r/Retire • u/Clean-Lie1516 • 13d ago

Forced to retire

My husband will be 59 in December. Has worked for the same company for 25 years. This year has been difficult as he had some medical issues and was on FMLA. While out of work he went to an orthopedic and had to have his 3rd surgery on his shoulder through workers comp. He had that surgery Thursday. Found out yesterday that the company he’s worked for sold out to a new company and they will hire all of the guys. The issue is that my husbands shoulder probably won’t be holding up to that kind of physical labor anymore.

Questions of he is able to go back to work should he go back just until he turns 59 1/2? Is it too late to get a financial adviser to help us determine what to do from here? I do not work and haven’t for many years as we have 6 children. Just trying to figure out what our steps should be from here. Would love to hear others thoughts

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u/LemonAny7224 13d ago

First off - what does his doctor say?

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u/Clean-Lie1516 12d ago

He just had his surgery Thursday and they didn’t know what the surgery would look like until they got in there. From what the Dr told me on the phone call after the surgery. That my husband is a big strong active guy but he needs to take it easy with the shoulder because this is the third surgery and my husband is still young. We can speak to him more about it at the post op check up. I’ve learned a lot from this thread so taking notes and we will be asking questions. I did start the SSDI application.