I remember him saying in an interview he has a broken leg & had an operation to put pins to keep in place while healing so to speak. This sounded like a temporary disability situation, not a lifelong disability. What am I missing here?
Yesterday, Friday, my neighbor got a letter in the mail awarding him full disability.
He was serving in Afganistan. The truck he was riding in hit a bump and flipped over.
His ankle was broken in several areas and he had to have several (I think, four? maybe, not sure) surgeries to correct the ankle, including pins in the bones.
Sometime after the second surgery he filed for the disability.....PTS.
Neighbor claimed the roll-over of the truck caused his PTSD, not the broken ankle.
In any case, he got the disability.....two different incidences. The ankle was not involved in his disability claim. Just the emotional 'stress' from the truck rolling over....he couldn't sleep, eat, woke with night sweats, etc.
Although there is a slight limp when he's tired and has been walking a lot, he does all his own gardening, mowing, edging, building of a small retaining wall, you get the picture.
So maybe the Dad has two seperate disabilities......one, the leg. The other, who knows. ?