My update, 1 year, 3 months and 11 days after the car hit me!.. at least it wasn't a WMD!
My wonderful physical therapist began, for the second time with me, in January, this year. When the end of April was nigh, I had the feeling that the funding for her would be cut, and it was. I now have her on Contract with me, and I pay $600-$800.00/mo….to be added to my claim. …for reference, she was with me July, Aug and ½ Sept last year and was cut, as “I was able to do my own exercising”…what a Rip. I wasn’t even healed and that began after the 3rd surgery in November…. My lawyer came down hard on the Insurance Rep, as he has done any time he sees injustice!
Think of this: “Justice in an Inherent Right”.
The therapy strengthened my left thigh muscles in increments that offset the pain, until I finally realized that any ‘pain’ was due to internal pressure from my descending colon (forget the thread on bodily functions----Ha!) which is in the same area as was the removed ball of my femur. (Sure! No big deal. Take my body parts and toss into the garbage!) My days were alternatively spent ‘ridding pain’ then exercise, for Sunday through Friday, leaving me only ONE day to myself! My social life is nil!
The twitches and shakes that began immediately on the roadside, Mar 27/09, are still present. They are very disruptive, and when I finally had my car back on the road (May/10) I was better able to make and keep my appointments. I saw a Neurologist and his report, back to my doctor, after a back x-ray, plus a copy to me, stated that he had never seen this before so it was ‘voluntary’, not ‘pathological’! I am incensed!!! I am not a liar, and these twitches are from leg pain, i.e now moving my leg from one level to another, floor to bed, from ‘chair up and over into the tub, and from garage floor up and into the car..(so how is the leg connected to the face?....fair enough question!… let's investigate and get it into the Medical Journals.)...and shakes are only at home while sleeping, on my back and the pressure hits my 41 year old Harrington Rods in my back…. brought on by pain caused from the Insurance Co. Rep saying I needed a trapeze for sitting up and transferring to my ‘chair, left arm only, and back into bed, right arm only and, after a bit, the back and forth was like working a cork from a bottle,….POP!…went the top of my Rods and then the shakes….now how do I replicate that in a 15-20 minute Dr. visit.??? I cannot. It happens at home!
I went to a Walk-In Clinic to another M.D. and he saw what was happening and suggested a follow up with my Dr. and another referral to perhaps a Neurosurgeon, not just the Neurologist…. who told me he ‘doesn’t do spines’.
My M.D. and the Neurologist are damned Narcissists!!!!! They know it all and pay no attention to what I say is happening with my body! No one lives in it but me!
(How about BP CEO Hayward calling the US citizens, “small people”? )
My nightmares haven’t ceased over all this time and I’ve finally reached a point whereby my mind has been suffering, which I believe makes the nightmares continue.
My sister was here from Ontario, for 7 days and nights, in late April, did all the cooking, (unfortunately against to what my system was accustomed,) performed Reflexology and Reiki, and cleaned my apartment to the “T”….not allowed by the Insurance Co., i.e. windows and knick-knacks…. WOW it looked great, and…I can now do all my own stuff as before except for high and low reaching…which my therapist does (but I didn’t ask her to retrieve the dead body of the moth behind my china cabinet.)
Basic priority is ‘rid the pain’ and exercise…… then call all my doctors liars! I expect another 4-5-6 months of therapy, but she will tell me when I have plateaued, then the claim goes in, with FIVE strikes against the Insurance Co…..so I doubt they want this in Court, as it will be publicized….out of Court, the public doesn’t know about “their inhumanity to man“.
So this is my story and I’ll bet there are many more whereby the almighty buck is wor$hipped by the Corporations, without a thought to the ‘regular guy’.
My heart goes out to the clean-up people re the Oil Spill, who are volunteering their time, or paid, I don’t know, but.. their lives are already endangered and, just like the Exxon Valdez crews, will all die a premature death.
I realize that as a Canadian I ought to not be speaking against the USA, but all this time at home, doing nothing but research, makes my condition very small personally, but just as large as what lies in store for this earth, and we little people as a whole. Most news comes re USA and I am now ashamed to be a Canadian after all I have read--you know the Internet is the only place left for free speech and truth debates--certainly not Rupert Murdoch’s media.
With Israel and its Mother, the USA, eye-balling Iran, I fear WW III and I want my doctor to give me a cyanide capsule to bite when the big boom comes, as I feel so helpless!
WOW! I am losing it!…….for damned sure!
God Bless us All! and nuke only the Narcissists!
Izzy (Who is thinking of her daughter and grandchildren, who still have lives to live!)
