Disability question

[Runningdawg]

4. You didn't say what state you were in

I think that might have some bearing on the process.

I can tell you here in OK it takes one or two lawyers, more doctors and about 3 years to be approved.
Once approved you start getting paid within the first 6 months, but the first 3-4 payments go directly to the lawyers and doctors. so you can count on seeing your money nearly 4 years after you start the process.
My friend S was an energetic man in his 50's when he suffered an enormous heart attack while behind the wheel. Doctors were amazed that either one didn't kill him. His first stay in the hospital after open heart surgery and numerous other surgeries to treat the injuries from the car wreck was around 30 days. His second stay because he had massive infections was longer. When the infection got to his sternum it turned to mush. They replace his sternum with titanium plates and screws. Then his kidneys failed, then his lungs collapsed, then another heart attack.....
After filing on his own the first 2 times, he got a lawyer, the lawyer filed 3 times an on the last he was granted disability.
His original injury was in the fall of 2011. He received his first disability payment in October of 2015.