Certifying after surgery

You cannot do the work related to trucking, one good low trailer forcing you to wind landing gear against 52000 pounds of vehicle will dislocate your sternum possibly pernamently.

You are in fact disabled properly. File a claim for SSdI income while you spend about a year off to see if you will have a body to work with or not.

 

If you are still smoking there is a very high risk of sternum not fusing. Surgeons often refuse elective surgery to smokers for this very reason. Like any business the doctor strives for a successful surgery. They don't want you returning as a result of failed services. Just like a mechanic does not want to see you back again and again for a same issue
Good luck

 

Ive been thinking about you and that sternum.

Is it worth it? The original surgery for fixing whatever is going on with the heart which is why they opened you up pretty good. Did they really fix it.

Do you know that you need a year of doing nothing but healing in your easy chair is your most important goal in life for that sternum. Your future depends on it.

 

i would go doctor shopping for one who would install a plate. Does not seem right that no solution has been offered for sternum.

 

There is nothing you and I can offer for a broken sternum. It's bone based. Sometimes a mesh or similar shop job will have to be installed and then wait a year while the bone tries to regenerates into a whole. I tell people who are considering major surgery that requires breaking the sternum to gain access, they will be down at least a year.

I know if they offered me that kind of work require my sternum to be broken, I'll decline. Im very useful where I am and frankly they will have to find another pathway in, probably along the large arteries via the side of the neck.