Hello everyone! Well, we made it past Monday! I hope you are all doing ok (for those of you who are pain sufferers, I pray that your pain is tolerable). I have another important question for you to answer. You all remember that I had to renew my driver’s license back on the 11th of Jan. I tried to do it online and answered a question incorrectly because I read it wrong and was trying to be honest. It said do you have any disabilities, conditions, medications that could affect your ability to drive. I answered yes, thinking I am being honest about my spinal cord injury. Well, I got this lady at the DMV who gave me a hard time and wouldn’t let me change the answer. My disability does not interfere with my driving ability unless it has to do with getting my wheelchair in the car, etc. She made me (for the first time ever…Ca never did this), to get a doctor’s certification. The doc I used was my primary care who is closer to home and not in Vegas. Well, he filled it out and answered all of the boxes that I was able to drive. The DMV and everyone else thought everything was filled out ok and I got my license renewed. The day my license came in the mail, so did a letter from Carson City asking me to surrender my license. The local DMV and everyone involved missed something that the doc wrote out and that was my ability to drive with my disability. He said no. He wrote this in on a second sheet. When we asked him to fix it, he said no. Well, I have an appointment at the end of the month to see my pain doctor in Vegas. I will have them do the paperwork because they have known me longer. Even though there is an appointment scheduled, I had to surrender (voluntarily) my driver’s license yesterday! I have never had an accident and 2 tickets in my life since I started driving at 16 years old. They would not wait until the end of the month when the forms hopefully will clear me to drive. If I feel medicated or unable to drive, I don’t. I just wanted to have it in case there was an emergency! Ass hats! This is a crock! Has this happened to any of you?
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in PA a friend turned 65 (not sure if licences were due for renewal or age triggered it) and had to have special exam & paperwork filled out by PCP to see if he would be able to physically and mentally be capable of driving and/or having a permit to carry a gun. he said depression was one of the questions asked of him, but he didn’t know how it figured into things since he never had it. then he received a letter in the mail from some government agency about a month later, he passed for both. i thought he might have been exaggerating until i heard a similar story in FL, now in CA too….scary scary!
What state is this? One person does not usually decide it is a group of people. My grandfather did this in New Jersey after he retired from being a psychiatrist. In NJ 30 years ago, they based the decision to allow or deny driving privileges on many medical factor and social factors. It was never one person, it was a team. This seems like a bad history lesson,