It has been ten months since I left FMC Carswell. So today, when I received an official piece of mail from the facility, I was only joking when I said to Sporty, "maybe they are finally sending me back my social security card and birth certificate..." Well, lo and behold, I open the official envelope and what do I find inside? My birth certificate and social security card!!!
The last time I saw those two documents, they were sitting on my case worker's desk in an envelope sent by Survivor. I had seen them on the same desk, in the same pile three weeks earlier. Both times, I reminded her to put it in my folder, as I would need the documents for my release and halfway house. They never made it to my folder. I wonder where they have sat for the last ten months!?!?!? Did they ever make it off my case worker's desk prior to being sent home to me?
I was literally looking up all the details of having to get my new social security card just this last week. I was worried that I may need my birth certificate for my marriage license and I would have definitely need a replacement when I could finally replace my passport. I was lucky that I didn't need my social security card for my current job since I had already worked there in the past, but I wouldn't have been so lucky in the future.
I was told nonstop that I needed these two documents prior to my release. Survivor worked her butt off to get me the documents. She had to send them directly to my case worker. My case worker never did her job with them and I never actually needed them - that's not to say you wouldn't - just that I didn't - and now, 10 months later, I finally have them back. Well, if I'm going to get official mail from FMC Carswell, I'm glad it wasn't them telling me they have a room waiting for me or anything. I'm happy to have my paperwork back. At least they didn't claim to have "lost" it or anything. I guess I officially exist once again!
