We had a man in our Sunday School class who needed a heart transplant, couldn’t work even if he wanted to. Took him 3 tries to get on SSDI. Was on it 2 years before he could find a ‘match’. A year after the transplant when he was stable, he was back to work and off SSDI.
He was very fortunate in many ways. I knew one of the first kidney transplant patients in our state. He had to remain on it till he died. I know a person who has a severe heart condition. Can't be by-passed no more and the arteries are clogging around the heart ruling out transplant. This is from hereditary issues. The person has been told it's a matter of time. It took that person two years and a lawyer to get SSDI. To look at him and talk to him you'd think healthy as a horse. He's by no means healthy or able to do even minimal work. He can care for himself that's about it.
This is what some are not getting though. Just because a person can walk and talk and you can't see with your eyes a disability doesn't mean they don't have one..