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Update from.....Izzy
Izzy_*now*:
Thank you twoapenny,
I appreciate your good wishes. I ask only for "just compensation" and should anything go wrong, I will forever, never, believe in Justice.
2 weeks. The end is nigh!
xx
Iz
lighter:
I'm sorry, Izz.....
did you write IBC will have to pay all your attorney/court fees? All your expenses? To do with fighting this suit?
That you won't have to fight to have those costs considered by the court?
It certainly makes it more likely they'll settle.
I'm very glad you believe in your attorney, and think he's doing a good job.
Good luck!
Lighter
Izzy_*now*:
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Not my attorney's fees. He takes one-third of the settlement amount---yet on top of that are the Taxable Expenses, Costs and Disbursements which are paid by ICBC, as well as the Court Costs.
I really hope the Judge has a better idea of what life is like for a partial paraplegic. I sense that the Specialists that ICBC hired, except for one, the Physiatrist, are just not familiar with the situation.
But I will grant you that my lawyer (needed to) has been learning plenty about anatomy, and when it's been interfered with, in comparison to a regular healthy body. When he asks for a report from me on something (i.e. the "history of my smoking") I throw in a few tidbits, believing them to be of relevance, and sure enough, sometimes one or two of them show up when he's "hitting back" in a response to ICBC lawyer.
I've had tension headaches building, but Karla's massages have helped. I will have pain for life, sleep disturbances, tremors, a useless leg 1½" shorter than the other that really throws off my balance, i.e., the femoral head that was thrown away is normally attached to the hip. With no hip I require a special w/c cushion. but in bed if I lie on my left (no hip) side I feel like a "weeble-wobble but it won't fall down". I just "roll" out of position, so have to prop myself in pace with a pillow---have 4 on the go, in bed with me. All that and more cannot be disproven by Defense.
The main issue is Future Care. I want Karla and therapy indefinitely, or I atrophy/contract, the pain will worsen without stretches. and there is no way I can move around on my own as I used to before the 2009 accident.
Lawyer plans on a video---it would show some difficulty putting the chair into the car, getting through the laundry room door etc. trying to stand at the counter for leg stretches (with Karla on hand.) I believe, as he does, that to see me just sitting in the chair does not tell the whole story.
I sure will be glad when it's done signed sealed, delivered and the money is in the bank. .................and I have made a good forever friend in Karla. That is sure a bonus!
Love
Iz
lighter:
--- Quote from: Skits on April 02, 2013, 12:28:46 AM ---Highlight__ER
I really hope the Judge has a better idea of what life is like for a partial paraplegic. I sense that the Specialists that ICBC hired, except for one, the Physiatrist, are just not familiar with the situation.
Lawyer plans on a video---it would show some difficulty putting the chair into the car, getting through the laundry room door etc. trying to stand at the counter for leg stretches (with Karla on hand.) I believe, as he does, that to see me just sitting in the chair does not tell the whole story.
Love
Iz
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A pictures worth a thousand words, Izzy. I can imagine a short video that includes an entire day's ablutions.... perhaps with you explaining what life was life before the last accident. I'd include a short clip of the spot you were struck down, and speak about exactly how that went for you..... the part where you were put into a narrow chair bc they took your chair, and the bone not healing, and gtting lopped off and thrown into the garbage while the doctor marginalized you...... maybe a paragraph?
Not sure, but you'll do a very good job I'm sure.
Again, good luck.
Lighter
Izzy_*now*:
I thank my responders for whatever has been said, and I am thankful this is "almost" over. (There is still paperwork and a $ figure)
That is not the point, as if we really look at the picture, money is far beneath one's health.
I am still left with:
• pain, hard pain and burning pain which some nights keep me in a suspended stated of sleep and pain, for all night.
• tremors
• nightmares, which can "shoot the next day all to hell", or maybe just ½ of it
• nothing regarding my gnashing /damaged teeth, as 5 dentists saw nothing. I feel a misaligned jaw that could run a pain up my neck into a headache.***
• nothing regarding an MRI on the "pulled nerve in my upper back
• my person has changed, so that I live 2 ways. One was the old way and then there is a moaning , whining, "there's no end to it", b*tch.
• I have no interests, am bored, nothing to do, but am "trying very hard to click into something".
• the latter is because my life led me in every direction to have things to do, in my spare time, and I have done them all.
• The settlement covers all future care and the way I SAW it, and SEE it, differ upon settlement. i.e. if I live 13 more years, I pay $117,000 on therapy, or not. If not, I live those 13 years in atrophy, pain,contraction, full-time care of a ball of bone that isn't even me. If not, I kill myself, and allow those I know who are needy to put an inheritance to good use.
• other monies could mean the same or different things to the latter.
• as I've said, almost from day 1, my FOO is not worth being caregivers, as they were the ones who "wrecked my person" in the first place, as a little girl.
• I no longer believe in a "just" Godl
• I could have dragged this further to Court, next Monday, 15th, and been awarded, perhaps $1.00 less, than ICBC had offered and ended up paying expenses for both sides.
• I already had spent 3 months with tension headaches, that disappeared the moment I told my lawyer to settle.
• My lawyer said I did the right thing, but wouldn't he anyway?
• From last Friday to noon today, I just spent my time in bed. I feel so lost!
• No therapist can fix that!
• It wasn't money, it was the claim and interaction with other people that kept me going through the hardest. What a waste of space and time for 74 years, as I have never really been happy.
Oh how much I wish all the best for you on here. I really do!
My very Best!
Izzy ♥
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