Very insightful comments, thanks. Yes, mow the front lawn in shorts and T-shirt —lookin’ good— then take five days to recover...out of sight. I know it well. Mow the back yard the next week. No, I’m not on disability: couldn’t work enough hours over my career to qualify.
you should be able to get disability- but you’ll only get minimum, which i think is around $700 a month or so because you didn’t get enough weeks in at high enough wage- that’s what they give to folks that are either disabled and have never worked, or those that work only a short time and get disabled on the job like from accident or disease or whatever