Days 290 of medical review

Before I started reading these posts I was pretty confident of getting through on my initial application. Now I am getting anxious reading about how many people had to go through to the hearing. 290 days of medical review so far and as far as I know I don't have a case worker yet. I'll be 60 in March, so the wait might a actually be good in the long run. I've been in health care for 40 years. Mostly as an ER floor RN. I have broad based herniations throughout my cervical spine with arm and hand involvement. Also a large lumbar herniation causing sciatica. This waiting and not knowing how it will turn out is making me crazy.