3 Doctors Mistakes...13 Months Waiting

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Good Afternoon,

It has been a while since I have wrote. Things hectic with no worker's

compensation doctor's appointments and 13 months later finally I can

be told the truth from my own doctors.(non-worker's compensation related)

July 9th, 2005 I had a serious fall at work, I can't tell you how many

doctors later and a surgery in Sept 2005 on my left knee and

leg....Things were only getting worse.

I finally got answers, however, some of them were answered already

such as RSD, my one worker's comp doctor diagnosed me with it...then

he denied the fact, lost the records and test results.

After being treated in the emergency room in April 2006 for a fall due

to my left leg and knee giving out, I had now injured my right arm and

aldner nerve leaving me paralized in that arm and hand for nearly 4

months. The hospital referred me to a neurologist who is presently my

treating doctor. Worker's comp has stopped paying entirely for any

care for myself since January 2006. As you are all aware that medical

treatment does not come cheap..and not having insurance it is even

worse. After the fall and things were not improving with leg and

right arm now, my neurologist ordered 3 MRI's on on my cervical, one

on my back and the other one my left leg and knee again. 7 weeks went

by and we could not get anybody to even look at me in the Orthopedic

profession since I was worker comp. Finally, a break through...To make

this a short ending..I was shocked to find out that the surgery that

was to have been performed last September, 2005...was NOT! Nothing

was ever done, other than incissions made and what ever else he did

inside my knee other than to fix it. Never in my life could I have

imagined such an outcome..shock! When I had fallen back in July, one

doctor told me I bruised the knee and sent me back to work 40 hours a

week. Things were not getting better, pain was out of this world and

I had requested a new doctor. This is when he diagnosed me with a

shattered knee on the inner portion. Before surgery he explained to us

what was going to be done and recovery. Two, Three, Four months had

passed and the knee in fact was not getting better. Just more painful

and larger. What the MRI films have shown now...is comparing the

before injury, 4 months after the surgery, and the newest MRI that was

done the beginning of June...NOTHING WAS DONE..NOT ONLY WAS THE INNER

PORTION OF THE KNEE SHATTERED, BUT THE LEFT WAS SHATTERED AS WELL,

TENDONS AND MUSCLES TORN. I am shaking my head as I write this, only

because I still cannot believe this has happened.

So with me having RSD, and now a leg that was never repaired or

fixed...I have been stumbling around (very little walking due to

pain)for 13 months and now it is the process of the waiting game.

The two doctor's that are treating me now do not know when surgery can

be done due to the RSD pain and severity it has developed.

I have never cried so much in my life...I need support now more than

every. I needed to vent...as I sit and cry as I type this. How can

this happen in todays medical field? How can these worker's comp

doctor's get away with this. To think that I went through months and

months of physical therapy...crying during therapy..and made to do

more and more..on a SHATTERED leg!

Honestly, as well as all you are aware...believe it or not we do know

our bodies. I am beside myself...I have been sitting behind 4 walls

for nearly 13 months...without the ability to walk but maybe 5 minutes

at the most. I feel like a prisioner of my own home.

I cannot begin to tell you how many times I begged the doctors to

please, help me! There reply was, there is nothing wrong with you.

I don't want to sound like a broken record, but I needed to vent..vent

to other than know the amount of pain that we go through on a day to

day basis. I have requested help for counseling and was denied that

to. I felt like I was spinning circles and nobody was ever going to

listen.

It seems like every road block that was put up..I found..every time I

tried to get through it there was a concrete wall...and every time I

tried to climb it..it got taller. Never in my life have I felt so

helpless. My attorney in the worker's compensation claim wasn't even

believing me when I would talk with him...NOW HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT TO

SAY TO ME...AND I AM ANGRY. It is not easy hiring another attorney in

the work comp field. Since the laws have changed (from what I have

been told) the laws are there to protect the insurance companies and

not the patients. Sad isn't this? What keeps going through my mind is

this...People get put into jail everyday for abuse to animals...but

here I am a human being and basically I have been denied medical care

and you name it...and nothing is being done to these people that lied,

treated me a lied and so on.

If anyone has any input what so ever, I am most happy to read what you

have to say...think...feel? Right now I am such an open book as I do

not know which way to turn anymore. My worker's comp pay has stopped,

due to my attorney canceling an appointment I knew NOTHING about. His

reason was..He is just like the rest of the doctors, he will tell you

that there is nothing wrong with you and send you to work. When I

expressed huge concern, did he realize the consquences when he did

this (non-compliance with WC)for not treating with their doctor..his

reply was no.

So you all can only imagine my stress level is ready to explode! No

healthcare, waiting on healthcare that we are paying for (barely) and

no NO paychecks! I am getting scared as to how I will eat, pay the

electric bills, the rent..and the list goes on.

Thank you all so very much for reading this long drawn out story..it

is sometimes so much better for me to put this into words in black and

white. Of course then there is the fact that nobody can understand

the pain much less the other troubles.

Feeling very low in Florida....self worthlessness.

Please feel free to comment..I am in so much need of someone to talk

to....Thank you...hugs....Dee in Florida.