effects are:

Chest discomfort
Tightness
Heaviness
Pressure
Burning, squeezing
Choking Sensation
Pain in jaw, back, shoulders, arms or neck.

These effects are usually brought on by some activity (running, walking, etc) with minimal or non-existent symptoms at rest. These indications usually go away several minutes following stopping the precipitating activities and begin again when activity resumes.

You may be unable to work because of angina pectoris. It is important to remember that whatever underlying condition is causing your angina pectoris is the real cause of your disability. Angina pectoris is the main symptom that you are experiencing.

You may need help. You may need financial help.

Have you applied for Social Security disability benefits from the Social Security Administration and been denied? If you plan on appealing the denial, remember this. People who are represented by a caring disability attorney are approved more often than those people without a lawyer.

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Tags: Acute coronary syndrome, Angina pectoris, Blood vessel, Conditions and Diseases, heart disease, Myocardial infarction, social security administration
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AIDS-Related Lymphoma and Disability

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Your lymph system is composed of thin tubes that branch, like blood vessels, into all parts of your body. These lymph vessels carry lymph. Lymph is a colorless, watery fluid that contains white blood cells that are called lymphocytes. Along this network of vessels are groups of little, bean-shaped organs called lymph nodes. Clusters of these lymph nodes store and make infection-fighting cells.

AIDS-related lymphoma is a disease in which malignant (cancer) cells develop in the lymph system of patients who have AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome). AIDS is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV attacks and weakens your immune system. This allows infections and other diseases to invade your body. When this happens, because of AIDS, your immune system is not able to fight against them.

Many parts of your body have lymph tissue. Because of this, AIDS-related lymphoma can spread to almost any of your body’s tissues or organs. This includes your spleen, brain, liver or bone marrow (spongy tissue inside the large bones of your body that produces blood cells).

No one knows for sure what causes cancer. Researchers think that cancer is caused by your heredity and cancer causing agents in the environment. What is known is that people with AIDS are at a much greater risk for having this form of lymphoma than people who do not have AIDS.

There are several signs and symptoms that you may experience with AIDS-related lymphoma. However, other medical conditions may cause these same signs and symptoms. Your doctor is the one who can determine if they are being caused by AIDS-related lymphoma. Some of these signs and symptoms are:

Night sweats
A feeling of fullness below your ribs
Unexplained fever
Unexplained weight loss
Swollen, painless lymph nodes in your groin, chest, neck or underarm
Itchy skin
Tiredness.

AIDS-related lymphoma usually grows faster than lymphoma that is not related to AIDS. It also spreads outside of your lymph nodes to other parts of your body more often.

You or a loved one may have AIDS-related lymphoma. This disease may be the reason that you or your loved one is disabled and cannot work.

If this is your situation, you may need assistance. You may need financial help.

Have you or your loved one applied for that financial assistance by applying for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits from the Social Security Administration because of the disability caused by AIDS-related lymphoma? If you or your loved one was denied and you plan on appealing the denial, here is something that you may not know.

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Tags: AIDS, Cancer, Conditions and Diseases, HIV, social security administration, White blood cell
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Alzheimer’s and Receiving Social Security Disability Benefits

Monday, October 19th, 2009

Alzheimer’s disease (AD), which is also known simply as Alzheimer’s, is a neurodegenerative disease. Neurodegenerative disease is a condition in which cells of the brain and spinal cord are lost.

The most common form of Alzheimer’s is found in people above the age of 65. Over 24 million people worldwide suffer from dementia caused by Alzheimer’s. Over 4.5 million people have Alzheimer’s in America.

The first easy to observe symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease are usually short-term memory loss and visual-spatial confusion. In the early stage of the disease, people have a tendency to become less spontaneous or energetic, though changes in their behavior may go unnoticed even by the person’s immediate family.

Other behavioral changes are outbursts of violence in people who have no previous history of such behavior. This stage of the disease has also been called mild cognitive impairment. This is when the patient does not meet the criteria for a diagnosis of dementia.

These beginning symptoms progress from seemingly simple and often fluctuating forgetfulness and difficulty navigating oneself in space, such as in a traffic lane while driving. They lead to a more pervasive loss of short-term memory and difficulty orienting through familiar areas like a person’s neighborhood.

As the disease progresses to the middle stage, people may still be able to perform activities independently (such as using the bathroom), but they may need help with more complicated activities (such as paying bills). As the disease advances, there is a loss of well-known skills as well as recognition of objects and people.

In the advanced stage of Alzheimer’s, deterioration of musculature and mobility, becoming bedfast, inability to feed oneself and helplessness will be seen if death from some external cause such as pneumonia or heart attack does not prevent this. Language becomes severely disorganized, and then is gone. People will not be able to perform even simple tasks independently and will require constant supervision.

If this describes a parent or loved one, you may have applied for financial help on their behalf from the Social Security Administration for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits because of the disability caused by Alzheimer’s. Was your parent or loved one denied by the Social Security Administration?

If so, you may be trying to figure out what to do next? What recourse do you have?

One thing that you can do is to appeal the denial by the Social Security Administration. If this is what you decide to do on behalf of your parent or loved one, consider this.

Your parent or loved one will need the advice and representation of a disability lawyer like the one you will find at socialsecurityhome.com in this procedure. The reason for this is because people who are represented by a disability attorney are approved more often than those people who are without a lawyer.

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Tags: Alzheimer's disease, Conditions and Diseases, Dementia, Mild cognitive impairment, Neurological Disorders, social security administration
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Stomach Cancer and Receiving Social Security Disability

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

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Stomach cancer is cancer that begins in your stomach. If it spreads to other organs it is still called stomach cancer. For example, if stomach cancer spreads to your liver, the cancer cells in your liver are not referred to as liver cancer, but metastatic stomach cancer. It is treated as stomach cancer not liver cancer. This is how cancer is designated. It is called by where it begins in your body.

In order to better understand stomach cancer, you need to better understand cancer. Cancer begins in your cells. These are the building blocks of your body.

When things are working properly, your body produces new cells, as you need them, replacing old cells that die. Sometimes this process does not work right. New cells develop even when you do not need them, and old cells do not die when they should.

These extra cells may form a mass called a tumor. Tumors can be benign or malignant. Benign tumors are not cancer. Malignant ones are cancer.

Cancer is not one disease but a group of diseases. Cells that are aggressive (they grow and divide without respect to normal limits), invasive (they invade and destroy adjacent tissue) and sometimes metastatic (they spread to other parts of the body) characterize these diseases. It is called stomach cancer when this process begins in your stomach.

One of the problems and dangers of stomach cancer is that it is often asymptomatic or causes only nonspecific signs and symptoms in the early stages. By the time there are signs and symptoms; stomach cancer has usually spread (metastasized) to other parts of your body.

If there are effects in the early stages of this disease, they are usually indigestion, heartburn or a loss of appetite, especially for meat. Some of the effects caused by stomach cancer in the later stages are:

Diarrhea or constipation
Weight loss
Difficulty in swallowing (dysphagia)
Nausea and vomiting
Weakness and fatigue
Bleeding, as in having blood in your stool or vomiting blood
Abdominal pain or discomfort in your upper abdomen
Stomach bloating after meals.

You or a loved one may have stomach cancer. This may be the cause of your disability.

Do you or your loved one need help because of this disability? Do you need financial help?

Have you or your loved one applied for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits from the Social Security Administration because of the disability caused by stomach cancer? Were you or your loved one denied?

If you or your loved one decides to appeal the denial by the Social Security Administration, remember this. People who are represented by a reliable disability attorney like the one at socialsecurityhome.com are approved more often than people who are without a lawyer.

Do not wait. This is something that could affect you or your loved one for the rest of your life. Contact the reputable disability attorney at socialsecurityhome.com, today.

Tags: Cancer, Conditions and Diseases, Metastasis, social security administration, Stomach cancer
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Ulcerative Colitis and Receiving Social Security Disability

Monday, September 21st, 2009

Ulcerative colitis is a form of inflammatory bowel disease. Ulcerative colitis is also a type of colitis. Ulcerative colitis is a disease of your intestine, specifically your large intestine or colon that includes characteristic ulcers or open sores in your colon.

You or a loved one may have ulcerative colitis. This disease may be the cause of your disability.

If this is the case, you or your loved one may need help. You may need financial assistance.

Have you or your loved one applied for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits from the Social Security Administration because of the disability caused by ulcerative colitis? Were you or your loved one denied?

You or your loved one may decide to appeal the denial by the Social Security Administration. If you decide to do this, here is something to keep in mind.

You or your loved one is going to need the help and representation of a reputable disability lawyer like the one you will find at socialsecurityhome.com in what can be a long and arduous process. The reason why this is true is because people who are represented by a reliable disability attorney are approved more often than those people who are without a lawyer.

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Ulceration colitis is a rare disease. About one person in 10,000 gets ulcerative colitis in North America. It is found more often in the northern areas of North America.

Ulcerative colitis causes chronic inflammation of your digestive tract. It is characterized by diarrhea and abdominal pain. Like Crohn’s disease, which is another inflammatory bowel disease, ulcerative colitis can be a cause of disability. It can sometimes result in life-threatening complications.

The most serious complication of ulcerative colitis is toxic megacolon. This is when your colon becomes paralyzed so that you cannot pass gas or have a bowel movement.

Other complications include liver disease, perforated colon, inflammation of your eyes, skin and joints and severe dehydration. Although ulcerative colitis is usually not fatal, there can be serious consequences.

The signs and symptoms of ulcerative colitis vary widely according to the extent of the disease and the intensity of the inflammation. The extent of ulcerative colitis refers to how much of your colon and rectum are involved in the disease. Diarrhea, rectal bleeding and abdominal pain are some of the most common signs and symptoms of ulcerative colitis.

Ulcerative colitis is an intermittent disease. This means that there are periods of intense illness that alternate with periods of remission. Over time, however, the severity of ulcerative colitis usually remains the same.

If you have a continuing change in your bowel movements or any of the following signs and symptoms, you should see your doctor. These indications are:

Continuing periods of diarrhea that do not respond to over-the-counter medications.
Blood in your stool
An unexplained fever that lasts longer that a couple of days
Abdominal pain.

Tags: Conditions and Diseases, Digestive Disorders, Social Security Disability, Social Security Disability Benefits, Ulcerative colitis
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Spina Bifida and Receiving Social Security Disability

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

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Spina bifida comes from the Latin meaning “split or open spine”. Spina bifida is a developmental birth defect that involves the neural tube. Incomplete closure of the embryonic neural tube results in an incompletely formed spinal cord.

In addition to this, the vertebrae overlying the open portion of the spinal cord do not fully form and remain open and unfused. This allows the abnormal portion of the spinal cord to stick out through the opening in the bones. There may or may not be a fluid filled sac surrounding the open spinal cord.

Spina bifida is divided into three categories: spina bifida occulta, spina bifida cystica (myelomeningocele) and meningocele. The most common location of the malformations is the lumbar and sacral areas of the spinal cord.

Myelomeningocele is the most serious form of the disorder. It is the kind that leads to disability in most of the people affected with the conditions. The terms spina bifida and myelomeningocele are usually used interchangeably.

The effects of spina bifida vary depending on the type and extent of the spinal defect. Spina bifida occulta is the mildest form of the disorder. Usually, there are no symptoms with this type of spina bifida, and no treatment is needed. In fact, many people with this kind of spina bifida do not even know that they have it. However, some effects can show up later in life.

With spina bifida cystica (myelomeningocele) there is the obvious spinal deformity. The unfused portion of the spinal column allows the spinal cord to protrude through an opening in the overlying vertebrae. The meningeal membranes that cover the spinal cord may or may not form a sac enclosing the spinal elements. There is usually some degree of paralysis and loss of sensation below the level of the spinal cord defect.

There are other effects of spina bifida. These include:

Loss of sensation
Ambulatory problems
Loss of muscle tone
Deformities of the knees, feet or hips
Intense pain
Problems with bladder and bowel control
An abnormality of the cerebellum, that part of the brain that plays a significant role in integrating motor control and sensory perception.

Your child with disability may have spina bifida. This may be the cause of their disability.

If so, you may need assistance. You may need financial help.

Have you applied for financial assistance on behalf of your child with disability from the Social Security Administration for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits because of the disability caused by spina bifida? If your child with disability was denied and you plan to appeal the denial, remember this.

Your child with disability will need a knowledgeable disability attorney to represent them in the appeals procedure. This is because people who are represented by a good disability lawyer like the one at socialsecurityhome.com are approved more often than people without an attorney.

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Tags: Conditions and Diseases, Congenital disorder, Social Security Disability, Social Security Disability Benefits, Spina bifida, Spinal cord
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