How does one even get these handicapped tags?
I tore my achilles tendon and could barely hobble around for close to 2 years, bad limp for another 3 years and now I’m OK. I couldn’t get one, even when I could barely walk.
In Illinois, all it takes is a note from a doctor, saying that you need one and they are free.
I dont think its too difficult, esp. if you have legit problems
http://arthritis.about.com/od/driving/a/handicapparking.htm
You needed to go to a doctor for them to fill out the form. But some doctors are notoriously against giving them out, requiring their patients to "tough it out." After a major illness, where I was in the hospital for 2 months, requiring 8 trips to the operating room, it was another month after I was released before I could drive. But my GP refused to fill out a form until my physical therapist called and then would only give me one for 30 days, until she wrote a letter stating that I would need one for 6 months in order to help me recover, and that I might need one for a full year.
In the mean time, my rheumatologist has no problem with filling out the form for me every 6 months. I don't misuse it, I am actually disabled, walking in great pain with a cane.
Mark
Your doctor fills out a form and the DMV gives you the placard.
Sorry, your doctor didn’t volunteer that info.
Did you ask your doctor for a prescription for a temporary permit? That’s the procedure in Ohio. I asked my doctor a few months before I had back surgery. After 16 hours of back surgeries in July I no longer use the permit but it sure came in handy when I was in horrible pain.
My wife got one when she popped her achilles, the key is usually the doctor’s note.