Question
I was paralyzed due to damage to my upper neck area (around the 3rd disc) almost 30 years ago in HS when someone playfully knocked me in the face - PT & a neck brace for a year.

Then I was in a car accident 12 years ago that messed up my pelvis - knicked the outer right bone, I went through PT for 6 months.  In 2005 I was dx with severe Endometriosis and Adenomyosis, which caused me to be in extreme pain and faint from the blood loss, I had surgery and I felt better until I started having heart problems in my electrical system in 2007.

In short, my electrical system in my heart shut down and caused blood & oxygen loss throughout my body and left me with nerve damage to where I burn my hands often cooking because I can't feel parts of my hands or I can't walk due to numbness or I trip and fall because of my left leg.  

I had 50,000 PVC's which caused heart muscle damage (cardiomyopathy) to where I can't even walk to shop or do anything I want to do and worsened over the past time. I developed moderate Pulmonary Hypertension and my left ventricle pressures are in the heart failure range (34) but I haven't been dx with HF yet, and I suffer shortness of breath and have since 2004, chest pain and faint with exertion.  

On top of all of this, I've fainted since I was 9 and had a pacemaker/defibrillator implanted at age 42 back in 2009 because of sudden cardiac arrest and still faint and have severe dizziness due to neurologic problems.

Since surgery, my back, pelvic region and legs have given me so many problems that it's excruciating most of the time.  My pain stays moderate and spikes to severe levels often day/night.  My pcp sent me to a neurologist, who thought I had Auto Immune issues on top of neuropathy and possible DDD around my L5 & S1, due to numbness, tingling & spasms in my LE's and L hand.   

Now, I can't sit, stand or lay down for very long and have to change what I'm doing often which is aggravating and I'm not taking any type of meds right now, not sure I can with heart problems (electrical) and a pacemaker/ICD.  It's getting worse quickly to where it hurts to even walk around my house and seems to have spread to my outer hip area and the bones in my legs, hips and back hurt "inside".

On 12/2/2004 my xrays showed Changes of Osteitis pubis with some sclerosis identified in both side of pubic symphsis, so my pcp did a CT 12/27/2004 Sclerotic changes seen on both sides of the symphysis pubis, which has the appearance of post partum symphyseal changes (youngest child was 2 1/2)
On 7/26/2009 CTA & Xrays - showed Degenerative changes in the thoracic spine; vascular crowding and cardiac enlargement; Right Hemidiaphragm slightly elevated.

I don't know if my whole spine is degenerating now because of the damage I've sustained, but the changes in my CT/Xrays seem to show that I am. I've gained weight (morbid obesity) and can't exercise due other health problems  and have moderate obstructive sleep apnea and can't sleep more than an hour or two at a time.

I didn't have insurance for a year and just started new plan in 2011, so I'm going back to my pcp and get more tests done.

I've been a secretary since I was 17 and I've worked for my husband's company since 2001.  I filed SSDI for my heart problems, but they denied me because I could think for myself and could keep a check book, which was confusing to me.  What used to take me 10 min, now takes me an hour and writing is very difficult - I often have to copy & paste typing or it may take me days to complete 1 paper instead of an hour like before.

Do you think this is enough for ssdi? any tips/suggestions?

Answer
The first thing I would ask you is if you have all of this documented. If the answer is yes , then I would get all of it together and put it together by the year of occurrence. The next thing would do is get a consultation with a lawyer who specializes in SSDI cases. From what you have presented to me I would find it hard that you could functionally do your job. What that means is for a standard secretary job there is allot of sitting, typing, filing. The secretary that works for my department has to walk to different departments to file and or communicate. I am not sure there is a reasonable accommodation in your case. A lawyer who does SSDI will have medical personal aboard to do evaluations to get a clear idea of the existing problems and how they affect your ability to work. This would be the way to go in my eyes.

Hopefully this helps!

John