disability ins

I am an elementary school teacher, diagnosed w mm in Jan 06, was out of work completely for about a year--collecting full disability (60% of my salary) I went back to work part time a year ago (half time)and my mm is considered stable, but I too have osteoporosis with lots of holes in my bones from the myeloma, also have some, but not real serious, neuropathy in my feet , and I have been collecting partial disability payments (my disability insurance makes up the difference, so my employer pays me 50% for my part time work, and disability pays the other 10%) Although I felt my disability insurer began to push me toward full time employment, my oncologist was supportive and recommended just half time. Your situation is a bvit different, but it seems to me perfectly understandable that one can have stable disease, but cannot perform one's job because of the pain (does it affect your sleep? are you on pain meds that make you loopy?) and the danger to your bone health that certain types of work present. For me, I had had several broken ribs and many compression fractures of the spine, and there was no way that I was going to jeopardize my bone health in my job. I made a point of emphasizing the dangers of lifting, twisting, bending etc, and the disability folks didn't disagree. My brother, who is a lawyer, strongly recommended my getting a disability lawyer if it looked like they were going to challenge my benefits. It didn't come to that, but perhaps you should consider getting one. They would have run into this situation before.