Medical Disqualification

Try not to worry about that and focus on your recuperation. A solution will reveal itself soon enough. Do relaxing things you enjoy and keep your stress levels down. It'll all work out.

 

I don't know the process or the time involved, but I have seen guys get it back for heart related reasons. Just had a guy, whose right arm was not functionable. He tugged it with the left arm and it would flop soon as he let go of it. He had his revoked and I don't think he will ever be able to get it unless he gets a automatic. I don't know how he shifted gears.

 

Check out a thread posted today called "Thought to handle stress" it could help your wandering mind. I have known several who had full blown heart attacks, finish their recup and get cleared for driving. Don't stress on the issue, concentrate on getting well...hell the diet might be the worst part of the whole ordeal!

 

No, shifting gears. Had to put him out of service. Put a lot of thought and consulted a few before I did. But driver had to take his left hand off the wheel and shift the gears, because the right hand/arm did nothing but hang. driver couldn't hold a pen, cup, door knob, nothing in the right hand.

 

Ok, let's be really straight forward and productive. Outside of the situation, we always like to tell people not to worry, and it really is good advice, but a little too simple for practical life I think. In fact it's probably a little insulting to tell a grown man not to worry. After all, only he knows his problems and responsibilities, what's coming due and the impact it will have on his life. It's easier for everyone else to just say "it'll work out" etc. In truth it usually does, so it's not terrible advice. You of course are left to say "But HOW?" When? Easy for you to say!

So here's the real thing. You're going to worry when you feel helpless and overwhelmed. The trick is to empower yourself. And this MUST be done. You have to switch into another mode. You can't lose yourself in work right now which is how we usually put worry off.

For instance, make your goal to find a minimum of 3 realistic back-up plans. You have time and you have the internet. You can kill worry with preparedness and all your eggs won't be in one basket. It can take hours to research a single back-up plan, for instance everything involved with going back to school from financial aid and grants, what you think you might want to do, what you're willing to do.. a certification of some sort to a degree. You may find yourself in a position that for the first time in your life you can make a better living with your mind than your body, to evolve to your circumstance.

You also may end up driving again. There's no real reason that won't happen. But think of all the jobs everyone you've ever known has had, weigh it against your circumstance, see if it is something you could consider, what it would take to get into it, what contacts you have that would help you along the way. Talk to anyone and everyone. Keep yourself BUSY and productive!

Throw one idea up against the wall and wait for it to stick if you want, but better to throw 100 up there.





"The problem of life is to change worry into
thinking and anxiety into creative action."
Harold B. Walker, from Think or Worry?


"Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due."
William R. Inge

"Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday." Author Unknown
"It is not work that kills, but worry."

What were you worried about this time last year?
Can't remember?"

"I’ve seen many troubles in my time,
only half of which ever came true."
Mark Twain

"If you are distressed by anything external,
the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it;
and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
Charles F. Kettering