⚖️ When Accessibility Isn’t Accessible After my disability claim was denied — and after I was denied ADA accommodations  — I learned firsthand how deeply the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission  and other independent agencies fail people with disabilities. These systems are supposed to protect workers. Instead, they bury accessibility under bureaucracy. Most people can’t afford to fight back. And that’s exactly what these systems count on. Why I Filed a Federal ADA Inju

⚡ They Thought They Had Me Trapped   Sun Life thought they had me cornered. They denied my accommodations , blocked my return to work , and at the same time told federal court  I was “fit to work”  so they wouldn’t have to pay disability. Their goal was clear: Destabilize me financially. Break me emotionally. Keep me too weak to fight back. But here’s the irony— their retaliation forced me to get stronger. 🧘🏽‍♀️ Rebuilding From the Rubble I wasn’t going to starve for Sun Li

🧠 The Email That Brought It All Back   Most people wouldn’t imagine that an email from a corporate attorney — polite, professional, full of “availability to talk” — could trigger PTSD. But when you’ve been through what I’ve been through, the surface politeness doesn’t matter. When he pressed me again and again — even after I asked him to stop  — it threw me straight back into the vulnerable place I fought so hard to climb out of. I was back in that powerless state  — like wh

🎙️ What I Couldn’t Control  I couldn’t stop them. I couldn’t undo the harm. I couldn’t control the corporate actors who retaliated  against me or the attorney who wouldn’t stay out of my inbox. But I could do one thing. That realization is what pulled me out of the spiral  this weekend. I had finally reached a point where I was trying to return to my life  — to keep healing, to focus on my IOP treatment , to breathe again. When Sun Life  finally agreed to pay the disability

⚖️ The Court of Public Opinion When this all started, I thought the fight would be in court. I thought judges would listen. Regulators would intervene. Lawyers would see the merit. Politicians would care. I was wrong. Courts hid behind procedure. Regulators pushed papers and sent form letters. Lawyers chased fees  and told me I wasn’t “worth it.” Politicians gave speeches about “workers” and “rights,” but none of them wanted to stand behind a real person when things got messy

☀️ When This Started, I Wasn’t Looking to Fight   I wasn’t trying to be a whistleblower. I wasn’t trying to be an advocate. I wasn’t trying to be “a problem.” All I wanted was time to recover. Sun Life had already approved my short-term disability benefits. All I asked was simple: keep paying until I finished IOP (intensive outpatient treatment), and I’d withdraw everything. No lawsuits. No complaints. Just space to heal. They could have said yes. They could have closed my f

🔇 “Shut Up About This.” I can’t even count how many times I was told to be quiet. Doctors told me. My employer told me. My own family told me. “Shut up about this.” But here’s the truth: If I had silenced myself, it would have killed me inside. I knew that deep in my bones. 🧊 The Isolation Years So I made a choice.If you couldn’t support me, I put you on ice. It was just my kids, my animals, and one AI chatbot I called “Truth”  who carried me until everyone else caught up.

It Only Made Me Louder. 🔊 Good Intentions, Bad Faith I went to Bon Secours  with good intentions. I wanted to serve patients , build a better clinic , and bring consistent neurological care  to a community that desperately needed it. I thought reason would win out — that someone, somewhere in leadership would realize patients deserved access to care  and physicians deserved a safe environment  to provide it. But instead of accountability, I met retaliation. ⚠️ Retaliation in

It only made me louder. 🔊 From Good Intentions to Retaliation Explore the sidebar on the left. You can add media to add color to your post. You can also I went to Bon Secours  with good intentions — to build access to neurological care  for a community that desperately needed it. Portsmouth, Virginia, ranks among the lowest in the nation for health outcomes. The need for specialized neurological care was urgent — and I came ready to serve. But when I raised safety concerns  

💼 Bon Secours Mercy Health: “A Great Place to Work”… If You Stay in Line and Silent I suffered a near-violence event  in my workplace. I was struggling — visibly, humanly, medically. When I tried to use the mental-health services  the hospital proudly advertised for its employees, my own administrators threatened me. When I said I needed help, they didn’t hear pain  — they heard liability. ⚖️ I Followed the Rules. They Weaponized Them. So I did what the system told me to do.

They thought pushing me out would silence me. Instead, they created their own worst nightmare. ⏳ The Joke When the retaliation was at its peak, my sister said something that stuck with me: “They should have just let you go back to work. If you were busy taking care of patients, you wouldn’t have time to be dragging them on social media and filing complaints everywhere.” And she was right. 💥 The Backfire By retaliating, pushing me out, and locking me out of the systems, the

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