Why My Mom Needed Social Security Disability

When I was 18 months old, I nearly died from pneumonia. I don’t remember it, but I do still live with asthma that I was diagnosed with during that prolonged hospital stay. My parents took turns staying with me in the hospital; one would go to work while the other slept with me, then they would reverse shifts.

Growing up with asthma, I stayed home a fair amount of days as a sick child. I don’t remember my Mom being the person to stay home with me, but I do remember my Dad doing so. When my Dad couldn’t take the time, my Grandmother came over and kept watch over me, introducing me to “The Price is Right” and coffee.

My Mom never stayed home with me, because work was important. As a woman in the emerging telecommunications field, I think she often felt the pressure not to bring typical “woman’s” problems into the office, unless absolutely necessary. She cared about her work and her job, having been employed by what was then called Southwestern Bell, now AT&T, since she was a telephone operator at 16. It was that job that gave her the freedom to leave an abusive husband with her first child, so maintaining that independence was always incredibly important to her.

Decades after first becoming a telephone operator, she retired from the Southwestern Bell as it was making the switch to AT&T and began to teach other people all across the country how to work a 5ESS machine. Tropical Storm Allison’s devastating affects on my Grandmother, my Mom’s mother, the same one that gave me my first cup of coffee, cut this career path short. My Mom, trapped in Boston as Houston was deluged with water, realized very quickly she didn’t want to travel as much as her job demanded.

She took a job with a B2B company, one of those emerging companies that came through once the telecommunications industry was deregulated. In short order she went from being highly regarded in her field, to being laid off, a casualty of a rapidly changing field moving to Voice over IP and cellular technologies.

It was a shock to her system. She was in her 50s and had never been unemployed. I spent days with my Mom helping her get her resume out online — all a change from someone requesting she provide them with her resume because they were attempting to recruit her for another position. We sat…

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