So Desperate with time running out.....I actually called this Guy..... Yup....One Call That's All.... I was even embarrassed to admit this..... At least they were pleasant and said Mr Nugent's office needed at least 10 Months before the Statute of Limitations runs out to prepare a case..
Again what if you don't know you have a permanent disability 10 or 8 or 6 months ahead of time....
Are you suppose to file a suit in anticipation that you will never get better....
It's ridiculous....And totally in the favor of the Physicians.... Not the injured patient.
It was now getting closer and closer to my May Deadline......
I also spoke to Judge Hackett's Office of T.V. Fame....
I have to say the women I spoke to was lovely....tried to help by giving me ideas of what I could do to "secure my statute date" by filing myself with the help of Legal Aid...
She sounded clearly concerned which I was appreciative but again...
They were unable to help because there was not enough time left.....
No One Knew by now that my Foot was Progressively getting Worse.....
I always explained it to the Surgeon from Day 2 that my Toes felt as if they had dried glue on them...'The pain unbearable
After so many Months in casts and multiple surgeries I tired to be positive that perhaps they were all right about it taking a long time to recover after all I had well over 100 stitches in my foot and leg..
But I knew this was not going away....
I had all the Classic symptoms of RSD....altered feeling...stiffness....no feeling of hot just excess cold...cramps....in a foot that was frozen....a limp...hip pain from the limp....torn ligaments in my knees from abnormal gait.....sleepless nights with a claustrophobic feeling because my foot would not move.....So Of Course any person no matter how strong is going to be emotional...
RSD...is a Condition listed at the Website of
NORD
"National Organization of Rare Disorders"......
This is Not like "Fibromyalgia"
This is a Neurological Disorder caused by a single event like and accident or a surgery mistake
That damages nerves and your "Peripheral Nervous System"
Most common to happen in a limb....arm or leg...but over time can spread.
There is no cure.....
They call it a Disease....I call it a Condition.....
Cancer is a Disease.....I can not die from this......
I am not one to give up...not when I know this did not have to happen...and it did not have to be
Ignored and not addressed as soon as the surgeon knew there was a problem.....
I put my Trust in this man.....
He Can Not say he had no idea of my symptoms as during the same time he was treating me he was treating another women with the same condition......
May 15th was getting closer and closer.....
So I continued calling firm after firm....leaving messages....talking to secretaries.....going directly to offices but unable to be seen....I did get a few offices to read the medical records to get rejected with the reason being......
"we looked over your surgical records and we see no wrong doing"......
I was not able to speak to these people who are suppose to protect us after harm is done....
It was all third party discussions.....
Yes.. I was starting to get very emotional on the phone....
I saw my life as I knew it changing forever and no one cared.....People who make a lot of money....
40% of what is recovered wanted to do no work.....I was hit with ridiculous questions as if I were to blame....But I kept calling every single day....with my list sitting at the kitchen table.....Or calling from my car....
Same story over and over and over again.......
I was mentally falling apart.......I had to relive it every single day to people who were probably not even listening to a word.....
The #1 decline reason was.....
"You needed to contact us months ago....we don't have time to put together a case...your Statute is only months away..'
Why the famous Lawyer in Atlanta who specializes in this condition/injury held my medical records from November until the end of January is a mystery..... When I go the call on January 25th that they didn't have the time to handle the case it was devastating....
They wouldn't even refer me to anyone else...Told me to contact the Georgia Bar Association......
This Attorney had just won a case for a man with the same injury for a bit under 2 Million Dollars and the Jury awarded the man's wife an additional 2 Million for her.....She was Not injured in any way.
But they were Young and I ...although I don't agree......am old....
I called out of State..Alabama....South Carolina......I called NYC large firms.....I could not find anyone who practiced in Georgia.
And it appeared to me that 99% of Malpractice Attorneys in the State ALL went to the
State Law School....
I found only One who graduated from Rutgers Law In New Jersey......
Our Motherland as we call it......I figured I found a lawyer with Jersey Fight in them...
I spoke to his Paralegal for a few months and provided them with everything I found....
Inconsistencies....missing records on the Physicians Assistant who assisted in the surgery at the
Medical Board of Georgia....
I made a Complaint as their records never showed this person ever worked at the Surgeons
Office.....They are not required to let you know the outcome....
Mr. Rutgers Law kept all my records and I never heard a word from him to this day.....
I was sitting on my own copies of my records...What was I thinking.........
READ THE MEDICAL RECORDS YOU IDIOT!!!!!!
So I sat for hours scouring the records to see what all these lawyers were reading.....
Not one ever Asked me any questions about what was being read..,.To hear my story....
THE RECORDS WERE ALL GENERIC IN NATURE......
THAT'S CORRECT....
I was reading page after page after page....Probably over 300 pages....
They weren't talking about ME.....None of it......
No mention EVER of my foot feeling paralyzed even after the casts were removed...
It was finally mentioned in October of 2018 when saw I the Physicians Assistant instead of the doctor. He was the first to document it in the records....but that was 18 months later.....
Statements signed off by the surgeon on How I was able to Stand and put Weight on my foot and leg....with Little Pain..
I had my second surgery for the Toe reconstruction.... TWO DAYS before that recorded statement...... I was in a wheelchair with a full non-weight bearing cast on.....I couldn't even stand....
Surgical Records were Altered.....Was I going Crazy.....????
What in the World was I reading.....
Things done and written in detail during surgery that never happened.......
I was able to Confirm this through Insurance Codes and billing from Medicare and United Healthcare that the procedure he wrote so precisely right down to the length of time it took was never done.....
I contacted the Anesthesiologists billing department to see who was falsely stating this information...
Was it the the Surgeon or the Anesthesiologist...
It was the Surgeon.....
Not billed for.....just never done.....but documented as being done....
What was he hiding,.......
I mentioned all of this is my last post.....
I will end with this.... for you to think about.... and hopefully you will be as shocked as I was....,
I thank you if you had the patience to take the time to read all this....Like I said if I can inform just one person who's life might be made whole again..... if even just Mentally....It was worth my time to write this....
In speaking to one law firm in Texas I had a women who was a Doctor who worked for the Malpractice Lawyer....when I told her what I had found tracing back the billing codes and calling the insurance carriers to find false information all over my records.....she said this.....
"THIS PRACTICE IS NOT UNCOMMON IN PROBABLY 90% OF SURGEONS WHO DO THE SAME PROCEDURE OVER AND OVER....AT THE END OF THE DAY IF THEY ARE BUSY OR TIRED THEY WILL SIMPLY "COPY AND PASTE" SOMEONE ELSE'S RECORDS INTO YOUR FILE TO SAVE THEM TIME".......
I could write a book about the entire ordeal....So much corruption between the doctors.....
So much greed and lack of empathy for the injured by the lawyers....
So many lives ruined with no recourse.....
This is Happening every day....Everywhere..........
It would be a New York Times Best Seller.....
Most of you know I love to entertain with my writings and the Family exploits....I like to make fun of myself for being a bit wacky.....and of course my crazy cast of characters....
No one needs to hear how bad life can be...it's much better to laugh even if it's at yourself.....
I hesitated to document this but I felt I had to.....
Not for Sympathy but to Educate....
This needs to brought to someone's attention not to benefit me as my ship sailed on May 15th.....
But to help other people in the future who have had their lives turned upside down by unethical doctors...
The Two Year Statute Of Limitations from the date of the Incident is a Joke....
If the doctor that injures you strings you along and gets other people to agree that it takes time to heal when they are well aware they have caused you harm are simply running out your time.... to me that is CRIMINAL.........
I believe everything in Life Happens for a Reason.....This is not the first time I have had an injury at the hands of other people....I have never sued or made a formal complaint against anyone in my 68 years...I have always just moved on.....and figured it happened for a reason.
On May 1st of this year......14 days before my 2 year Statute of Limitations expired.....
FIVE Short Months after I was told I will be Disabled for the Rest of my Life....
I sat down at my Computer and I wrote a letter to the Surgeon...
It was time to "let it go"......After all it wasn't going to change the damage that was done...
I needed closure to move on with my life.....it was consuming my life.....
I mailed it the next day marked "Personal and Confidential......
I did not expect a response..........
His Integrity as a Man is Nonexistent......
He knew Nothing could be done to him at that point in time for what he did and how he kept quiet....
As my future was being taken away little by little.....
The Letter was not rude or insulting in any way....
I complimented his skill that he was able to straighten my foot....I told him of my disappointment in him....I didn't rush into this surgery....I "Chose" him after seeing many any others...
I thought he would FIX ME not HARM ME.....
In the end I asked that when he soon retires and has his own grandchildren and he gets to take them to Disneyland and to the Beach and take them on family vacations........He gets to travel with his wife....He gets to enjoy every day
as time gets shorter and shorter.... he worked hard and now it's time to enjoy the rest of his life......
All I asked was for him to just think of me during those times....... because I will be unable to enjoy any of those things......
I signed it simply....
From The Heart.....
Suzanne Adivari.......
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1 comment:
I just pick your blog up from Nana Diana Takes a Break....I read this today I will go back and read the previous post...but honestly the picture was enough to know "Something's is not right". My God. I believe every word you have written. Every word. My husband has been in and out of hospitals since Nov. fighting cancer. In the first stay so many drs came and went. The case worker told me , "if there's anything I can do for you let me know." I told her , "I want a list of every dr who came and went and why they were even in this room"...She said , with a big surprised look, "No one has ever asked for that." I never saw her again . They were all trying to get some of the insurance monies. I know not all are fakes but many are greedy. MY head was spinning and my tummy churning reading what you have been thru. So sorry , wish you could have sued them. Blessings to you, xoxo, Susie
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