What is a incomeplete Quadriplegic? I never heard of that. In another post, you said that you are a care giver, for your wife. You think that justifies you getting paid by the government to take care of a family member? Another sister-in-law was just diagnosed with stage four ovarian cancer; my wife and I are her caregivers; we work full time jobs and support her.
An incomplete quad basically means the damage did not result in full quadriplegia. A full quadriplegic basically has no movement from the neck down. Quadriplegic means all four limbs hit. In her case all four limbs were hit but she got back the use of her hands somewhat. No leg usage fully wheelchair dependent and unable to transfer from the chair to the bed and vice versa.
We're not certain what all happened. It was likely a combination of several factors. One being stress which weakened her immune system. Another is it is very likely being born in 1950 she had a very mild case of undetected Polio. The doctors think this because her limb measurements were typical to Polio damage. Yet another is a narrowing at C-5 & C-6 in her spinal cord. One last thing is the myelin {sp} was damaged. She spent three months in a hospital recovering and three months in a hospital in spinal rehab.
No what justifies my disability is I am in fact legally disabled. All of the doctors I have had since 1994 agree to that fact of the matter. So did the SSDI examiner. This happened to her in 85. I worked till 1994. I did have to take a year off in 1986 when she came home to care for her till family {her teenage kids and my parents} learned to help care for her. It was that and therapy and doctor trips and I had to do the lifting etc.
Isn’t it funny that “cva66snipe” answered your first question (medical problem) at great length, but failed to address your second question. Or even mention your caregiving of your family without govt. support.