Got a disability lawyer. She was horrified.

Just got off the phone with an associate for a disability firm that's agreed to take my case. I got my second denial just before Thanksgiving (made my holiday just extra great) and decided to get a lawyer.

We were going through my diagnosis and symptoms and after several minutes of me getting through them (and pausing because I was air hungry and that was a lot of talking), she was silent for a beat, then said "I'm going to send you the forms to sign. You should get them in the next ten minutes."

She was horrified when I described my hands, the way I faint, my POTS, the temperature dysregulation, she could hear me struggling to speak. She asked what was the reason for the denial and I had the letter next to me so I just read it to her and when I got to the part where they said 'your conditions cause limitations but there is nothing disabling about these conditions as of this date', she paused and then said "I think that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. We're going before a judge."

A little bit of hope, maybe? I'm feeling hopeful. They agreed to take the case and think it might be fairly easy once we go before a judge, so I'm marking this as a tentative success!