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I too suffer with an invisible disability, I have neuropathy in my legs. What this is is when the nerves die and you have no feelings in whatever part of your body the nerves die in. No problem you say, no nerves, no feelings, no pain right. Wrong. You have chronic pain, very excruciating pain. I live with this pain day and night, I am 39 yrs old and have had this for the past 2 1/2 yrs. so since I was 36 1/2 I have been unable to work or to function normally. It is not only me who suffers though, my entire family suffers, my husband suffers watching me hurt daily, my children suffer due to the fact that unlike most mothers who's children are grown and who is now a grandmother, I cannot keep my grandchildren and spoil them as I should be able too. I suffer, hating my body's betrayal to me. I hate not being able to perform such a simple task as cooking dinner for myself and my husband without having to sit on a stool at the stove, or not being able to due simple household chores without having to stop constantly and sit down to let my legs rest. I hate not being able to make love with my husband, without having my legs go into muscle spasm's and begin jerking uncontrollably.

Most people who have neuropathy also have diabetes, I do not. I was a healthy normal woman until Dec. of 04 when I was taken to the hospital and told that I had this disease that I had never even heard of. I read up a lot on it during the next few months, and found out that along with diabetes causing this, that also a sudden trauma to the back can cause you to develop it. Well I had fallen out of the back of a delivery truck in June of 04 and landed on my back, I had this fall due to faulty equipment to the place I was making a delivery, no problem right just sue this company and make them pay for my pain and suffering. Well I tried that and contacted every attorney in my area and was told the same thing by them all. They would not even consider taking my case since the company I was referring to was the United States Post Office. I had been a sub contractor delivering the mail to local post offices in my area, and due to their lift not working properly was having to climb in and out of the back of my truck, and slipped and fell on a rainy afternoon. They would not even acknowledged their part in my injuries, yet had I been a customer walking inside the post office to but a 41 cent stamp who had slipped and fallen they would have been all over me offering to pay my medical expenses

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