Does it feel like the whole system is set up for you to fail? That’s because IT IS! Even more so if you are part of the indigenous population.
Lower Brule IHS intentionally withheld my medical records from Social Security from October 2017 when I first established care until June 2018 that clearly showed a period of rapid progression of my Small Fiber Neuropathy with Autonomic Dysfunction.
Kyrstin Reimann-Doris, PA, withheld vital medical records that substantiated my disability claim. In doing so, she was able to stereotype me with the long standing, deep seeded biases, prejudices, and preconceived notions about the indigenous peoples, which is evident in the findings of Lyle Olson, Admin Law Judge, SSA.
Like our ancestors, I was forced to be completely dependent on IHS to manage Small Fiber Neuropathy w/ Autonomic Dysfunction, a rare degenerative neurological condition that is hereditary in nature.
Kimm Schweitzer, CEO of Lower Brule IHS, helped Kyrstin falsify some of my mental health records. Those records are available if you click on the button below. In December 2020, ALL of my telehealth therapy was moved to Lower Brule IHS.
I was approved for SSDI, despite their best efforts, on February 7, 2024, after my second Disability Appeal Hearing! None of which would have been possible without the help of our Creator. Absolutely everything happens for a reason and heads us in the direction of the person God meant for us to be.
I know now that our Creator sent me here for a greater purpose. I never understood why my life had to be so harder than my siblings. Why was I born into a family where neither side really me while I my sister and brother grow up surrounded by family who loved them?
I was severely abused physically, mentally, emotionally, and sexually and neglected from a very young age throughout my entire life. How could a parent deliberately put their child in unsupervised situations with family members who were known pedophiles? How could you continue to put your child in situations where you “thought something like that was going on” when a cousin was molesting them? I was also sex trafficked as a young teen while living in this lady’s closet that I barely knew.
I have been raped, beaten so severely that I couldn’t return to work for two weeks, and almost chocked to death or suffocated by placing their hand over my mouth and nose more times that I could count.
All of the trials and tribulations I have faced throughout my life were to give me God’s armor so that I could fight for myself and my tribe. As bad as it has been for me these last seven years, I cannot even begin to imagine how badly Lower Brule Indian Health Services treats our members still living down there…
It is time for us to pick up our ancestors’ fight! They literally sacrificed EVERYTHING so that our race wasn’t wiped from the face of the earth so we would be here to fight for Mother Earth when she needs us most. I don’t know if my great-grandma Alice Medicine Bird was a medicine woman and a healer or if it’s even passed down through bloodlines, and I can’t even begin to explain any of this…but I guess that is what FAITH is. Believing in something you cannot see or feel.
I lost 6 years of my life fighting Lower Brule Indian Health Services and Social Security for disability benefits as my health continued to deteriorate at an alarming rate. Having absolutely NO income makes it impossible to attend your kids’ extracurricular activities. It also prevents you from fighting your ex-spouse for Parent Alienation or taking them to court for Contempt of Court for not enforcing Court Ordered Visitation. It may have caused irreparable damage to the relationship I have with my kids. Not having them in my life has left a deep, dark void inside me where my heart used to belong.
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