Yesterday morning I managed to clear off front side walk, as well as the front driveway.  Susan and I then went into the big city to see Barb, at the airport, until her departure time.  Upon our return home, I finished with the remainder of the snow clearing.  Yes, it had finally stopped snowing.  The remainder of our day was mostly spent relaxing, and starting on some plans for the next week.  We have to try and make things work with Susan's schedule.  Over the next two weeks we would like to concentrate on getting the bathroom ready for Christmas!
   We received my results from my appeal from WCB. In there initial decision for my removal from benefits, they said I was ready to return to my pre injury job!  Seizure like symptoms, were not linked to a concussion, therefore I was fit to return to work.  I told them I was off work, because of head trauma (headaches) post traumatic confusion, not seizures.  My licence had been suspended because of a mis diagnosis, and I was going through testing to eliminate seizure disorder.  In their appeal decision, they now have have disregarded their original decision, why they had cancelled my benefits.  They have now gone off in another direction entirely, trying to wear me down.  They now say, I do not have a seizure disorder, (I have a one month wait for the definitive test) therefore I can return to work.  Still forgetting I am off work because I cannot handle the pain from the headaches!  They have based there decision on knowledge they had before, but now have used a different interpretation.  In fact they used exactly the opposite interpretation, than they had before to remove me from benefits.  No one to date at WCB has addressed the constant headaches, ringing in my ears, the fact the neurologist that wrote SGI, had my commercial licence suspended (which includes all driving privileges).  Which I find out now, was probably an early symptom to post traumatic concussion, and then an ongoing side effect to the drugs I was put on to control my headache pain.  He (WCB neurologist, consultant) also concluded with the constant headaches that I would not be able to go back to my pre employment job and I should be a suitable candidate for retraining.  I am beginning to wonder if he wrote this, because he felt somewhat guilty to the fact that he had to write SGI about my licence without all the facts before him?  The failings of our bureaucracy!  Why did WCB choose to ignore this?  Is it because I am getting to old and not worth investing money and resources in retraining?
  Originally when Susan and I started this process of appeal, I was hoping that I could get some retraining and get on with our lives, possibly get WCB to pay for the extreme expense of the Botox treatments.  Now, it's just a matter of getting my story out there so others can see how the system is failing in it's mandate, as I see it!  Where the cracks are, 'BEWARE'.  I do not want this to happen to you or any one else.  You can be the judge.  This is my story, so starting tomorrow, we shall go back to that fateful day!  So I will try to stay true to myself, tell my story from our day to day to day notes.  All this as we slowly move on at Building the Simple life.............................