Page 7 Disability Report: Daily Activities Joan Hopkins Davis Ref. No: L20637 muscular weakness and stiffness, nausea, dizziness and increased fatigue are moderate to severe on most days of the week. I am very light sensitive. At work, I got in trouble with a former director because I complained the lights were too bright. He threatened to terminate me if I said, "lights again." He told me maybe something was wrong with my eyes. I saw my eye doctor and he told me that my vision was the same. I did not know at the time it was due to a severe problem with my immune system. After he transferred to another position, my present director allowed me to turn down the lights in the room. I have to decrease the Vitamin D in my diet and drink a lot of water
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Doing any repetitive activity causes me increased numbness, weakness and severe pain. For example typing this report has taken me 10 days/nights to finish. I had to take frequent rest periods. I have started taking physical therapy and have been trying to do my exercises as prescribed when my pain is not severe. Page 9 Disability Report: Daily Activities Joan Hopkins Davis Ref. No: L20637 I tried to reach into the clothes hamper to put a towel into the washing machine last week and experienced increased dizziness, severe left shoulder and back pain and left leg weakness. I had to sit down in a chair in the washroom for about 10 minutes and use my cane and the wall to make it back to my bed. I stayed there for about 2 hours. My daughter finished washing the clothes when she came in from work. Also last week, I attempted to wash some dishes while sitting on a kitchen stool. I ran the water with dawn in the sink and I experience increased lightheadedness, fatigue, weakness in legs, severe pain in lower back, middle of back and left
Doing any repetitive activity causes me increased numbness, weakness and severe pain. For example typing this report has taken me 10 days/nights to finish. I had to take frequent rest periods. I have started taking physical therapy and have been trying to do my exercises as prescribed when my pain is not severe. Page 9 Disability Report: Daily Activities Joan Hopkins Davis Ref. No: L20637 I tried to reach into the clothes hamper to put a towel into the washing machine last week and experienced increased dizziness, severe left shoulder and back pain and left leg weakness. I had to sit down in a chair in the washroom for about 10 minutes and use my cane and the wall to make it back to my bed. I stayed there for about 2 hours. My daughter finished washing the clothes when she came in from work. Also last week, I attempted to wash some dishes while sitting on a kitchen stool. I ran the water with dawn in the sink and I experience increased lightheadedness, fatigue, weakness in legs, severe pain in lower back, middle of back and left