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SH*T! I have no HIP!
« on: October 05, 2009, 03:24:04 PM »
~~and mistakenly thought Yvonne from the Insurance Co. was on my side, and sent an uncomplimentary email to her about the Assessment, the first in SIX months, done by the Occupational Therapist hired by the Insurance Co. to oversee and plan a course of action for my treatment.

Yvonne wrote to my lawyer and told him to tell me to cease and desist. He wrote to me and said I was feisty and thought this was amusing.

Then I replied to the Assessment and pointed out errors etc. I copied to my lawyer
This is one I missed on the first go around of seven errors/questionables. plus the reason I find her visits stressful = 7

-- to outing on September 25, 2009 consisting of lengthy appointment with Dr. Reimer (2.5 hours) followed by traveling approximately 8 blocks to attend to several errands.
~~ I missed your error in the above Date. I attended Dr. Reimer's office on September 24, 2009. Several = 2 errands: I specified my Bank and the Drug Store.

Then I copied this further error to my lawyer, as he had said he approved of my response to MJ, as perhaps now we can all get on the same track.

If I don't speak up for myself, her errors will go down on record as being the truth.

:idea: :idea: :idea:

I didn't speak up for myself as a child, which means I didn't know I could, or didn't know that I should, or didn't know how, or didn't know someone else was wrong

Therefore, so much ended up "on the record" as the 'truth', only for me to grow up with all those instances still stuck in my mind as being "done wrong by".
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Right now, after 2½ months of Physical Therapy; MJ has cut me off. Now my lawyer is in the fight for me to get it back. Lack of it will  just bring about a decline in progress already made

That's what started this 'complaint' to Insurance re MJ.

Love Izzy
Still hanging in and hanging on
« Last Edit: October 08, 2009, 11:43:17 AM by Izzy_*now* »
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« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2009, 05:54:01 PM »
Izzy,

Good to hear you are keeping up the good fight.

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I didn't speak up for myself as a child, which means I didn't know I could, or didn't know that I should, or didn't know how, or didn't know someone else was wrong

Bingo! How did you learn all the above? Where do you start, any suggestions?



Hope your pain has lessened over time. Wishing you continued healing.

Good job speaking up and setting the record strait!         seasons xo







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Re: I erred in comprehension~~ light bulber for the 'little' me.
« Reply #2 on: October 05, 2009, 09:14:26 PM »
Hi Seasons

Learn to speak up, that I needed to for my sake?

After I left the N, I determined why I had been vulnerable to one, and realized I had few boundaries and very little assertiveness. so I changed that whenever the occasion called for it.

The impact of this, though, did not arrive until the assertiveness was about my physical self! Either I speak up now when the therapist made a mistake, or her words go down as 'truth' in the claim I am filing against the driver, and if went 'several' places, not just two, it could be misconstrued that I brought something on myself/overdone it.

Learning how as a child, I don't think I was raised in any way to lead to this, but it comes to mind that we make our own choices and the earlier we can do that, with parental permission, and guidance, the easier it is to know what we want and to go for it.

I was called into the school re my daughter's skipping grade 7. I was not for that. When she and I talked about it I told her the pros and cons of skipping a grade, as I had suffered being 2 yrs. younger than the rest of my class. Her choice was to stay with her friends, her age group, not miss what might be taught in Grade 7, and I was happy about her choice and I never ever heard her say she regretted it!

In joining the string orchestra, it was her choice as to which instrument, and my choice as to whether I rented the instrument or bought it for her.

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Re: I erred in comprehension~~ light bulber for the 'little' me.
« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2009, 08:37:57 AM »
Just keep plugging away and asserting yourserlf, Izz.

You're good at detail and follow through.

Glad to hear your attorney approves of your advocating for yourself.

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Re: I erred in comprehension~~ light bulber for the 'little' me.
« Reply #4 on: October 06, 2009, 11:26:48 AM »
hi Mo2

In this case I had to wait for her to make a mistake in writing--- before I could prove her likely not listening to what I have answered to her questions, and 'generalizing' my replies. Verbally is one's word against the other's.

I knew reassessments were being made monthly but this is the first I have received. I wonder how the others read?

I am having 3 (I hope) x-rays tomorrow, thigh, knee and ankle of left leg.
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« Reply #5 on: October 06, 2009, 04:02:54 PM »
I know it's a challenge to get ready for outings like that, Izz.

Take care of yourself and best wishes for the x rays.

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« Reply #6 on: October 06, 2009, 11:59:30 PM »
Thanks Mo2

Now suddenly it will be slacks I wear, as the mornings are nippy, and cold and pain brings on tremors (had them the past 2 mornings,,,gnashing teeth, while one side of my lip 'snarls' up, then down, and the arm shakes, and hands....some sight to get on a Handidart van.

This Dr. is a fill-in so I hope to convince her, with what is transpiring, that I require these 3 x-rays. I really need to see the injury site and the knee and ankle to understand what's going on inside.

I've set my alarm even.
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Re: I erred in comprehension~~ light bulber for the 'little' me.
« Reply #7 on: October 07, 2009, 04:59:44 PM »

Hi Izzy,

How are you?  Hope all the x-rays were taken that you needed.   
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Re: I erred in comprehension~ lightbulb for the me. SH*T... No hip!!!!!!!
« Reply #8 on: October 07, 2009, 06:54:20 PM »
hi seasons
and all!...while I sit here typing like nothing happened! I guess it comes with age and stuff!

Yes a hip x-ray and a knee x-ray. I have no hip, basically, as I have a non-union which means a space between the shaft and the ball of the femur. I cannot read x-rays but the shaft was 'white' on the x-ray (I saw before Dr. Leung, {Female} came back.) I had to ask, "Where is the ball?" and there it was, a little malnourished looking gray circle sitting in the curve of the shaft. The knee aches/pains because the bottom (distal end) of femur is working in the socket but has no attachment at the top (proximal end)---just wants to wander through my nerves and muscles.

It will take exten$ive surgery to rejoin, but if the ball is dead? ..That's what is looked like to me, and I have been reading about bone necrosis.

Holy SH*T! I'm dying "A piece at a time", like Johnny Cash smuggling out a car in that song!

She said it doesn't matter about trying to therapize my external rotation of my knee. It will always be that way. All this therapy for internal rotation is good but not an answer with what we're working with. I can do whatever *I* want that makes ME comfortable, doesn't matter if I sit crooked or straight or what. This is it! I was sent for a blood test in case of an infection (which had crossed my mind when the pain increased) and am to call on Monday to find out! And I told her I wanted nothng higher than Tylenol Extra Strength for pain, but there could be an anitibiotic again! (Yes Mo2---take probiotics--if)

(I ought to put in here that I have been told two different ways, each by a separate person, on how I ought to sit, as well as how to place, and not place, my leg when in bed. They don't know I don't have a hip!)

The volunteers, many, as this hospital is one bigt B*tch of a thing, under expansion, (How did I ever escape for as long as I did last April?) were both women and women talk. They both have areas and one took me to the next area, on the way to the laboratory and each asked if this was my 'chair. I said "Yes" and they said if I didn't have it marked I had better, as the hospital was short of chairs and any running loose are grabbed........AHA! So the hospital DID steal my damaged 'chair!. which....... took so long for me to get a loaner as promised if I turned over the damaged 'chair. No Could do! So used an 11 year old chair of mine for long enough to infect my incision from the tire, then came the loaner and I was already infected from a "dirty tire" and the infection is what rendered the titantium useless, so it had to be removed and it was the titanium that would have closed the gap for proper healing--Who is at Fault?

I say the Insurance Comapny, on driver's behalf, for not bringing me a loaner chair when I needed it, while they awaited return of my damaged chair, that while I was out of it, disappeared, and I said time and again that I saw to it that it was brought into Emergency with me. Then when it was all clear to me I told the rep, before leaving the hospital. I've written my lawyer already and I'll bet he's  furious, but will fight even harder with this information when he receives the Dr.'s records.
....and so it goes....the continuing story of a wronged woman, *weep weep* for another conversation piece in my dysfunctional family!

xx
Izzy

*Now I will search about infections rendering titanium useless.*

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Re: SH*T! I have no HIP!
« Reply #9 on: October 08, 2009, 01:54:20 PM »
That must've been a real shock, Izzy, seeing that Xray.

(I'd feel the same if they x-rayed my brain and saw the gaps...)

I'm sorry, sweetie. You are such a champion.

If the pain wasn't such an issue, it might be easier to deal with yes-bone no-bone.

I am awed by your bravery to battle bureaucrats as smartly and effectively as you have been,
all the while hurting so much.

((((((((Izz))))))))), gently, you old hippie...

love,
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Re: SH*T! I have no HIP!
« Reply #10 on: October 08, 2009, 02:49:41 PM »
Thank you Hops

Old hippie?

What about old hipless hippie?

When did I learn this....? That whatever happens, happens and cannot be taken back!

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Re: SH*T! I have no HIP!
« Reply #11 on: October 08, 2009, 03:01:02 PM »
Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch ... that sounds so painful. Hang in there ... we are pulling for you!

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Re: SH*T! I have no HIP!
« Reply #12 on: October 08, 2009, 03:17:52 PM »
Well......

something was causing all that pain.

I'm surprised it took them this damned long to X-ray and explain all this to you.

And btw..... I think it's the driver's insurance company at fault too.

You should have had a loaner, for goodness sakes!

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« Reply #13 on: October 08, 2009, 10:22:58 PM »
Hi HOP and Mo2

Since the pain had reduced in intensity twice = 3 levels, then went back up, I thought it was something I had done that day, as it was different, then I thought infection, but how?
So I called the Dr. after asking Mary Jo's permission--and now, but not at first, it was my job, so did and arranged my transporation. ($2.00 per trip on Handidart.)

Last visit with male Ortho, he said no more visits needed, so I was glad he was away and a lady Ortho filled in. She was very clear. Previous x-rays did not show the 'space', so I'm glad I checked out the pain. Actually I would have wanted a monthly x-ray if I could have but the previous showed the new bone, but NOT the clarity of the end of the shaft, so 'alone'.

I don't need referrals if I get in before 6 months passes from last visit, so will keep on his case!

This would have been horrible for a walkie, when leg bone not connected the hip bone (there goes 'Dem bones dem Bones dem dry Bones' in my head) I cannot imagine being it's over 40 years since I walked, still for me I cannot be brought back, by therapy to my previous state, and the therpist will now understand why my knee rotates outward when leg is at rest, and there aus no connection to keep it rotated inward. This'll change a lot--but I don't fully know yet.


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« Reply #14 on: October 09, 2009, 09:31:57 AM »




Hi Iz,

Sending my love and repeating myself, you're the best!

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