The size of your SSDI benefit checks depends on your prior income. Basically, the more you paid into the system, the more you will be able to draw out of it once you are declared disabled and awarded benefits. The average monthly benefit paid out for all disability recipients in November 2010 was $1,067.
Mastoiditis may occur as a complication of acute or chronic otitis media. Acute otitis media (AOM), an acute illness marked by the presence of middle ear fluid and inflammation of the mucosa that lines the middle ear space, is discussed separately. (See Acute otitis media in adults (suppurative and serous).)
affected than the other. Clinical signs can vary in the rate of onset andseverity. Ocular signs have been noted in 44% of all patients with mastica-tory muscle myositis, with exophthalmos noted in the acute phase becauseof swelling of the pterygoid muscles behind the eyes. 9 If severe enough,exophthalmos can result in stretching of the optic nerve and subsequentblindness.