July 16, 2023
Keith and Kelly Page have been trying to get Social Security Disability benefits for Kelly since she suffered a brain aneurysm in 2016 and a stroke in 2017. An administrative law judge initially granted her benefits, then another judge took them away.
Disability nightmare: Applying for benefits can be long, difficult road for some ailing Americans
Kelly Page was a happy, hard-working North Buffalo woman when a brain aneurysm and a stroke rocked her world.
It was spring in 2016 when her family began to notice that Page, 41, was forgetting things.
She had trouble remembering life’s little details – like what time she was supposed to pick up her son from school, or something her boss had told her to do at the Amherst jewelry business where she worked as an administrative assistant.
Months later came painful headaches. An MRI exam revealed that she had suffered a brain aneurysm.
The neurologist advised her to have surgery to repair nerve damage in her brain.
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Doctors told her that her chances of having a stroke during the procedure were about 3%. But when she had the surgery on Aug. 2, 2017, she suffered a stroke.
“I went to see her in the hospital the next morning, and she didn’t know who I was,” recalled her husband, Keith Page. “After a few days, she recovered a lot of her memories … but really, she’s never been the same since.”
Two doctors advised Page that – because of the brain injuries – she was no longer capable of working. On Jan. 30, 2018, she applied for Social Security disability benefits.
She and her husband have been fighting with the federal government ever since.
– Dan Herbeck
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