If Wolfgang Molterer (56) from Hellmonsödt in Upper Austria wants to drink a glass of water, he has to lie down. Otherwise, the fluid will run straight out of his nose. Since he had tonsil cancer and had to have surgery four years ago, he no longer has a spatula. However, according to a PVA doctor, he is back at work.
After a tracheotomy, Molterer spent three months in the hospital with a nasogastric tube and had a gastric tube for two and a half years. He has scars on his wrist and hip because tissue was removed and transplanted there. Due to the operation, he has almost no teeth and his chronic gastritis makes him vomit constantly.
„I don’t understand the whole world anymore”
Molterer received rehabilitation money for four years. Now he was sent by the pension insurance company to a doctor specializing in the spine, who prescribed him fit for work again at the end of September. Molterer, who has received 1,400 euros so far, is desperate: “I don’t understand the whole world anymore. I don’t get it. I can lift a maximum of 15 kilos, otherwise I immediately get a cramp in my throat that goes up to my brain .”
The affected person is in constant therapy
The man from the Mühlviertel used to work in assembly and recently at Voest. He can’t imagine going back to work when needed, also because he’s in constant therapy. “I also told them that at the PVA. But there they said that I should simply register as an unemployed person or apply for emergency aid. But I want to retire early.”
The (abbreviated) statement from the PVA: “During the most recent follow-up study, a significant improvement in health status compared to the time of grant could be objectified. Although there are still health limitations, the course of the disease is currently stable. The performance capacity is certainly still considerably limited, but is again sufficient for light jobs in the general labor market.”
Source: Krone
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